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Red Scare
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A wave of anticommunist, antiforeign, and antilabor hysteria that swept over America at the end of WWI. It resulted in the deportation of many alien residents and the violation of the civil liberties of many of its victims. ***Palmer***
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National Orgins Quota Act
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This 1924 law established a quota system to regulate the influx of immigrants to America. The system restricted the new immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and Asia. It also reduced the annual total of immigrants.
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Scopes trial
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Also called the monkey trial, the 1924 Scopes trial was a contest between modern liberalism and religious fundamentalism. John T. Scopes was on trial for teaching Darwinian evolution in defiance of a Tennessee state law. He was found guilt and fined $100. On appeal, Scopess conviction was later set aside on a technicality.
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18th amendment
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The ban of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the US. It was repealed by the 21st amendment in 1933. while it was in effect, it reduced national consumption of alcohol, but it was inconsistently enforced and was often evaded, especially in the cities.
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Teapot Dome scandal
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A 1924 scandal in which Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall was cinvicted of accepting bribes in exchange for leasing government-owned oil lands in Wyoming (Teapot Dome) and California (Elks Hill) to private oil businessmen.
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Model T
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The Ford Model T is an automobile that was produced by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company from 1908 through 1927. The Model T set 1908 as the historic year that the automobile became popular. First automobile, manufactured by the Ford Motor Company of Henry Ford, to be priced reasonably enough to be sold to the masses.
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Al Capone
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Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947) was an American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging of liquor and other illegal activities during the Prohibition Era of the 1920s and 1930s.
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19th amendment
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prohibits each state and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920.
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Ernest Hemingway
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an American writer and journalist. During his lifetime he had seven novels, six collections of short stories, and two works of non-fiction published, with a further three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction
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Clarence Darrow
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an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Bobby Franks (1924) and defending John T. Scopes in the Scopes Trial (1925), in which he opposed William Jennings Bryan (statesman, noted orator, and three time presidential candidate for the Democratic Party).
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KKK
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the name of several past and present far right hate groups in the United States whose avowed purpose is to protect the rights and further the interests of White Americans of Protestant faith by violence and intimidation
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Fundamentalism
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a belief in a strict adherence to a set of basic principles (often religious in nature), sometimes as a reaction to perceived doctrinal compromises with modern social and political life.
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Albert Fall
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a United States Senator from New Mexico and the Secretary of the Interior under President Warren G. Harding, infamous for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal.
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Al Smith
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an American politician who was elected the 42nd Governor of New York four times, and was the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in 1928.
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National Women's Party
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a women's organization founded in 1916 that fought for women's rights during the early 20th century in the United States, particularly for the right to vote on the same terms as men.
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Equal Rights Amendment
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a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution which was intended to guarantee that equal rights under any federal, state, or local law could not be denied on account of sex. Fell 3 states short of passing.
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Charles Lindbergh
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an American aviator, author, inventor and explorer.
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"Palmer Raids"
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attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport left-wing radicals, especially anarchists, from the United States. The raids and arrests occurred in November 1919 and January 1920 under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer.
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Ezra Pound
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an American expatriate poet, critic and intellectual who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in the first half of the 20th century
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TS Eliot
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an Anglo-American poet, playwright, and literary critic, arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century
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Sinclair Lewis
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United States novelist who satirized middle-class America in his novel Main Street. an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright(1885-1951)
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F Scott Fitzgerald
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an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers
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Warren Harding
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29th President of the United States; two of his appointees were involved in the Teapot Dome scandal (1865-1823)....
A Republican from Ohio, Harding was an influential newspaper publisher |
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Calvin Coolidge
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elected vice president and succeeded as 30th President of the United States when Harding died in 1923 (1872-1933)....
the 30th President of the United States (1923-1929). A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state |
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Herbert Hoover
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31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for reelection by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964).....
As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted government intervention under the rubric "economic modernization". In the presidential election of 1928, Hoover easily won the Republican nomination, despite having no previous elected office experience..... America was prosperous and optimistic at the time, leading to a landslide victory for Hoover over Democrat Al Smith. |
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sheppard-towner act
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a U.S. Act of Congress providing federal funding for maternity and child care. It was sponsored by senators Morris Sheppard and Horace Mann Towner, and signed by President Warren G. Harding on November 23, 1921.
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Yellow dog contracts
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is an agreement between an employer and an employee in which the employee agrees, as a condition of employment, not to be a member of a labor union
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Marcus Garvey
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National Hero of Jamaica (17 August 1887 10 June 1940) was a publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, Black Nationalist, Pan-Africanist, and orator. ...
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Volstead Act
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formally National Prohibition Act, which reinforced the prohibition of alcohol in the United States, was named for Andrew Volstead, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, which oversaw its passage...
the legislation defined intoxicating liquors as beverages containing more than one-half of one percent alcohol and gave federal authorities the power to prosecute violations |
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Andrew Mellon
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an American banker, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector and Secretary of the Treasury from March 4, 1921 until February 12, 1932.
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Samuel Insull
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an Anglo-American investor based in Chicago who was known for purchasing utilities and railroads. He contributed to creating an integrated electrical infrastructure in the United States....
fled the United States under indictment for fraud, extradited and found innocent in 1934, 16 July 1938 |
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Babe Ruth
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United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948)
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Organized Labor
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•A trade union (or labor/labour union) is an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals like better working conditions. ...
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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were Italian immigrants who were accused and convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in Massachusetts....
They died in an electric chair on August 23, 1927. |
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Roaring Twenties
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-sports, like golf and baseball, became much more part of national popular culture.
-Decade was notable for obsessive interest in celebrities. -Sex became and all-consuming topic of interest in popular entertainment. |
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"Normalcy"
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-Conservatism: Smaller govt, less govt intervention, legislation of morality.
-Nativism: (gave rise to KKK) america is for americans. [WASP] -Isolationism .... was U.S. Presidential candidate Warren Harding’s campaign promise in the election of 1920. |
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Fordney-McCumber Tariff
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raised American tariffs in order to protect factories and farms. Congress displayed a pro-business attitude in passing the tariff and in promoting foreign trade through providing huge loans to Europe, which in turn bought more American goods....
60% tariff |
