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16 Cards in this Set
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Red Scare |
The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920. |
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Palmer Raids |
The mass arrests and deportation of radicals at the height of the post–World War I era red scare. |
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Teapot Dome Scandal |
A bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. |
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Assembly Line |
A series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled. |
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Volstead Act |
Meant to carry out the intent of the Eighteenth Amendment, which established prohibition in the United States. |
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Flappers |
A fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior. |
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Charles Lindbergh |
An American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist. |
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Scopes Trial |
High school teacher John Thomas Scopes was charged with violating Tennessee's law against teaching evolution instead of the divine creation of man. The trial was the first to be broadcasted on live radio. |
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Jazz |
a type of music of black American origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm, emerging at the beginning of the 20th century. |
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Harlem Renaissance |
A cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. |
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Lost Generation |
The generation reaching maturity during and just after World War I, a high proportion of whose men were killed during those years. |
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Margin Buying |
The purchase of an asset by paying the margin and borrowing the balance from a bank or broker. |
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Black Thursday |
A then-record number of shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange by panicked investors, marking the onset of the stock market crash that precipitated the Great Depression. |
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Smoot-Hawley Tariff |
An act sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley and signed into law on June 17, 1930. The act raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods. |
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Rugged Individualism |
A phrase used often by Herbert Hoover during his time as president. |
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New Deal |
The New Deal was designed to improve conditions for persons suffering in the Great Depression. |
