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Red Scare

A period of intense anti-communism lasting from 1919 to 1920

American Plan

A business-oriented approach to worker relations popular among firms in the 1920s to defeat unionization

Immigration Act of 1924

Established quotas for immigration to the U.S., AKA "National Origins Act"

18th Amendment

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages

Fundamentalism

A Protestant Christian movement emphasizing the literal truth of the Bible and opposing religious modernism, which sought to reconcile religion and science