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21 Cards in this Set
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Francisco "Pancho" Villa
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provoked us into intervening in the mexican civil war
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Food Administration
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herbert hoovers. increase agricultural production
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Committee on Public Info
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during ww1 this produced war propaganda to weaken the enemys morale
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League of Nations
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nations mediate disputes and avoid war est. after ww1 as a part of the treaty of versailles. woodrow wilsons fourteen points speech to congress in 1918
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Reparations
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a part of the treaty of versailles, germany required to confess its responsibility of ww1 and make payments to the victors.
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Spanish Flu
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unprecedentedly lethal influenza epidemic of 1918 that killed more than 22 million people worldwide
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Red Scare
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fear among many americans after ww1 of communists
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A. Mitchell Palmer
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attorney general, played an active role in the red scare
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Nativism
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anti immigrant and anti catholic feeling.
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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomea Vanzetti
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italian immigrants who were arrested for stealing $16000 and killing a paymaster and his guard.
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KKK
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organized in TN in 1866. by the 1920s, stressed white, anglo-saxon, fundamentalist protestant supremacy.
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Fundamentalism
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anti modernists protestant movement, literal truth of the bible.
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Scarface Al Capone
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most successful gangster of the prohibition era
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Margaret Sanger
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birth control activist. distributed birth control information and opened the nations first family planning clinic in 1916
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Sigmund Freud
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founder of psychoanalysis, human behavior was motivated by unconscious and irrational forces. by the 1920s, his ideas were being more discussed in usa
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Alice Paul
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leader of womens suffrage movement and head of the congressional committee of national women suffrage association.
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19 Amendment
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women granted the right to vote
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New Negro
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in the 1920s created a spirit of protest that was expressed during the harlem ren. black political influence
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Harlem Renaissance
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african am movement of the 1920s and 30s centered in Harlem NY. Langston Hughes was among this movement
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Modernism
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a mood and a movement, era of change. traditional ways of thinking and creating art were being rejected and replaced with new expressions
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Marcus Garvey
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leading spokesman for negro nationalism which exalted blackness, black cultural expression, and black exclusiveness. Create their own culture.
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