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Isolationism
US separated from Europe to avoid future wars but we did not stop trade
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Red scare
intense fear of communism
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Palmer Raids
raided homes and deported those they suspected supported communism
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Anarchist
people who opposed any form of government
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Sacco and Vanzetti
- charged with a murder in Massachusetts and found guilty and executed in 1927
- there was extreme discrimination because they were Italian radicals
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Quota system
limit the # of immigrants who come to the US
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Labor strikes after WWI grabbed public attention
- Boston Police strike
- Steel mill strike
- coal miner strike
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John Lewis
became a national hero in the Coal Miner's Strike in 1919
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Election of 1920
- Warren G. Harding-Republican won
- James Cox- Democrat
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Fordney-McCumber Tariff
highest tarriff since the Civil War
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Ohio Gang
close advisers to Harding
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Teapot Dome Scandal
When secretary of Interior, Albert Fall illegally leases oil reserves in teapot dome Wyoming
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Election of 1924
- Calvin Coolidge- Republican won
- John Davis- Democrat
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Henry Ford
- 1903- organized the Ford Motor company
- 1908- Model T was introduced
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assembly line
used by Henry Ford in building the Model T using conveyor Belts
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Urban Sprawl
cities spread in all directions
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Installment plan
when you buy now, pay later like credit
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Prohibition
when the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages was illegal
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18th amendment
prohibition amendment
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21st amendment
repealed the 18th
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Volstead Act
law passes by Congress to enforce the 18th amendment
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Speakeasies
a place where alcohol was sold illegally
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bootleggers
people who make, sell, or transport alcohol illegally
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Al Capone
Chicago gangster whose bootlegging empire netted over 60 million dollars a year
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Fundamentalism
a protestant religious movement grounded in the belief that all of the stories in the Bible are true
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Scopes trial
John T. Scopes was charged with teaching evolution in school and the prosecuting attorney was William Jennings Bryan in Dayton, Tennessee
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Flappers
a young woman of the 1920s who challenged social traditions with their dress and behavior
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Double standard
a set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women
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Mass media
means of communication that teaches a large audience such as television, newspapers, radio
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Charles Lindbergh
made the first solo flight across the Atlantic ocean
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Amelia Earhart
first woman to fly across the Atlantic
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The Jazz Singer
the first major movie with sound in 1927
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Steamboat Willie
the first animated film with sound in 1928
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Sinclair lewis
first american to win a nobel peace prize in literature. In his novel the Babbitt he ridiculed Americans for their conformity and Materialism
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
coined the term "Jazz Age" to describe the 1920s
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Ernest Hemmingway
with novels such as the Sun Also Rises and A farewell to Arms he criticized the glorification of war
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Lost generation
writers who believed they were in a greedy materialistic society in the 20's
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James Johnson
was a poet, lawyer, and NAACP executive secretary and helped fight for anti-lynching legislation
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Marcus Garvey
pushed for a back to Africa Movement
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Harlem Renaissance
African American literary awakening of the 1920's
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Langston Hughes
best known poet of the Harlem Renaissance
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Louis Armstrong
most influential musician of the Jazz age
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Bessie Smith
in 1927 became the highest paid black artist
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