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Wall Street
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Financial Districk in New York City that contains the NY stock exchange
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Buying on Margin
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The act of purchasing stocks without possessing the full amount of cash needed to buy stock. In 20's all you needed was 10%
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Bull Market
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More buyers than sellers
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Bear Market
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More sellers than buyers
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Stock Pooling
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A group of investors pool their money to purchase the majority shares of a stock to have direct control over the price.
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Painting the Tape
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The act of having journalists for highly read newspapers make a stock seem exciting to draw buyers.
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Stock Manipulation
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The affect of stock pooling, which results in the outsiders or little people buying stocks whose price is inflated
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Boom and Bust Cycle
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What goes up must come down. Economic cycle
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"Blue Skies"
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Hit song in the 20's that represented the era
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Jazz Age
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Name given to the 20's due to the popularity of Jazz
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Radio Corporation of America (RCA)
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company that pruduced radios and was an example of a manipulated stock that made 100 million dollars for investrs
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Ticker Tape
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piece of tape dispensed from a ticker that read off the current price of a stock and its recent transactions.
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Charles Mitchell
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Famous buyer and seller of stocks who was president of National City Bank and created a mass market of investing for the litte guy. He bailed Wall Street out of a crash prior to black tuesday
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William Durant
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extremely rich business man who founded GE and went on to Wall Street and later had the ability to drive up the price of a specific price alone.
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Jessie Livermore
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Said to have been worth more than $100 million from the stock market.
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Evangeline Adams
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Famous astrologer in 20's who figured out variations in potential stock prices and predicted that stocks would continue to rise.
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Herbert Hoover
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American president who served after the extremely popular Coolidge in a time of prosperity. He left business alone and was criticized for not helping America out of the depression
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Harry Sinclair
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American Oilman who founded Sinclair Oil Corporation. Part of Teapot Dome scandal.
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George Norris
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Representative from Nebraska who was successful in his crusade to strip the speaker of the House, Joseph G. Cannon, of his dictatorial power. Independent of all parties and was later in the senate.
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Andrew Mellon
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Wealthy industrialist and fsecretary of the treasury during the Republican Administration of Harding, Coolidge, Hoover.
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H.L. Mencken
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As editor, newspaperman, iconoclastic critic, and literary stylist, was a liberlaizing influence on American literature and social thought through the years before and after WWI.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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best known as the voice of the 20's. While his aritistic reputaition rests most securley on The Great Gatsby he also wrote This SIde of Paradise and Tender is the Night.
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Sinclair Lewis
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First American writer to win Nobel Prize for literature, added a new realism to the depiction of life in middle America. His keen ear for the spoken word and his strong satiric sense marked such classic noevels as Main Street, Babbitt, and Elmer Gantry.
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Theodore Dreiser
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writer that depicted individualscaught hopelessley between natural drives and ambitions and a society that imposed moralistic limitations and impossible expectations for material success.
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Hemingway
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Quentessential American novelist and a great prose stylist. Wrote THe SUn Also Rises, A Farwell to Arms, and for Whom the Bell Tolls
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T.S. Eliot
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Wrote peotry and Nobel Prize winner in 1948
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Freud
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devised the therpay for mental disorders.
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Al Capone
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Gangster that trafficked alchoholic beverages.
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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Italian anarchist accused of murder and robbery during 20's, the pair were the victims of a public reaction against foreigners and anarchists in the wake of WWI.
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Leopold and Loeb
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two jewish teenagers that killed a Bobby Franks for the thrill and the recieved life sentences in prison.
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Henry Ford
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Founder of Ford Motoers.
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Langston Hughes
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Black writer that wrote poems plays and fiction. Captured black experiences in America.
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Marcus Garvey
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Launched first African American movement in the states. Black nationalist.
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Lindbergh
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Solo nonstop flight from New York to Paris.
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Babe Ruth
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One of the most famous baseball players of all time.
