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43 Cards in this Set
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Nativism |
prejudice against foreign born people |
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isolationism |
a policy of pulling away from involvement in foreign affairs |
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communism |
an economic and political system based on a single -party government ruled by a dictatorship |
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anarchists |
people who oppose any form of government |
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Red Scare |
widespread fear of communism |
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Palmer raids |
arrest of suspected radicals, violation of civil rights involving many innocent victims |
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Sacco and Vanzetti |
accused of payroll robbery and murder, very weak case but executed for the crime |
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quota system |
established the maximum number of people who could enter the U.S. from each foreign country |
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John L. Lewis |
leader of the United Mine Workers who called for strikes |
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Charles Evan Hughes |
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 |
Elected president in 1920, return America back to "normalcy" |
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Fordney McCumber tariff |
raised taxes on imports to 60 % |
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Ohio Gang |
President Harding cabinet members who caused corruption and used their offices to become wealthy |
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Teapot Dome Scandal |
secret leasing of government land for profit |
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Albert B. Fall |
Secretary of Interior who took bribes for oil leases |
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Calvin Coolidge |
becomes president in 1924 and is pro-business - businesses flourish during his presidency |
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urban sprawl |
cities spread in every direction |
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installment plan |
buying things one can not afford over an extended period of time on credit |
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prohibition |
a ban on the manufacturing and sale of alcohol |
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speakeasies |
underground saloons and nightclubs |
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bootleggers |
illegal making and smuggling of alcohol |
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fundamentalism |
supporting traditional religious values |
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Clarence Darrow |
famous trial lawyer of 1920s |
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Scopes Trial |
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 |
a set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women |
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Charles Lindbergh |
1st solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean |
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George Gershwin |
mixed popular concert music with Jazz |
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Georgia O'Keeffe |
artist who painted brightly colored canvases of New York city |
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Sinclair Lewis |
wrote novels that ridiculed American conformity and materialism |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald |
wrote novels about the Jazz Age and the negative side of the periods gaiety and freedom, |
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Edna St. Vincent Malay |
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 |
African American writer who struggled to make it big in white society |
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James Weldon Johnson |
poet, lawyer and Secretary of NAACP |
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Marcus Garvey |
believed African American should build a separate society |
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Harlem Renaissance |
black movement that involved literature, art and expression ( black pride) |
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Claude McKay |
novelist and poet who urged African Americans to resist prejudice and discrimination |
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Langston Hughes |
poems described the difficulties of working class African Americans |
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Paul Robeson |
dramatic African American actor |
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Louis Armstrong |
famous Jazz trumpet player |
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Duke Ellington |
famous Jazz pianist and composer |
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Bessie Smith |
famous female blues singer |