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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 the communists or the reds |
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18th amendment |
Outlawed the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. |
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Fundamentalism |
Characterized by the belief in a literal, or word for word, interpretation of the bible. |
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Scopes trial |
May 1925 a high school science teacher named john t scopes was put on trail for teaching evolution |
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Great migration |
During WWI a large amount of aa began leaving the south to take jobs in the northern factories. |
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Expatriates |
People who leave their home country to live else where |
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Langston Hughes |
A Harlem Renaissance writer who produced plays. |
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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 aa artistic accomplishment |
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Lost generation |
Writers who criticized American society on the 1920s |
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Warren g. Harding
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A senator from Ohio
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Calvin Coolidge
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The governor of Massachusetts
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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 sturdy and reliable car
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Kellogg braind pact
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An agreement that outlawed war
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Moving assembly line
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This system used conveyor belts to move parts and partly assembled cars from one group to another
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Herbert hover
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the party chose secretary of commerence as it's nominee
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