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18 Cards in this Set
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Flappers |
Young women that cut their hair short and wore makeup and short dresses
Challenging traditional ideas of how women were support to behave |
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Red Scare |
A time of fear of communist also known a s reds
began when postal workers found bombs in packages addressed to famous Americans |
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18th amendment |
Prohibiting the transportation manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages
criminals called bootleggers seized control of the illegal alcohol business |
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Fundamentalism |
Protestant religious movement characterized by the belief in a literal interpretation of the Bible
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Scopes trial |
John T Scope was put on trial for teaching evolution in school |
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Great Migration |
During WW1 large numbers of African Americans began leaving the south to take jobs in northern factories |
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Expatriates |
People who leave their home country to live elsewhere |
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Langston Hughes |
Harlem Renaissance writer who produced plays poems and novels about African American life |
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Jazz Age |
An explosion in the popularity of jazz music gave the decade that nickname |
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Harlem Renaissance |
A period of African American artistic accomplishment |
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Lost Generation |
Writers who criticized American society in the 1920s |
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Warren G. Harding
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Senator from Ohio
Chosen to offer new hope for American voters |
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Calvin Coolidge
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Governor of Massachusetts
Running mate with Harding |
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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Involved Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall who accepted large sums of money and valuable gifts from private oil companies
In exchange Fall allowed the companies to control government oil reserves |
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Model T
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Ford achieved his goal by building a study and reliable car the Model T
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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In 1928 the US and 14 other nations signed this pact which was an agreement that outlawed war
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Moving assembly line
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This system used conveyer belts to move parts and partly assembled cars from one group of workers to another
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Herbert Hoover
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Party chose Coolidge's secretary of commerce as it's nominee
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