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Model T
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Marked the first key step towards mass production. Fifteen Million of them were produced by 1927. Ford closed the assembly line at Highland Park. Model A was now being constructed at River Rouge. By the mid-1920s, the price of the Model T had dropped from $950 to $290.
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Al Capone
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was an Italian-American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate. Known as the "Capones", the group was dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging liquor, and other illegal activities such as prostitution, in Chicago from the early 1920s to 1931.
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Samuel Insull
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was 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. He was also responsible for the building of the Chicago Civic Opera House in 1929.
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19th Amendment
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to the United States Constitution 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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Babe Ruth
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A national idol, hitting 60 home runs.
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Ernest Hemingway
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A novelist who was also an exile. He sought redemption from the modern plight in the romantic individualism of his heroes. Preoccupied with violence, he wrote of men alienated from society who found a sense of identity in their own courage. His own experiences made him a legendary figure.
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Roaring Twenties
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Sports were on the rise including baseball, boxing, and football, Crime rose. Prohibition ushered speakeasies, bootleggers, and bathtub gin. Sex became a popular topic.
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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Two Italian aliens in Massachusetts, arrested in May 1920 for a payroll robbery and murder. They both died in the electric chair on August 23, 1927. Their fate symbolized the bigotry and intolerance that lasted through the 1920s
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Scopes Trial
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was an American legal case in 1925 in which high school biology teacher John Scopes was accused of violating the state's Butler Act which made it unlawful to teach evolution. Scopes was found guilty, but the verdict was overturned on a technicality and he was never brought back to trial.
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Clarence Darrow
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was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. Defended Scopes in the Scopes Trial. Loved to defend unpopular causes, labor activists, political radicals, and murder suspects
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KKK
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Founded by Colonel William J Simmons. Only native born, white, gentile Americans could join. Anglo-Saxon Protestant men joined. Hatred of blacks, aliens, Jews, and Catholics. Gained control of the legislatures in Texas, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Indiana.
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Fundamentalism
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Christian fundamentalists campaigned against the teaching of evolution in the public schools. Baptist and Methodist churches continued to hold onto their old faith.
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Teapot Dome
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was an unprecedented bribery scandal and investigation during the White House administration of United States President Warren G. Harding. Two oil promoters gave Fall $400,000 in loads and bribes; in return, he helped them secure leases on naval oil reserves in California and Wyoming.
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Albert Fall
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Received $400,000 in loads and bribes; in return, he helped them secure leases on naval oil reserves in California and Wyoming. Also, he was the Secretary of Interior
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Al Smith
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Governor of new York. Withdrew from the Democrat candidates
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National Women’s Party
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led by Alice Paul. Lobbied for full equality of women under the law. Succeeded in having an Equal Rights Amendment introduced to Congress
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Equal Rights Amendment
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stated "Men and Women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction."
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Charles Lindbergh
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Solo flight across the English Channel
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A Mitchell Palmer – “Palmer Raids”
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Had a bomb shatter the front of his home. Led the attack on aliens. A Quaker and progressive, he abandoned his early liberalism to launch a massive roundup of foreign-born radicals. Federal agents seized suspects anarchists and communists and held them for deportation with no regard for due process of the law.
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Ezra Pound
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A poet who discarded rhyme and meter in a search for clear, cold images that conveyed reality. He reacted against WWI, expressing a deep regret for the tragic waste of a whole generation in defense of a "botched civilization".
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TS Eliot
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A poet who became a British subject, displayed even more profound despair. In The Waste Land, he evoked images of fragmentation and sterility that had a powerful impact on the other disillusioned writers of the decade. he reached the depths in The Hollow Men
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Sinclair Lewis
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Became the most popular of the critical novelists. Main Street satisfied the values of small-town America as dull, complacent, and narrow-minded. Babbitt, portrayed George Babbitt as the stereotype of the lazy, smug middle-class businessmen who hailed the decade as the New Era
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F Scott Fitzgerald
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chronicled American youth in This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby, writing in bittersweet prose about "the beautiful and the damned."
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Warren Harding
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Ohio Senator, the embodiment of muddle-class values, expressed his opinion that "too much has been said about bolshevism in America". Died and left Coolidge to become president
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Calvin Coolidge
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Republican president. Received 15 million votes. Famous for his epigrams.
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Herbert Hoover
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Became the Republican choice. Leader of the GOP. epitomized the American myth of the self-made man. Directed Wilson's food program during WWI. Embodied the nation's faith in individualism and free enterprise. Sought cooperation between government and business. Assisted American manufacturers and exporters in expanding their overseas trade, supported a trade association movement to encourage cooperation.
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“Normalcy”
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Coined by Warren Harding. Theme for Republican administrations. Normalcy in taxation Return to traditional Republican policies was normal.
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Sinclair Lewis
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Became the most popular of the critical novelists. Main Street satisfied the values of small-town America as dull, complacent, and narrow-minded. Babbitt, portrayed George Babbitt as the stereotype of the lazy, smug middle-class businessmen who hailed the decade as the New Era
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18th Amendment
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established Prohibition in the United States. Its ratification was certified on January 16, 1919
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Sheppard-Towner Act
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Provided for federal aid to establish state programs for maternal and infant healthcare.
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Effects of Organized Labor
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proved unable to advance the interests of workers in the 1920s. Conservative leadership in the AFL neglected the task of organizing the vast numbers of unskilled laborers in the mass production industries. It also weakened the appeal of unions by portraying them as radical organizations after a series of strikes in 1919.
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National Origins Quota Act
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limited immigration from Europe to 150,000 a year, allocated mosr of the available slots to immigrants from Great Britain, Ireland, Germany, and Scandinavia, and banned all Asian immigrants. (1924)
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Fordney-McCumber Act
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Supported by Reps, opposed by farmers and Democrats. Called for high tariffs to protect American factories and farms. "American selling price" was introduced and president had authority to raise rates
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Yellow dog contracts
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used by many businesses, forbade employees to join unions. Used to establish open shops and deny workers the benefits of collective bargaining.
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National Womens Party
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led by Alice Paul. Lobbied for full equality of women under the law. Succeeded in having an Equal Rights Amendment introduced to Congress
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Marcus Garvey
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National Hero of Jamaica was a publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, Black Nationalist, Pan-Africanist, and orator. Marcus Garvey was founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League.
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Red Scare
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The first and most intense outbreak of national alarm came in 1919. Denotes two distinct periods of strong anti-Communism in the United States.left-wing political violence and social agitation aggravated national social and political tensions causing the scare.
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Volstead Act
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was the enabling legislation for the Eighteenth Amendment which established prohibition in the United States. The Anti-Saloon League's Wayne Wheeler conceived and drafted the bill, which was named for Andrew Volstead, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, which managed the legislation.
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Andrew Mellon
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Secretary of Treasury, a wealthy Pittsburgh banker and industrialist, worked hard to achieve a similar return to normalcy in taxation. Pressed for repealing an excess profits tax on corporations and slashing personal rates on the very rich. Reduced government spending.
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