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27 Cards in this Set
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William Faulkner
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Turned his attention to a fictional chronicle of an Imaginary, history rich deep south country, "The Sound and the Fury" and "as I lay dying"
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Sacco and Vanzetti case
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Nicholas Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted of murdering Massachusetts pay master and guard. Judge and jury prejudiced, believed to be Communist
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Ku Flux Klan
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antiforeign, nativist, against Catholics, blacks, Jewish, pacifists, communists, internationalists, revolutionist, bootleger, gambling, adultery, birth control
Extremist, ultraconservative, Bible belt |
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Emergency Quota Act
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1921, new comers from Europe were restricted in any given year to a definite quota, 3% of people of their nationality who had been living in the U.S. in 1910
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Alexander Mitchel Palmer
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was Attorney General of the United States from 1919 to 1921. He directed the controversial Palmer Raids. Promoted the red scare, witch he and his followers hunted down and booted out supposed socialist/communist
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John Dewey
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Promoted the educational ideology of "learning by doing "
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John T. Scopes
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Teacher in Dayton Tennessee. Charged by Tennessee state for violating the Butlers act, witch prohibited the teaching of evolution in schools. Led to the "monkey" trail.
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William Jennings Bryan
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Lawyer on the prosecution side for the "monkey" trail. Deeply conservative
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Clarence Darrow
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Opposition as deferent lawyer in the "monkey" trail
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Andrew Mellon
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Secretary of Treasure, favored rapid expansion of capital investment. Wanted new ingenious machines powered by cheap energy such as oil
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Bruce Barton
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"the man nobody knows" claimed jesus christ was the best adman of all time.
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Henry Ford
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Perfected the assembly line. Claimed a ford rolled off the line every ten seconds. Mass produced his model t ford
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Frederick W. Taylor
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Tennis player, sought to eliminate wasted motion. "father of scientific manegment"
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Margaret Sanger
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Feminist who coined the term "birth control"' fought activitly for it.
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Immigration Quota Act
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1924 definite quota changed from 3 to 2% national origin base changed from 1910 to 1890
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Volstead Act
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supplemented the 18th amendment, prohibition
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Birth of a Nation
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glorified the Kkk, one of the first full length movies
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Al Capone
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Murderous booze distributor, public enemy number one, st. Valentine's day 1929
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Charles A. Limbergh
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first solo flight across the Atlantic, Spirit of St. Louis, "Lucky Lindy"
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W.C. Handy, "Jelly Roll" Joseph King Oliver
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various jazz musicians
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Sigmund Frued
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Psychoanalysist, saw dreams as repressed sexual desires. Sanger and his theologies help to lead to "neckers" or open PDA among the nations youth
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H. L. Mencken
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"Bad Boy of Baltimore" wrote in "American Mercury" assailed marriage , patriotism, the American middle class.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Minnesota writer who came a celeberity overnight. Wrote the "Great Gatsby"
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Ernest Hemmingway
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Blew his brains out with a shotgun. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954
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Sinclair Lewis
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1930, he became the first writer from the United States to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters."
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Langston Hughes
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The Weary Blues, writer, Harley Rennasaince
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Langston Hughes
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The Weary Blues, writer, Harley Rennasaince
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