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Post War America
- Labor unrest
- Social termoil
- a wide spread panic over the Russian Revolution
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John J. Pershing
Allied Commandor
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Labor Unrest
when wages do not rise with the price of goods
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A. Mitchell Palmer
- Atterney General under Woodrill
- opponent of communism,
- ordered the Palmer Raids against racials and Aliens during the Red Scare
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Palmer Raids
Taking Russian criminals back to Russia
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ACLU
- American Civil Liberties Union
- thought Palmer Raids was unconstitutional
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Socco & Vanzetti
- innocent victoms of the Red Scare
- Wrongly accused and sentenced to death
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Marcus Garvey
- back to Africa Movement
- African Americans should go back to Africa and bring back culture
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The Scopes Trial
John T Scopes relieved of duty for teaching evolution in schools
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1920s:
first Talkie
- The Jazz Singer 1927
- Al Joleson
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Warren Harding
- 29th pres whos policies favored business
- but his administration was known for scandals
- cabinent/ohio gang engaged in scandals
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Albert Fall
took bribes from oil company Teapot Dom Scandal
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Bolshevik
a group of Russiona radicals led by Vladimir I. Lenin who played a major role in the 1917 revolution in Russia
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Communism
A system of gov. in which there is no private property and there are no economic classes
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Red Scare
Widespread frea of communism
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Palmer Raids
A series of gov attacks on suspected radicals in the us led by Palmer
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deportation
being sent back to ones country of orgin
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anarchist
radicals who beelieve in the destruction of gov
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Henry Ford
American business leader who revolution factory production through use of the assembly line and popularized the affordable automobile
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productivity
the amount of product made by a worker or machine
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welfare capitalism
system in which companies provided fringe benefits to employees in an effort to promote worker satisfaction and loyalty
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installment buying
paying for an item over a period of time with a series of small payments
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credit
a system of borrowing money from banks to make a purchase and then paying for it later with interest
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Calvin Coolidge
13th pres known for his honesty and pro business policies
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Charles Evans Hughes
politition who served as secretary of state and participated the Washington Naval Conferance
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Billy Mitchell
general who supported the development of air power in the military
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kellogg
Briand Poet a treat signed in 1928 that rejected was as a means to solving problems between countries
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Billy Sunday
American fundamentalist minister who used colorful language and powerful sermens to drive home the message of salvation through Jesus and to oppose radical and progressive groups
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fundamentalism
a belief in the literal interpretation of a particular religions doctrine or holy books
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Aimee Semple McPherson
American funamentalistpreacher who was well known for her glamorous presentaions
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Clarence Darrow
criminal lawyer defended John Scopes right to teach evolution in the Scopes Trial
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William Jennings Bryan
lawyer and populist politician favored the free coinage of silver. lead the prosecuction in scopes trial
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bootlegger
people who smuggled liquar during prohibition
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Zora Neale Hurston
African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance
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Great Migration
the major relocation of African Americans to northern cities from 1910-1920
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Harlem Renaissance
a blossoming of African American art and lit that began in the 1920s
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James Weldon Johnson
NAACP leader and Harlem Renaissance writer who wrote poetry an the song "lift every vioce and sing"
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Langston Hughes
African American poet who described the rich culter of African American life using rhythms influenced by jazz music wrote of African American hop and defiance as well as the culture of Harlem and also had major impact on the Harlem Renaissance
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Paul Roberson
African American actor and singer who promoted African American rights and left-wing causes
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Louis Armstrong
leading African American jazz musician during the Harlem
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Bessie Smith
African American blues singer who played an important part in Harlem
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D.W. Griffith
Filmaker who produced Birth of a Nation during World War 1 wich introduced many advanced filmaking techniques
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charlie chaplin
british comediam and mavie star he because famous for plaing the character of the "little tramp "
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Charles A Linderbergh
american pilot who because the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean
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Amelia Earhart
First woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean set many speen and distance records
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
American Writer famous for his novels and stories such as The Great Gatsby
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George Gershavin
