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14 Cards in this Set
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Bootleger
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Someone who sells illegal alcohol.
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Flapper
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Young women from the 20s who are against traditional rules of behavior or dress.
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Harlem Renaissance
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A period during the 1920s in which African American book writers, poets, and artists celebrated their culture.
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Installment Buying
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A method of purchase in which the customer makes a small down payment and then pays off the rest of the debt later.
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Jazz
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An American musical form created by African Americans, based on imagination and combining blues, ragtime, and European-based popular music.
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Lost Generation
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A term for American writers of the 20s marked by disappointment with WWI and a search for a new sense of meaning.
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Nativism
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A belief that people who were born in America are better than immigrants.
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Prohibition
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A law that states that making, transporting, and selling alcohol is illegal.
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Scopes Trial
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The 1925 trial of a Tennessee schoolteacher for teaching the Theory of Evolution.
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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A scandal during the Harding administration in which the Secretary of the Interior owned government oil reserves to private oilmen in return for bribes.
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Buying on Margin
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A system of buying stocks in which a buyer pays a small percentage of the purchase price while the broker does the rest.
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Dawes Plan
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A comprise in which the United States gave money to Germany as a loan so they can pay back the war damages to Britain and France.
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Modernism
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An artistic and literary movement created by a break with past meetings.
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Fundamentalism
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A movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principals.
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