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32 Cards in this Set
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Isolationism
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Staying away from foreign affairs
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Red Scare
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Fear of Communism; first wave came after WW I
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nativism
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Preference for only native-born Americans
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Ku Klux Klan
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resurgence in the 1920s because of racism aimed at immigrants and minorities
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Warren Harding
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Return to normalcy after WWI; Teapot Dome Scandal over oil leases in Wyoming
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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Italian anarchists convicted of murder but trial was tainted by nativist feelings
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Calvin Coolidge
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"Business of America is business."
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Herbert Hoover
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Believed in "rugged individualism" and the government should let citizens take care of themselves
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Henry Ford
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Mass produced the Model T automobile using the assembly line method
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electricity
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spread of this in the 1920s changed society as new appliances changed the role of women in society
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Glenn Curtiss
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Aviation pioneer who successfully landed a hydroplane on a navy ship
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Charles Lindbergh
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Flew the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic in 1927
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Buying on credit
Advertising |
encouraged people to buy more goods and led to a rise in consumerism
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Mass markets
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Led to corporate profits and stock prices to rise
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speculation
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borrowing money to buy stocks thinking they would never stop rising
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18th amendment
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Banned the sale of alcoholic beverages; also known as prohibition
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Frances Willard
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Started the temperance movement in the 1800s spreading the ills of alcohol
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21st amendment
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Ended prohibition; repealed the 21st amendment; organized crime and speakeasies too difficult to control
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Scopes Monkey Trial
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The trial about the teaching of evolution that drew national attention
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Clarence Darrow
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Defense attorney for Scopes in the Monkey Trial
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William Jennings Bryan
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Lawyer for the state of Tennessee who prosecuted Scopes in the Scope Monkey Trial
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Immigration Acts of 1921, 1924, 1929
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Restrictions on immigration after WW I
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Eugenics
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Breeding could create a superior culture
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19th amendment
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1920: women's suffrage
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flapper
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women of the 20s that wore less restrictive clothing, cut their hair, and wore makeup
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Tin Pan Alley
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A section of New York City that emerged as a center for song-writing and musical ideas and where they were mixed together to form popular American music
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Great Migration
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Millions of African Americans moved from the South as sharecroppers to search for jobs in the North
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Harlem Renaissance
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Cultural rebirth of African American culture in New York City; poetry and music began making mainstream appearances
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Langston Hughes
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Popular African American poet of the Harlem Renaissance era
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Marcus Garvey
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Proposed the African Americans start a back to Africa movement and start their own country there
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Writer who showed the lifestyles of the young and rich; The Great Gatsby
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Sinclair Lewis
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Wrote about how narrow-minded and hypocritical Americans had become
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