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16 Cards in this Set
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nativism |
prejudice against foreign-born people |
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isolationism |
staying our of all foreign affairs |
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communism |
an economic and political system based on a single-party government ruled by dictatorship |
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anarchists |
people who oppose any form of government |
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Sacco and Vanzetti |
two italian shoe peddlers who were arrested because there was a robbery and because the crimanals looked italian. they shouldn't have been arrested because of what they look like |
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quota system |
established the maximun number of people who could enter the United States from foreign countries |
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John L. Lewis |
new leader of the United Mine Workers of America |
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Charles Evans Hughes |
urged that no more warships be built for 10 years |
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Warren G. Harding |
elected president in 1921 because the public wanted things to go back to normal, like before the Progressive Era |
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Fordney-McCumber Tariff |
raised taxes on some imports 60% |
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Ohio Gange |
Harding's poker playing cronies |
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Teapot Dome Scandal |
Teapot Dome scandal n. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall’s secret leasing of oil-rich public land to private companies in return for money and land. |
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Albert B. Fall |
a close friend of oil executives |
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Calvin Coolidge |
president in the 1920's who fit into the pro-busisness spirit |
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urban sprawl |
cities spreading in all directions |
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installment plan |
enabled people to buy goods over an extended period without having to put down much money at the time of purchase |
