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Teapot Dome Scandal
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Scandal that troubled the administration during the presidency of Harding.
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Prohibition
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1920-1933. Banning of the sale, manufacture and transportation of alcohol but did permit the use or possession
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Red Scare
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Strong-anti communism in history and the fear of widespread infiltration of communists in the US government
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Fundamentalism
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Christian movement towards traditionalism. They take a literal interpretation of the bible.
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Scopes Trial
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Law passed in TN which forbade the teaching of evolution. William Jennings Bryan (cross of gold speech)
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KKK
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Rise of the klan due to urbanization, industrialization, massive immigration and Catholicism. Was less violent than during Reconstruction
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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Sacco & Vanzetti were two Italian-born American laborers and anarchists, who were tried, convicted and executed via electrocution on August 23, 1927 in Massachusetts for the 1920 armed robbery and murder of two pay-clerks in South Braintree, Massachusetts.
Their controversial trial attracted enormous international attention, with critics accusing the prosecution and presiding Judge Webster Thayer of improper conduct, and of allowing anti-Italian, anti-immigrant, and anti-anarchist sentiment to prejudice the jury. |
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jazz
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Viewed as radical, came from African-American roots. Very popular during the 1920s
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Flappers
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The term flapper in the 1920s referred to a "new breed" of young women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to the new Jazz music, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. The flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, driving automobiles, and otherwise flouting conventional social and sexual norms.
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Lost Generation
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Coined by Hemingway. Often it is used to refer to a group of American literary notables who lived in Paris and other parts of Europe, some after military service in the First World War. Figures identified with the "Lost Generation" include authors and poets Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson, Waldo Peirce, and John Dos Passos.
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Henry Ford
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Sold many cars. An innovator in industrial practices
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Clara Bow
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An American actress and sex symbol, who rose to fame in the silent film era of the 1920s. Bow was renowned for her sexual magnetism and became known around the world as the It girl, where "It" was commonly understood to mean sex appeal. She was regarded as a quintessential flapper.
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Great Migration
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Where blacks moved to northern cities like Chicago
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Washington Naval Conference
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1922- Under Harding, international conference to agree upon a favorable naval ratio. Limited warships each country could have
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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1928- An international treaty that called for the renunciation of war. Making war was illegal
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