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18 Cards in this Set
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Charles A. Lindbergh
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-"The decades ultimate hero"
-stunt flyer and airmail pilot -flew Spirit of St. Louis -1st aviator to fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean |
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Nativism
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-movement to limit immigration
-first appeared in 1800s -revived after the war |
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Flapper
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-a youthful women
-dancing women with her boots open |
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Calvin Coolidge
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-Hardings running mate in 1920 election
-remembered for being involved in famous Boston Police Strike |
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Assembly Line
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-an organized production line
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Harlem Renaissance
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-literary life flourished
-happened in Harlem, New York -African American writers started to thrive and be appriciated -"mutual enrichment" |
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fundamentalism
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-religious movement
-belief that every biblical story was literally true -appeared between 1909 and 1914 |
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Marcus Garvey
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-notable African American
-native Jamaican -estab. a headquarters for his organization [Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)] -his org. sought to improve African American self-respect -jailed on fraud charges for overselling stock in a steamship line enterprise |
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censorship
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-Prevention of disturbing or painful thoughts or feelings from reaching consciousness except in a disguised form (definition from American Heritage Online)
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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-two Italian immigrants
-connected with a murder unjustly -accused of carrying guns-the same ones used in a murder -convicted and sentenced to die |
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Scopes Trial
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-trial of John T. Scopes that accused him of teaching evolution when the Bible was only dictated to be taught
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Jazz Age
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-age in the 1920s in which Jazz was a popular genre of the music industry
-the beginning of many different varieties of music -African Americcans thrived and were appriciated |
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Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
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-white supremacist organization
-WASPs -frequently lynched people who weren't White Anglo Saxon Protestants |
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general strike
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an action in which many unions participate in a strike as a show of woker unity
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uniformity of product
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-interchangeable parts
-same product |
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Warren G. Harding
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-Ohio Senator
-republican conservative -overwhelmed the Democratic ticket with ideas -won the 1920 election |
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Anti-Semetic
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-a person who bears hostility and descriminates against Jewish people
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red scare
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-fear of communism, socialism, or other so-called extreme ideas
-it gripped the nation |