Chapter 25 Notecards

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Model T

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an automobile that was produced by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company from 1908 through 1927

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Al Capone

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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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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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Gave women the right to vote

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Babe Ruth

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an American Major League baseball player from 1914–1935

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Ernest Hemingway

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an American author and journalist. A Farewell to Arms. The Sun Also Rises

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Roaring Twenties

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a phrase used to describe the 1920s, principally in North America but also in London, Paris and Berlin. The phrase was meant to emphasize the period's social, artistic, and cultural dynamism. 'Normalcy' returned to politics in the wake of World War I, jazz music blossomed, the flapper redefined modern womanhood, Art Deco peaked, and finally the Wall Street Crash of 1929 served to punctuate the end of the era, as The Great Depression set in.

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Sacco and Vanzetti

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anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. After a controversial trial and a series of appeals, the two Italian immigrants were executed on August 23, 1927

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Scopes Trial

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The State of Tennessee v. Scopes and informally known as the Scopes Monkey Trial—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

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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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group created to oppose all men that were not white.

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Fundamentalism

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a belief in a strict adherence to specific set of theological doctrines typically in reaction against what are perceived as modern heresies of secularism. originally coined by its supporters to describe a specific package of theological beliefs that developed into a movement within the Protestant community of the United States in the early part of the 20th century, and that had its roots in the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy of that time.

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Teapot Dome

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Albert Fall was giving government land away to people for money

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Albert Fall

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Secretary of the Interior under Warren G. Harding. 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. He was the first Roman Catholic to run for President as a major party nominee. He lost the election to Herbert Hoover.

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National Women’s Party

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a women's organization founded by Alice Paul in 1915 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. The ERA was originally written by Alice Paul. In 1923, it passed both houses of Congress, but failed to gain ratification before its deadline

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Charles Lindbergh

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an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist.

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A Mitchell Palmer – “Palmer Raids”

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Attorney General of the United States from 1919 to 1921. followers of anarchist Luigi Galleani attempted to assassinate Palmer by mailing a booby trap bomb to his home. It was intercepted and defused. Two months later, Palmer and his family narrowly escaped death when an anarchist placed a bomb on his porch. Yet he initially moved slowly to find a way to attack the source of the violence. An initial raid in July 1919 against a small anarchist group in Buffalo failed when a federal judge tossed out his case

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Ezra Pound

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an American expatriate poet and critic, and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry

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TS Eliot

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an American-born English poet, playwright, and literary critic, arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Gerontion (1920), The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930), and Four Quartets (1945)

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Sinclair Lewis

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an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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F Scott Fitzgerald

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American author, The Great Gatsby

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Warren Harding

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President in 1920, died in 1923

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Calvin Coolidge

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took over after Warren G Harding, won election of 1924

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Herbert Hoover

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Won presidential election of 1928

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“Normalcy”

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pre-progressive era

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Sinclair Lewis

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an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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18th Amendment

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Prohibition

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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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Effects of Organized Labor

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many more jobs were created

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National Origins Quota Act

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a United States federal law that limited the number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890, down from the 3% cap set by the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, according to the Census of 1890

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Fordney-McCumber Act

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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

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Yellow dog contracts

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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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National Womens Party

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a women's organization founded by Alice Paul in 1915 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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Marcus Garvey

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a publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, Black Nationalist, Pan-Africanist, and orator. Marcus Garvey was founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL)

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Red Scare

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began following the Bolshevik Russian Revolution of 1917 and the intensely patriotic years of World War I as anarchist and left-wing political violence and social agitation aggravated national social and political tensions

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Volstead Act

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the enabling legislation for the Eighteenth Amendment which established prohibition in the United States.

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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.