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50 Cards in this Set
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Sacco & Vanzetti
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two Italian immigrants accused of participating in a robbery at a South Braintree, Massachusetts, factory in which a security guard was killed
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Anarchists
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people who dream of a society in which government, churches, and private property have been abolished, and do this with violence.
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Red Scare
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Flappers
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young, sexually liberated women
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Jazz Age
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because of jazz it was a time of revolt against moral rules inherited from the nineteenth century.
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Roaring Twenties
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Encompasses all (Flappers ect.) it was a time of revolt against moral rules inherited from the nineteenth century.
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Speakeasies
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nightclubs that sold liquor and had flappers
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Enrico Caruso
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great opera tenor that is sometimes called the first modern celebrity
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Charlie Chaplin
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One of the first really famous film actors, prince of silent movies.
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Lincoln Steffens:
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wrote the Shame of the Cities, telling us how bad we are to the immigrants and how we aren’t taking care of our cities.
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The “Golden age”
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The ____ of American farming had reached its peak during World War 1
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The Man Nobody Knows
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a 1925 best seller by advertising executive Bruce Barton, portrayed Jesus Christ as “the greatest advertiser of his day… a virile go-getting he-man of business,”
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“Welfare Capitalism”
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a more socially conscious kind of business leadership. provided their employees with private pensions and medical insurance plans, job security, and a greater workplace safety
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Public Opinion and The Phantom Public
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both books published in 1920’s by Walter Lippmann.claimed that voters were well informed
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Middle Town
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by Robert and Helen Lynd a classic study of life in Muncie, Indiana, a typical community in the American Heartland
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Muller v. Oregon
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Cutting Work hours for women
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Teapot Dome
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McNary-Haugen Bill
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Twice vetoed. This bill sought to have the government purchase agriculture products for sale overseas in order to raise prices.
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Will Rogers
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Fordney-McCumber Tariff
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1922 raised taxes on imported goods to their highest in history, a repudiation of Wilson’s principle of promoting free trade
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Red Line Agreement
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1928, British, French, and American oil companies divided oil-producing regions in the Middle East and Latin American among themselves
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Sandinistas
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a popular movement that overthrew Somoza in 1979. Communists followed
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“Free Mob”
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Americans rebellions that feared the reaction of their country men
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Hays Code
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A sporadically enforced set of guidelines that prohibited movies from depicting nudity, long kisses, adultery, and barred scripts that portrayed good people in a negative light or criminals sympathetically
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The Miracle
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the movie that catholic found inappropriate
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American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
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fought for the rights of the constitution
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Schenck V. United States
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banning the right to speak out during the time of war
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Ulysses
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Novel by James Joyce’s
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“Modernists”
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people who sought to integrate science and religion and adapt Christianity to the new secular culture
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Billy Sunday
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a talented professional baseball player, who became a revivalist preacher, drew huge crowds with a highly theatrical preaching style talking of sins, from Darwinism to alcohol, have said that he preached to 100 million people during his life time, more than anyone else in history.
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“Bootleggers”
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people that supplied the legal Alcohol to the illegal speakeasies during prohibition
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Scopes trial
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a teacher that taught evolution at school and found guilty and find. Trial in which two different American Belief’s were tested, between strong Christian believers and evolutionists
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Alice Paul
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lead the women movement
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Sheppard-Towner Act
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a major achievement of the maternalist reformers that had provided federal assistance to programs for infant and child health
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Charleston
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a “wild” dance that white people danced that had been had long popular in black communities
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Clara Bow
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most well known flapper, a sexually charged Hollywood actor the “It’ Girl”
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Rudolph Valentino
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the original onscreen “Latin Lover.” When he died of a sudden illness many women tried to flood the funeral home.
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William Jennings Bryan
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believed in no evolution. called to the stand as an “expert witness” on the Bible in the Scopes trial. He literally believed everything the Bible said
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Oregon
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in 1922 became the only state ever to require all students to attend public schools
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“Common Man”
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the view point of who is populating america and at that time being white, Anglo Saxon, Christians etc.
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“Cultural Pluralism”
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a phrase used to describe a society that gloried in ethnic diversity rather than attempting to suppress it
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Meyer V. Nebraska
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prohibiting teaching in a language other than English
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“Slumming”
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the 1920’s became famous for this, groups of whites visiting Harlem’s dance halls, jazz clubs, and speakeasies in search of exotic adventures
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Cotton Club
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Excluded black customers and employed only light-skinned dancers its renowned chorus line
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Dixie to Broadway
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a show that featured great black entertainers
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American Individualism:
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we respect individualism. we can not stop you from being rich
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Black Tuesday
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the day the stock market crashed
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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Hoover signed this, which loaned money to failing banks, railroads, and other businesses
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Federal Home Loan Bank
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offered aid to home owners threatened with foreclosure
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"New Negro"
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