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Chaplin
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Comic genius.
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Valentino
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The first male superstar of film history, in The Foure Hosemen of the Apocalypse and The Sheik.
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Aimee Semple Mcpherson
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important religous reviver,and she found the Foursquare Gospel\.
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Billy Sunday
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The most popular Evangelist of his day.
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Robert LaFollete
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Advocated progressive reforms in senate and sponsered a bill to restrict the power of the railroad companies. Presedential candidate for progressive party in 1924
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Ohio Gang
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group of politicians that recieved high offices under Harding. THey were involved with a number of scandals.
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Charles Evans Hughes
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Governor of NY, US Secretary of State, Associate Chief Justice and Chief Justice of supreme court. He uncovered corruptions that led to lower gas rates in Ny.
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A. Mitchell Palmer
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Attorney General of US. Nicnamed the fighting Quaker
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Al Smith
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Governor of Ny, Dem U.S. presidential candidate in 1928.
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Amelia Earhart
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Notable aviation pioneer and women rights advocate
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William Faulkner
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Novelist and poet who wrote about Mississippi.
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P.T. Barnum
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Barnum and bailey Circus
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Woodhull Sisters
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notorius symbol for womens rights
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John Dewey
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Philosopher and one of the founders of the philosophical school of pragmatism.
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Al Jolson
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acclaimed american singer and actor.
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Willa Cather
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De.picted US life in novels such as O Pioneers!, My Antonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop
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Will Rogers
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American comedian
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Normalcy
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a promise by Harding after WWI
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Sex of clock
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the change in the twenties of moral values and the way people regarded sex.
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Flappers
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Young women in the US who lived a sexualy liberated lifestyle.
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Reparations
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the monetary compensation intended to cover damage or injury during WWI.
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Hoovervilles
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Slums that were named after Hoover because of his lack to end the depression.
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Lost Generation
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A group of American literary notables that lived in france
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KDKA
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first commercial radion station in US.
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The Jazz Singer
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U.S. Musical film.
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THe Birth of a Nation
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The controversial film which portrays the Ku Klux Klan as a heroic organization.
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Okies
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agricultural workesr who immigrated to california from the dust bowl.
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Teapot Dome
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Congress gave power to secretary of the navy to lease government owne oil reserves to private companies.Albert B. Fall leased oil reserves to Sinclair for cash gifts and no intrest loans.
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McNary-Haugen Bill
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proposed that the government buy surplus crops and sell them abroad in order to raise domestic agricultural prices.
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Federal Farm Board
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An independent agency to stabilize and promote the sale of agricultural products.
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Volsted Act
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The national Prohibition act. 18 amendments
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Immigration Act of 1921
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ffirst quota system that provided for the following: Immigration from a specific nation was limited to three percent of theat nations poulation living in US
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Immigration Act of 1924
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concerned with high number of nonwhite and Eastern European immigrants. Quota system.
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Scopes Trial
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Fundamentalist Christians vs. Modernist Christians over the teaching of evolution in schools.
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Okies
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agricultural workesr who immigrated to california from the dust bowl.
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Teapot Dome
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Congress gave power to secretary of the navy to lease government owne oil reserves to private companies.Albert B. Fall leased oil reserves to Sinclair for cash gifts and no intrest loans.
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McNary-Haugen Bill
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proposed that the government buy surplus crops and sell them abroad in order to raise domestic agricultural prices.
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Federal Farm Board
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An independent agency to stabilize and promote the sale of agricultural products.
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Volsted Act
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The national Prohibition act. 18 amendments
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Immigration Act of 1921
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ffirst quota system that provided for the following: Immigration from a specific nation was limited to three percent of theat nations poulation living in US
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Immigration Act of 1924
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concerned with high number of nonwhite and Eastern European immigrants. Quota system.
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Scopes Trial
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Fundamentalist Christians vs. Modernist Christians over the teaching of evolution in schools.
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