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Warren G Harding
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29th U.S President, republican, died of a heart attack before completing term, 1921-1923
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Calvin Coolidge
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30th president, was vice president of warren G Harding 1923-1929, only wanted to run once, honest reputation, good character, he built back up the faith in government of the American people-Teapot Dome Scandal
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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Albert Fall-Secretary of interior, he was busted for taking bribes from oil companies; Tea pot Dome, WY and Elk Hills, CA in 1921
*First time in U.S history a cabinet member had been convicted of a crime while in office |
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Albert Fall
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Secretary of interior, he was busted for taking bribes from oil companies; Tea pot Dome, WY and Elk Hills, CA in 1921
*First time in U.S history a cabinet member had been convicted of a crime while in office |
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Herbert Hoover
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31st president during the great depression 1929- 1933 “Homerville’s” “Hover Dam” *October 9, 1929 the stock market crashed “A chicken at every pot and a car in every garage” –Campaign Slogan
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to resolve disputes with war, 62 nations total signed PACT “out law war”- ineffective because no real way to enforce it “tin lizzie”
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Model t
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the first available automobile powered by gasoline and an engine mass-produced by Henry Ford from 1908- 1927
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Assembly line
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a series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled/ standing still and specializing in one job *ALL DAY LONG
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Women Suffrage
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- Prohibition
- Fashion - Consumerism - Jazz Age - Radio Shows and Advertisements - Flappers/Dancing - Hollywood Movies |
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Flappers
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a fashionable young woman with short hair and dresses with strings that fly all over the place
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Red Scare
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the promotion of fear
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21st Amendment
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an admission of a terrible failure of prohibition, which led to people disrespecting the law (outlawed alcohol/people didn’t respect that)
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Fundamentalism
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a form of a religion especially islam or protestant Christianity, that shows their believe and culture
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Scopes Trial
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American legal case in 1925 in which a high school teacher, john scopes, was accused of violating the Tennessee butler act
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Great Migration
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the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural southern United States to the urban northeast, Midwest, and west that lasted until the 1960’s
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Marcus Garvey
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a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a leader of the black nationalism and African movements
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Jazz Age
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the end of "The Great Depression" which is when jazz, music, and dance all became popular and society was very artsy
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Expatriots
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people who live outside their home country
People/Writers who were so disgusted with their society they moved to paris/ or other countries |
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Lost Generation
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the maturing after wwI
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Talkie
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the first times movies had sounds and people speaking/ the first words ever spoken in cinema history
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Harlem Renaissance
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a cultural movement that spanned the 1920's
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Langston Hughes
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american poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and he was a communist
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Georgia Okeefe
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an artist who was well known for her detailed paintings of her flowers and the southwest
her painting style is art deco she lived in New Mexico most of her life |
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Speak Easies
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secret bars wear you would need a code to get in and they sold liquor and had flappers during the times when liquor was illegal (18th amendment)
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Jazz Age
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when jazz music and dance became popular
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