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20 Cards in this Set
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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Sacco and Vanzetti were immigrants and anarchists executed for for a 1920 murder.
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Uniformity of Product
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makeing sure al of the products are the same.
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General Strike
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A strike in which many unions participate in order to show worker unity.
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Censorship
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Making sure nothing bad comes from music.
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Red Scare
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Fear of communism, socialism, or so called extreme ideas.
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Ku Klux Klan
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Organization formed in the south in 1866 which used lynching and violence to intimidate and control african americans and others.
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Warren G. Harding
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Thirty-ninth president of the untied states: presided over a short administration marke by corruption.
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Charles A Lindbergh
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Aviator who became and international hero when he made the fist solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927.
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Calvin Coolidge
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Thirieth president of the untied states 1923-1920, promoted big buisness and opposed social aid.
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Evolution
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When a certain race grows and evolves over time and becomes something else.
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Nativism
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Practice favoring native-born citizens
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Assembly line
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A group of workers that put together parts to a product to help the rate of production go up.
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Harlem Renaissance
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Period in the early 1900's during which the literary, musical, and artistic expression of African Americans blossomed in Harlem.
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Flappers
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A type pf young woman having a straight, slim silhouette and fondness for dancing and brash actions: a symbl of the jazz age
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Calvin Coolidge
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Thirieth president of the untied states 1923-1920, promoted big buisness and opposed social aid.
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Anti-Semitic
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Hostility against Jews
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Marcus Garvey
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African American leader from 1919 10 1926 who urged african americans to return to the "motherland" of africa; provided inspration for "black pride" movements.
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Fudamentalism
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Christian religous movementbased on pamphlets issued between 1909 and 1914; holds that every word in the bible was inspried by god.
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Jazz Age
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Term for the 1920's, a period marked for the great popularity of Jazz music, which was linked to changes in manners, morals and fashions.
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Scopes trial
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Tennessee trial of 1925 that challenged the law against teaching evolution in puplic schools
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