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39 Cards in this Set
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Model T
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Tin Lizzie, anyone could afford it.
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Al Capone
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A 20's gangster who made his money off liquor.
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Samuel Insull
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Basically created the electronic infrastructure of America.
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19th Amendment
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Gave women the right to vote. Inspired feminism to go to even greater heights.
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Babe Ruth
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A baseball player.
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Ernest Hemingway
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An "exile" writer, wrote Old Man and the Sea and several others. Part of America that hated consumerism/materialsim.
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Roaring Twenties
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The period of conservatism after World War One. Pre-progressive ideas.
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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Two Italian Robbers who were deprived of all due process rights and executed when it wasn't even certain that they did the crime.
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Scopes Trial
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A trial involving evolutionism and creationism being taught in schools.
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Clarence Darrow
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Defended Scopes in the Monkey Trial
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KKK
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The Ku Klux Klan, an anti-black anti-immigrant anti-catholic anti-semetic organization.
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Fundamentalism
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Back to the beginnings--pre progressivist ideals.
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Teapot Dome
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A scandal where Harding's secretary of the interior gave federal lands to his friends.
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Albert Fall
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The secretary of interior involved in the teapot dome.
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Al Smith
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Democratic presidential nominee against Harding. (Battle of religion)
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National Women’s Party
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Lobbied not for women's rights but specifically woman suffrage amendment.
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Equal Rights Amendment
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So women could no longer be discriminated against.
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Charles Lindbergh
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A pilot who flew across the pacific to Paris
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A Mitchell Palmer – “Palmer Raids”
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Conducted the raids that deprived many innocent legal immigrants of their due process and just deported them.
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Ezra Pound
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A poet whose most notable feature is that he didn't use meter
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TS Eliot
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Disillusioned writer.
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Sinclair Lewis
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Disillusioned writer.
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F Scott Fitzgerald
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Yet another disillusioned writer.
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Warren Harding
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President elected after world war one. "Normalcy".
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Calvin Coolidge
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A true laissez faire president. Thought his job was just to steady the ship.
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Herbert Hoover
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Known as a philanthropist for the Bulgarians before his election. Brought the US into the great depression.
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“Normalcy”
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Isolationism, Conservatism, nationalism.
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Sinclair Lewis
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Writer who was critical of capitalism.
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18th Amendment
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Made way for the Volstead Act
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Sheppard-Towner Act
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Protected maternity in the workplace.
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Effects of Organized Labor
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The Red Scare
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National Origins Quota Act
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Made a quota for numbers of immigrants per each country that could occur before immigration was blocked.
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Fordney-McCumber Act
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Raised tariffs to a historic high (protectionism)
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Yellow dog contracts
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A part of a contract where an employee states that they won't be in a union.
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National Womens Party
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Lobbied for women's rights in general.
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Marcus Garvey
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"back to africa" leader
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Red Scare
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Fear of Communism.
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Volstead Act
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Created the prohibition.
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Andrew Mellon
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Created a tax system after World War One.
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