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37 Cards in this Set
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Model T
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Henry Ford mass produced these cars.
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Al Capone
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He was the leader of the Chicago mob empire.
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Samuel Insull
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He was an investor who purchased utilities and railroads.
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19th Amendment
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This amendment granted wome the right to vote.
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Babe Ruth
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He was a very famous baseball player for the Yankees.
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Ernest Hemingway
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He was an author that was preoccupied with violence.
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Roaring Twenties
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Crime rate and the popularity of sports grew during this time.
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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These two Italian anarchists were found guilty of murder without a trial.
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Scopes Trial
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This dealt with the teaching of evolution in school.
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Clarence Darrow
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He was the defense attorney in the Scopes Trial.
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KKK
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This group reamirged and gained political power.
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Fundamentalism
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This was the reaffirmation of traditonal Protestant beliefs.
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Teapot Dome
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Two oil promoters gave Fall nearly four hundred thousand in loans and bribes.
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Albert Fall
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He was the Secretary of the Interior under Hoover.
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Al Smith
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He was the Democratic nominee for the election of 1928.
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National Women's Party
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This group fought for women's rights.
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Equal Rights Amendment
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This was a women's suffrage amendment that didn't pass.
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Charles Lindbergh
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He was the first to fly across the Atlantic.
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A Mitchell Palmer
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He was the leader against communists during the Red Scare.
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Ezra Pound
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She was the first to swim across the English Channel.
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TS Eliot
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He was a poet that wrote of the dispair after the war.
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Sinclair Lewis
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He wrote about how small town America was dull.
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F Scott Fitzgerald
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He wrote This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby.
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Warren Harding
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He was a Republican president during the twenties that urged a return to normalcy.
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Calvin Coolidge
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He was a Republican president during the twenties that didn't intervene with business.
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Herbert Hoover
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He was a Republican president during the twenties that helped make industry more efficient.
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"Normalcy"
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This was the theme for the Republican administrations.
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18th Amendment
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This was the prohibition amendment.
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Sheppard-Towner Act
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This provided federal funding for maternal and child care.
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Effects of Organized Labor
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Businesses were more efficient because of this.
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National Origins Quota Act
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This limited immigration from Europe.
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Fordney-McCumber Act
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This raised tariffs in the country.
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Yellow Dog Contracts
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This is when an employee agrees to not join a union.
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Marucs Garvey
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He was a radical and firm black nationalist.
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Red Scare
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Many Americans were scared of the spread of communism.
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Volstead Act
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This act prohibited the sale and consumption of liquor.
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Andrew Mellon
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He was the Secretary of the Treasury that wanted to lower taxes.
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