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37 Cards in this Set
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Model T
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A famous car manufactured by Henry Ford using an assembly line process and was made cheap.
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Al Capone
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A famous gangster from Chicago. He pretty much ran the criminal underworld in the city.
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Samuel Insull
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An inventor based in Chicago who contributed to the electrical infrastructure of America.
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19th Amendment
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The amendment that gave women the right to vote.
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Babe Ruth
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A famous baseball player alive during this time.
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Ernest Hemingway
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An author notable for his books on the time which were mostly about men alienated from society who found a sense of identity.
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Roaring Twenties
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The period of time under which prohibition was enacted. This led to an increase an crime.
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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Two radical immigrants sentenced to death for murder. Evidence against them was circumstantial.
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Scopes Trial
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A trail that was about the Tennessee law which prohibited Darwinism in school. John Scopes challenged this law.
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Clarence Darrow
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The famous lawyer sent from Chicago to defend Scopes.
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KKK
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The Klu Klux Klan, a white supremacist group who seek to use peaceful methods to suppress blacks. What a big lie....Everyone knows they lynched people.
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Fundamentalism
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Strict following of religion. Like the Bible.
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Teapot Dome
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A scandal that ruined the reputation of the Harding administration. Involved letting major oil companies to mine for oil on government land.
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Albert Fall
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Main conspirator in the Teapot Dome Scandal under President Harding. Fall was the Secretary of the Interior.
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Al Smith
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Presidential candidate in the 1928 election. Was a democrat and won the major cities.
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National Women's Party
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A party that sought to push for women rights and others to help better society.
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Equal Rights Amendment
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A proposed amendment granting every right to both men and women. Introduced in Congress but not passed.
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Charles Lindbergh
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A famous aviator who was the first to fly solo from New York to Paris.
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A Mitchell Palmer
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Primary advocate during the Red Scare. He was the one attacking foreign radicals and deporting them without trial.
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Ezra Pound
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Was a poet who primarily developed modernism in poetry.
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TS Eliot
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Author who showed life in America as being very depressing due to the change in society that he witnessed.
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Sinclair Lewis
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Was the most popular of the critical novelists. He satirized the values of small town America as dull, complacent and narrow minded.
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F Scott Fitzgerald
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Famous for his works, primarily the Great Gatsby.
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Warren Harding
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President in the 1920 election. Was well liked up until the Teapot Dome Scandal.
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Calvin Coolidge
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Replaced Harding after Harding's death. liked to use sayings which others took as wisdom. Was elected to full term in 1924.
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Herbert Hoover
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Was the republicans choice in the 1928 election. The election of Hoover pitted the rural society against the city.
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"Normalcy"
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A return to the pre world war 1 America. Mistaken word when it was supposed to be normality.
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18th Amendment
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Amendment starting prohibition.
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Sheppard-Towner Act
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Law that provided federal funds for state organizations providing Maternal and Infant health care.
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Effects of Organized Labor
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Organized labor gave power to the workers. Management then would have to deal with unions which were not looked favorable upon. Unions were often blamed for disasters in the economic or social sector.
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National Origins Quota Act
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An act that restricted immigration by only allowing a certain number of immigrants to arrive from different countries. Most of these slots were restricted those of Anglo-Saxon blood.
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Fordney-McCumber Act
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Act that raised tariffs to protect American factories and farms in 1922.
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Yellow Dog Contract
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A contract which prohibited workers from joining unions. To achieve this, managers gave more benefits to employees.
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Marcus Garvey
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Was an African American who believed that African Americans should go back to Africa and everyone else should leave it.
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Red Scare
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A communism scare in the 1920s after communists and other foreign radicals were blamed for a series of strikes and bombings.
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Volstead Act
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This act was the beginning of Prohibition. This act set the date of Prohibition. This act put the 18th amendment into effect and the prohibition era began.
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Andrew Mellon
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Was the Secretary of the Treasury during this time from 1921 to 1932. He lowered taxes significantly and reduced government spending. He lowered taxes so much (through loopholes) that some rich millionaires did not even have to pay taxes.
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