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17 Cards in this Set
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Sacco and Vanzetti |
two men wrongly accused of a communist crime, immigrants who were considered radicals |
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Marcus Garvey |
A black man who taught black pride, blacks shouldn’t associate with whites, blacks were superior to whites. Told Blacks that they don’t need whites for they are better.
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Warren G. Harding |
president after WW1, campaign slogan: “return to normalcy”, scandal. Couldn’t control cabinet. Teapot Dome scandal. Return to normalcy. |
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A. Mitchell Palmer |
Attorney general of United States, led Palmer raids during the Red Scare: breaking into meetings, and deporting “immigrants” Checking for illegal communists. |
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Albert Fall |
teapot dome scandal. Secretary of Interior.Leasing oil to big companies. Big scandal |
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Calvin Coolidge |
“Silent Cal” President after death of president Warren G. Harding, big business little government regulation, Republican. |
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Henry Ford |
created the Ford T Model, group of different skilled people, working together in a line, designed assembly line which many companies used. |
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Charles Lindbergh |
pilot flew from New York to Paris (by himself) over the Atlantic Ocean (his baby was stolen and searched for by the new FBI) |
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Babe Ruth |
Famous baseball player for New York Yankees. Traded from Red Sox, he cursed the Red Sox. “The Curse of the Bambino.” |
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Harlem Renaissance |
Duke Ellington (pianist), Louis Armstrong (trumpet), Bessie Smith (vocalist), Langston Hughes (poet/writer) |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (wrote The Great Gatsby), Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis |
authors; known as “Lost Generation” and ex-patriots |
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Al Capone (Prohibition and organized crime) |
sold illegal alcohol, most famous mobster, from Chicago, died in Alcatraz No one could prove that he has done anything illegal but he was arrested for tax evasion. |
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The Ku Klux Klan |
Nationalist group of people that killed, beat, ect. People of a different race or immigrants. And also people of different religions (Catholics) |
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John Scopes |
Taught evolution (humans evolution over time), brought to court in Tennessee, science teacher in Tennessee |
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William Jennings Bryan vs. Clarence Darrow (John Scopes’s lawyer) |
the legendary defense lawyers that were in the Scopes Trial |
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Herbert Hoover |
31st President of the United States and was a professional engineer, raised as a Quaker |
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J Edgar Hoover |
head of the FBI, searching for baby of Charles Lindbergh. |
