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51 Cards in this Set
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Violated the state law and taught the theory of evolution
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John Scopes
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First female to swim the English Channel
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Helen Wills
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Three time presidential nominee; testified as an expert on the Bible
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William Jennings Bryan
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The "Galloping Ghost"
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The Red Grange
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Attorney General whose house was targeted by an anarchist bomber
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A. Mitchell Palmer
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President of the United Mine Workers
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John L. Lewis
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Won the grand slam of golf in 1930
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Bobby Jones
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Declared the American people wanted a "return to normalcy"
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Warren G. Harding
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Secretary of the interior who allowed naval oil reserves to be leased by private companies
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Albert Fall
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He said "the business of America is business"
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Calvin Coolidge
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Attorny General who was a member of the Ohio gang
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Harry Daughtery
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Designed the ford assembly plant in Highland Park and the Rouge complex
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Albert Kahn
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The most famous baseball hero of the 1920s who hit a record number of homeruns
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Babe Ruth
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efforts to enact a national anti- lynching law
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didn't result in an amendment to the constitution
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the palmer raids were associated with the
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kkk
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the restrictive immigration laws of the U.S. discriminated against immigrants from
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south and eastern Eroupe
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the teapot dome scandal was related to
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lease of government oil reserves to private companies
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won the famous long count boxing match
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Gene Tunny
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superb tennis player but had a problem with personal hygeine
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Bill Tilden
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which amendment gave women the right to vote?
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19th
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most famous prohibition agents
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izzy and Moe
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bold young women during 1920s
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flappers
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said there is no right to strike against the public safety by anyone, anywhere...
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Calvin Coolidge
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legendary football coach for Notre Dame between 1918-1931
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Knute Rockne
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3 of the popular dances during the 1920s
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Big apple
Charleston Black bottom |
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champion swimmer who played tarzan in the movies
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Johnny Weismiller
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illegal bars
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speakeasies
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1914 henry ford announced he would pay workers
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$5/day
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repealed prohibition
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21st amendment
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two of the farmers problems after WW1
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prices dropped
faced repossesion of equipment |
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3 causes of the red scare
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newspapers blamed communists for the strikes
there were two communist parties in U.S. bombs |
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italian anarchists who were executed for a robbery and double murder
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Bartalameo
Nicolas |
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worst result of prohibition
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increase of gangs
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3 groups targeted by KKK
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jews
immigrants Radicals |
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3 ways civil rights were violated during the palmer raids
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no interperters
bail was too high the people didn't have lawyers |
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when coal miners began to strike in nov. 1919 and refused to go back to work the issues were submitted to
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arbitration
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who administered the oath of office to Calvin Coolidge
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his father
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Who did Harding have an affair with?
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Nan Britton
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coolidge said_______ to a woman who had made a bet that he would say 3 words to her
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you lose
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best baseball team of all time
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1927 NY yankees
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completely shut out by Quota Acts
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Japan
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How did the Red Scare die down?
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ut was beleved that on May 1 there would be an uproar but there wasn't and red scare ended
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Albert Kahn wasn't allowed in the Dearobrn Country club because
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he was jewish
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Model T
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tin lizzie
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flapper hairstyle
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bob
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highlight of scopes monkey trial
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william jennings bryan took stand and testified as biblical expert
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strohs made during prohibition
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ice cream
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worked hard to get a law passed to make lynching a federal crime
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Maty Mcleod Bethune
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after WWI ended many americans wanted to return to a policy of
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isolationisim
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americans buying habits changed during the 1920s because
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they could buy things on credit. they would pay a down payment and a little bit each week
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made first solo transatlantic flight May 1927
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charles lindbergh
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