Chapter 25

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Model T

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Sales slumped after ford stopped making the model.

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Al Capone

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His empire produced revenue of $60 million a year.

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Samuel Insull

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Greatly contributed to making an electrical infrastructure.

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19th Amendment

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Proved to have less impact than its proponents had hoped.

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Babe Ruth

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An American major league baseball player.

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Ernest Hemingway

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Author and journalist.

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Roaring twenties

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Excitement ran high in the cities as both crime waves and highly publicized sports events flourished.

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Sacco and Vanzetti

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Two Italian aliens who were arrested for payroll robbery and murder.

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Scopes Trial

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Drew the attention of the entire country to the small town if Dayton in the summer of 1925.

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Clarence Darrow

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A country lawyer from Ashtabula, Ohio.

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KKK

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Reborn during the new urban culture but fell even more quickly than it rose.

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Fundamentalism

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Campaigned against the teaching of evolution in public schools.

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Teapot Dome

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Two oil promoters gave Fall nearly four hundred thousand dollars in loans and bribes.

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Albert Fall

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Secretary of the Interior, part of the Teapot Dome scandal.

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Al Smith

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the govenor of New York, chosen as the Democratic candiidate in 1928.

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National Women's Party

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A group of Activists who lobbied for full equality for women under the law.

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Equal Rights Amendment

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stated that men and women shall have equal righs throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.

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Charles Lindbergh

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First man to successfully fly across the Atlantic solo.

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Palmer Raids

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A. Mitchell Palmer led a series of raids to roundup foreign-born radicals.

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Ezra Pound

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poet who expressed a deep regret for the tragic waste of a whole generation in defense of a "botched civilization."

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TS Eliot

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poet who expressed immense dispair in his work.

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Sinclair Lewis

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the most popular of the critical novelists.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Immortalized heavy drinking, causual sexual encounters, and a constant search for excitement as the hallmarks for upper-class youth.

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Warren Harding

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reflected both virtues and blemishes of small-town America.

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Calvin Coolidge

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assumed the presidency upon Harding's death, and his honesty and inegrity quickly reassured the Nation.

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Herbert Hoover

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epitomized the American yth of the self-made man.

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Normalcy

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new theme of the Republican Administrations.

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18th Amendment

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prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.

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Sheppard-Towner Act

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a gender specific legislation that women had fought hard to enact.

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Effects of Organized Labor

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proved unable to advance the interests of workers in the 1920's.

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National Origins Quota Act

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limited immigration from Europe to 150,000 a year.

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Fordney McCumber Act

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net effect was to raise the basic rates substantially over the moderate Underwood Tariff scedules of the Wilson period.

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Yellow dog contracts

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forbade employees to join unions.

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Marcus Garvey

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believed that racial oppression and exploitation lay at the heart of most of the world's societies.

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Red Scare

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First and most intense outbreak of national alarm.

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Volstead Act

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implemented prohibition.

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Andrew Mellon

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a wealthy Pittsburgh banker and industrialist. Also Secretary of Treasury.