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36 Cards in this Set
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Model T
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Ford's Most Famous Car
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Al Capone
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Famous Chicago Gangster
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Samuel Insull
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Man responsible for the US electrical network
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19th Amendment
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Women's Right to Vote
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Babe Ruth
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Famous baseball player
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Ernest Hemingway
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Famous American author.
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Roaring Twenties
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The 1920's in America
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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Two men who were accused of murder and convicted of radical beliefs
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Scopes Trial
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Evolution trial
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Clarence Darrow
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Famous lawyer at the Scopes trial
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KKK
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Ku Klux Klan- white supremacist organization
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Fundamentalism
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Return to religious literalism
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Teapot Dome
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Land scandal- Sec. of Int. giving away public land to oil companies
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Albert Fall
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Teapot Dome guy
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Al Smith
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Man who ran against Hoover
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National Women's Party
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What it says on the tag
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Equal Rights Amendment
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All Americans must be equal in all ways
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Charles Lindburgh
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Famous for flying his plane over the Atlantic
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A. Mitchell Palmer
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Crazy anti-communist radical
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Ezra Pound
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Famous black poet
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TS Eliot
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Famous black writer
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Sinclair Lewis
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One of the decade's great writers
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F Scott Fitzgerald
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Wrote about rich people
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Warren Harding
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American President- "return to normalcy"
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Herbert Hoover
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American president. Later went crazy and founded CIA and FBI
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"Normalcy"
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Isolationism, nativism, conservatism
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18th Amendment
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Prohibition
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Sheppard-Towner Act
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Act for pregnant women
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Effects of Organized Labor
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Not a lot in the 1920s.
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National Origins Quota Act
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150,000 immigrants a year, most Anglo-Saxon
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Fourdney-McCumber Act
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Huge tariff
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Yellow Dog Contracts
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Employee agrees not to be a member of a labor union
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Marcus Garvey
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Founder of UNIA
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Red Scare
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Palmer started it, raided communists and radicals, and foreigners in general
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Volstead Act
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prohibited many types of alcohol
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Andrew Mellon
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Secretary who did some awesome stuff
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