composer whose famous piece Phapsody in Blue shoed the impsct of Jazz on the 20s
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Immigrants
- sever immigration laws,smaller numbers came from East Asia
- Made America more diverse
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Reactions to immigrants
nativists blamed immigrants for increases in crime and poverty and said they took jobs
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Chinese Exclusion Act
- 1882
- banning immigration and banned Chinese immigrants from becoming citizens
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Americanization
the process of blending new immigrant into American society
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settlement house
- a place where volunteers offered immigrants services
- 1st was Hull house founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr
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Social Gospel
The idea that faith should be expressed throught good works
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Commerce Act
- 1887
- called for reasonable railroad rates
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election of 1896
the Louisiana legislature passed a law requireing African Americans to ride in separate rail way cars from whites
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The Jungle
- Exposed shocking stock yards
- responsible for passage of Pure Food & Drug Act
- and Meat Inspection Act
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Muller v. Oregon
long hours health of women and threatened public interest supreme court to uphold a state law established a 10h day
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Jacob Riis
- wrote about the lives of impoverised immigrants in New York
- How The Other Half Lived
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Ida Tarbell
wrote about the condeming the business practices of the standard Oil Company
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Tenement Act of 1901
act forced landlords to install lighting in public hallways and to provide at least one toilet for every two families
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NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Seventeenth Amendment
gave voters rather than state legislatures the power to directly elect their US senators
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Beringia
A land bridge that connected the continents of Asia and North America during the Ice Age
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Magna Carta
a document showed that limits could be placed on royal power
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Reformation
a religious crisis within the Catholic Church in the 1500s led by those seeking reforms with the Church
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Christopher Columbus
Began the process of European colocnization of the Americas
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Viceroyalties
provinces ruled by viceroys the direct representative of a monarch
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missionaries
people who convert others to a religion sent by the church to teach others
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Fray Junipero Serra
a Franciscan friar who founded the first of many Californian missionaries
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Roanoke
site of Englands first attempt to establish a permanent colony in the Americas in the late 1500
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Jamestown
the first English colony that survived
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House of Burgesses
Americas first legislature law-making body by representitives from different comunities in Virginia
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indentured servants
agreed to work as servants for a certain number of years in return for food, shelter and paid trip to America
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Puritans
English Protestants thought the Reformation did not go for enough
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Mayflower Compact
a legal contract in wich thay agreed to make laws to protect the general good
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mercantilism
economic principles gov held that a nations power was directly related
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salutary neglect
when the colonies are benefited by being left alone
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plantation
a large farm usually in warm climate with unskilled labor forced that grows one cash crop
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Middle Passage
the difficult trip across the Atlantic
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Enlightenment
the period in Europe thinkers thought that logic and reason could improve society, law, and gov
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Great Awakening
A major religious revival in the colonies
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Johnathan Edwards
appealed to his listeners fears and emotions told listeners only Gods grace and their own faith and good works could save them
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French and Indian War
France joined with some Indian nations to attack England
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Proclamation of 1763
law created by British officials that prohibited colonists from settling in areas west of the Appalachian Mountains
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Stamp Act
required colonists to pay for an afficial gov stamp on certain paper items
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boston Massacre
British soldiers fired into an angry crowd gathered outside a customs hous March 5 1770
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Thomas Jefferson
a member the Second Continental Congress
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George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army
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Common Sense
a pamphlet by Thomas Paine that condemned the whole system of the monatchy and the rule of George III
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Declaration on Independence
announced the colonies break with Great Britian
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Treaty of Paris
Britian recognized the independence of the US
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Marbury vs Madison
The supreme Court ruled that the Constitution did not give the court power to make Madison deliver the commusion
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Sugar Act
placed a tax on all duties or taxes on molasses and sugar imported to North America from places outside the British Empire
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Declatory Act
declared Parliaments right to make laws concerning the colonists without their consent
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