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"normalcy"
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Sensing the desire of many Americans to put the war behind and the stresses of 1919 behind them, Harding promised "not heroics but healing, not nostrums but ..."
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Warren G. Harding
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Elected in 1920, Republican Party leaders wanted a candidate they could dominate. Genial, loyal, and mediocre. Died during his term.
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Teapot Dome
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The worst scandal during the term of Harding. Concerned with the secret leasing to private companies of government oil reserves.
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Calvin Coolidge
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Vise-President to Harding took office after his death. Re-elected in 1924. He was more respectable than Harding.
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League of Women Voters
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One of the ten major white women organizations of the Women's Joint Congressional Committee. They lobbied actively for reform legeslation.
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Henry Ford
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shared the prosperity of the 1920's. He paid his workers well to increase their buying power as consumers. Shortened the work week and gave a two week paid vacation.
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff
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In 1930 the act raised tariffs on imports to all time high and made it nearly impossible for the Allied Powers to pay of the remaining $4.3 billion in war loans.
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Dawes Plan
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It reduced the reparations that Germany owed to the Allies and provided substantial American bank to assist the Germans to keep up with the payments.
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flapper
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A new cultural icon represented emancipated womanhood.
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Jazz Singer
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Music in the late 1920's that had creative excitement and sexual character.
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Louis Armstrong
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nickname satchmo. Played trumpet.
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nativism
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The growth of cities from migration and immigration
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National Origins Act
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An emergency immigration act in 1921 that cut immigration quotas to 2 percent of each nationality.
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Ku Klux Klan
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A racist group composed of three million members.
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Scopes "Monkey" Trial
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The trial of John T. Scopes, a high school biology teacher, who had thought the principles of evolution to his class and faced a jail sentence for doing so. Found guilty.
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Al Capone
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A liquor smuggler or mobster during prohibition.
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"lost generation"
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Artist affected by the war.
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Langston Hughes
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A poet that became a leading exponent of the Harlem Renaissance expressed in Jazz and poems.
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Harlem Renaissance
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Art work and literature from Harlem, the center of African American life in New York City. Artist went to Harlem to express them selfs.
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Herbert Hoover
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A very respectable candidate during the 1928 election. He promised prosperity and to banish poverty. He led the US to the Great Depression.
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"Black Tuesday"
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October 29, 1929. More than 28 million shares changed hands in panic trading. Stock market crash.
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Great Crash
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Had a massive social impact. It wiped out the savings of thousands of individual investors and dealt a severe blow to many banks.
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unemployment
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It rose from 3.2 percent to 24.9 percent. 12 million people were out of work and many who had jobs took wage cuts.
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RFC
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Approved in 1932. Was supposed to increase production and make jobs by providing loans but was to cautious in lending.
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Hoovervilles
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Shanty towns where people lived in packing creates.
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Bonus Army
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A ragtag group of about 15,000 unemployed World War 1 veterans, hitch-hiked to Washington to demand immediate payment that was due to be paid in 1945.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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1932 Elected president.
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The Grapes of Wrath
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s a novel published in 1939 and written by John Steinbeck, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on a poor family of sharecroppers, the Joads, driven from their home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in the agriculture industry. In a nearly hopeless situation, they set out for California's Central Valley along with thousands of other "Okies" in search of land, jobs, and dignity.
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Scottsboro Nine
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The case was, in reality, many cases that were tried only in the first instance in Depression era Scottsboro, Alabama in 1931. Of the original nine young black defendants (some of them minors), accused of gang raping two fellow hobo white women on a freight train, eight were quickly convicted in a mob atmosphere in successive trials.
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Dust Bowl
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was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 (in some areas until 1940).
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