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18 Cards in this Set
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flappers |
- young women who cut their hair short and wore makeup and short dresses, openly challenging traditional ideas of how women were supposed to behave |
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red scare |
- a time of fear of communists, or reds |
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18th ammendment |
- which outlawed the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages......went into effect in 1920 |
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Fundamentalism |
- Protestant religious movement, characterized by the belief Ina literal, or word-for-word,interpretation of the bible |
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scopes trial |
- John T. Scopes was put on trial for teaching evolution |
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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 |
- produces poems, plays, and novels about African American life |
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jazz age |
- an explosion in the popularity of jazz music gave the decade another 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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- was chose as senator from Ohio
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Calvin Coolidge
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- took charge when president died; had a strong reputation as an honest and trustworthy leader
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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
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Model T.
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- Ford achieved his goal by building this sturdy and reliable car
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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- an agreement that outlawed war; US and 14 other nations signed this treaty
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Moving Assembly Line
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- 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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- when President Coolidge decided not to run for reelection in 1928, the party chose his secretary of commerce,
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