1920S

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Nativism

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prejudice against foreign born people

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isolationism

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a policy of pulling away from involvement in foreign affairs

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communism

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an economic and political system based on a single -party government ruled by a dictatorship

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anarchists

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people who oppose any form of government

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Red Scare

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widespread fear of communism

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Palmer raids

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arrest of suspected radicals, violation of civil rights involving many innocent victims

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Sacco and Vanzetti

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accused of payroll robbery and murder, very weak case but executed for the crime

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quota system

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established the maximum number of people who could enter the U.S. from each foreign country

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John L. Lewis

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leader of the United Mine Workers who called for strikes

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Charles Evan Hughes

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Secretary of State who proposed at the Washington Naval Conference that there be a 10 year ban on building warships

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Warren G Harding

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Elected president in 1920, return America back to "normalcy"

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Fordney McCumber tariff

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raised taxes on imports to 60 %

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Ohio Gang

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President Harding cabinet members who caused corruption and used their offices to become wealthy

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Teapot Dome Scandal

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secret leasing of government land for profit

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Albert B. Fall

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Secretary of Interior who took bribes for oil leases

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Calvin Coolidge

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becomes president in 1924 and is pro-business - businesses flourish during his presidency

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urban sprawl

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cities spread in every direction

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installment plan

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buying things one can not afford over an extended period of time on credit

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prohibition

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a ban on the manufacturing and sale of alcohol

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speakeasies

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underground saloons and nightclubs

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bootleggers

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illegal making and smuggling of alcohol

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fundamentalism

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supporting traditional religious values

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Clarence Darrow

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famous trial lawyer of 1920s

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Scopes Trial

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John T. Scopes put on trial for teaching evolution

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flapper

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an emancipated young woman who embraced new styles and urban attitudes

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double standard

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a set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women

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Charles Lindbergh

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1st solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean

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George Gershwin

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mixed popular concert music with Jazz

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Georgia O'Keeffe

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artist who painted brightly colored canvases of New York city

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Sinclair Lewis

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wrote novels that ridiculed American conformity and materialism

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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wrote novels about the Jazz Age and the negative side of the periods gaiety and freedom,

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Edna St. Vincent Malay

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wrote poems celebrating youth and a life of independence and freedom from traditional constraints

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Ernest Hemingway

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criticized the glorification of war in his writing

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Zora Neale Hurston

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African American writer who struggled to make it big in white society

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James Weldon Johnson

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poet, lawyer and Secretary of NAACP

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Marcus Garvey

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believed African American should build a separate society

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Harlem Renaissance

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black movement that involved literature, art and expression ( black pride)

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Claude McKay

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novelist and poet who urged African Americans to resist prejudice and discrimination

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Langston Hughes

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poems described the difficulties of working class African Americans

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Paul Robeson

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dramatic African American actor

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Louis Armstrong

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famous Jazz trumpet player

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Duke Ellington

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famous Jazz pianist and composer

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Bessie Smith

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famous female blues singer