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16 Cards in this Set
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Red Scare |
The promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism |
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Palmer Raids |
Mass arrests and deportations of suspected communists |
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Teapot Dome Scandal |
A bribery incident when Warren G. Harding was president 1921 to 1922 |
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Assembly Line |
A series of people or machinery where a succession of the same items are made consecutively |
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Volstead Act |
The national prohibition act that made consuming alcohol illegal |
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Flappers |
(1920s) A fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself no matter what society thinks |
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Charles Lindbergh |
Made the first transcontinental flight from the U.S. to France |
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Scopes Trial |
A substitute high school teacher was charged with teaching evolution in a tennessee school |
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Jazz |
Music originating from black culture in North America that crossed cultural lines in the 1920s |
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Harlem Renaissance |
The name given to the social, cultural, and artistic explosion in Harlem during the 1920s |
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Lost Generation |
The generation reaching maturity during and right after the first world war |
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Margin Buying |
Buying the margin and paying the rest from a loan from a banker or stock broker |
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Black Thursday |
On October 24th, 1929 the largest amounts of stocks were sold in one day by panicked investors that started the great depression |
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Smoot-Hawley Tariff |
An act that raised taxes on over 20,000 imported goods |
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Rugged Individualism |
A term coined by Herbert Hoover who believed the government shouldn't assist anyone because they can assist themselves |
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New Deal |
A series of programs including social security that were introduced by FDR that combated the great depression |
