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13 Black Kettle
chief of the Cheyene Indians who brought several hundred to Sand Creek to negotiate a peace deal in 1864
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13 William Fetterman
Was an officer in the U.S. Army in the civil war and in Red Clouds War. He was killed at Fetterman's massacre.
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13 George A. Custer
commander of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry that was massacered by the Lakota and Cheyene Indians
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13 Virginia Clay
Senator wife from Huntsville, AL she moved in high society in Washington D.C. she and her husband were accussed of being in the plot to kill Abraham Lincoln and were put in jail
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13 Henry Comstock
one of the richest gold and silver strikes in history was named after him
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13 John Chivington
A U.S. colonel of the Colorado Volunteers who refused to negotiate with the Cheyene Indians led by Black Kettle at Sand Creek he led his cavalry troops into an attack on the Indians where over 1400 troops were killed and possibly up to 600 Indians
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13 Sitting Bull
Chief of the Indians who fought and defeated Custer at the battle of the Little Big Horn
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13 Sedalia
home of the scott joplin ragtime festival in missouri
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13 Abilene
established by cattlemen as a stock shipping point
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13 vigilance committees
was a group formed of private citizens to administer law and order where they considered governmental structures to be inadequate. ...
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13 longhorn
type of cattle
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13 Little Crow
Chief of the Crow people. The government was a month late with payments Chief Little Crow asked for food on credit and he was told to let them eat grass or dung. This caused an usrising in the Dakato territory
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13 Crazy Horse
One of the chiefs that led the Lakota and Sioux in defending their lands.
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13 range wars
several battles with the indians and settlers to keep their hunting grounds and lands
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13 barbed wire
a type of fencing used on the open ranges
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13 frontier
a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country
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13 long drive
from setatic to Missouri
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14 fixed costs
costs a company must pay whether or not it is operating
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14 holding companies
a company whose primary business is owning a controlling share of stock in other companies
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14 operating costs
costs that occur while running a company
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14 Pacific Railway Act
The Pacific Railway Acts were a series of acts of Congress that promoted the construction of the transcontinental railroad in the United States through authorizing the issuance of government bonds and the grants of land to railroad companies.
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14 Andrew Carnegie
was a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, entrepreneur and a major philanthropist.
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14 Edwin Drake
was an American oil driller, popularly credited with being the first to drill for oil in the United States.
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14 Jay Gould
was an American financier who became a leading American railroad developer and speculator. He has long been vilified as an archetypal robber baron, whose successes made him the ninth richest American in history.
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14 John D. Rockefeller
was an American oil magnate. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy. In 1870, he founded the Standard Oil Company
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14 Industrial union
an organization of common laborers and craft workers in a particular industry
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14 trade union
an organization of workers with the same trade or skill
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14 trust
a combination of firms or corporations formed by a legal agreement especially to reduce competition
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14 Karl Marx
wrote the communist manifesto and is considered the father of communism
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14 Samuel Gompers
American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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14 Thomas Alva Edison
invented the light bulb
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14 Eugene V. Debs
American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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14 air brakes
A system that uses compressed air to push the brake shoes onto the train wheels
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14 laissez-faire
policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation's economy
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14 Northrop automatic loom
The Northrop Loom was a fully automatic power loom marketed by George Draper Co, Hopedale, Massachusetts in 1895. It was named after James Henry Northrop who invented the shuttle-charging mechanism.
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14 Cornelius Vanderbilt
was an American entrepreneur. He built his wealth in shipping and railroads and was the patriarch of the Vanderbilt family and one of the richest Americans in history.
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14 Alexander Graham Bell
invented the telephone
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14 Eugene V. Debs
American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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15 Horatio Algerzas
an American author who expressed the idea of individualism in his rags to riches stories about regular American people
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15 Thomas Eakins
American realist artist who painted people in day to day tasks
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15 Charles Darwin
wrote the theory of evolution
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15 Samuel Clemens
Mark Twains real name
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15 Edward Bellamy
was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, set in the year 2000
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15 Lillian Wald
Lillian D. Wald was a practical idealist who worked to create a more just society. Her goal was to ensure that women and children, immigrants and the poor, and members of all ethnic and religious groups would realize America's promise of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
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15 Dwight L. Moody
minister and organizer of the American YMCA
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15 Andrew Carnegie
gospel of wealth the wealthy Americans have the responsibility to engage in philanthropy
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15 Mark Twain
real name Samuel Clemons american author who wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
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15 Scott Joplin
One of the most important American ragtime composers
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15 Charles Warner
wrote a novel with Mark Twain entitled the Gilded Age to sound an alarm about society
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15 Booker T. Washington
African American researcher, scientist and inventor. developed many products from the peanut
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15 Andrew Carnegie
Gospel of wealth
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15 Walter Rauschenbusch
was a Christian theologian and Baptist minister. He was a key figure in the Social Gospel movement in the United States of America.
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15 Edith Wharton
a realistic American author
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15 Herbert Spencer
was an English philosopher, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era.
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15 Jane Addams
estaqblished settlement houses in poor neighborhoods in which middle class people lived and helped poor immigrants
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15 Henry George
Published Progress and Poverty
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15 Washington Gladden
tried to apply what he called Christian Law to social problems
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15 Lester Frank Ward
published Dynamic Sociology he argued that humans were different from animals in nature because they could think ahead and plan
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16 Booker T. Washington
Organized the Tuskeegee Institute for African Americans an industrial and agricultural school
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16 Chester A. Arthur
21st president of the united states
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16 lynchings
executing without proper court proceedings
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16 Grover Cleveland
22nd president of the United States
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16 grandfather clause
it allowed individuals who did not pass the literacy test to vote if their fathers or grandfathers had voted
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16 "The Crime of 73"
Those who wanted silver coinage had a compaign to get coins made out of silver. Later this became known as the crime of 73
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16 William McKinley
25 th president of the u.s. and last veteran of the civil war
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16 Plessy V. Ferguson
supreme court decision that made it illegal for the separation of the blacks and whites
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16 Atlanta Compromise
speech by Booker T. Washington to help settle race relations
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16 goldbugs
believed the American currency should be based only on gold
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16 Ida Wells
African American journalist and newspaper editor and anti-lynchings crusader
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16 Benjamin "Pap" Singleton
leader in the great exodus that brought thousands of African Americans west
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16 Homer Plessy
an African American who was famous for his court case of plessy vs ferguson he was a black man sitting in a whites only car on a train
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16 subtreasury
a plan to allow american farmers to store their crops in federal warehouses during times of low prices and wait to sell them later
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16 silverities
believed coining silver in unlimited quanities would end the nations economic crisis
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16 Jim Crow
statutes or laws enforcing segregation
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16 James A. Garfield
20th president of the u.s.
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16 Charles W. Macune
leader of the texas and national farmers alliance
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16 William Jennings Bryan
delivered the most famous speech in american history at the democratic national convention the cross of gold speech about the coinage of silver
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16 W.E.B. Du Bois
first african american to earn a phd at Harvard. he was a civil rights activist against racism.
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17 Roosevelt Corollary
policy that the United States would intervene in Latin America
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17 Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
Brittain signed exclusive canal rights over to the U.S.
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17 Foraker Act
organis act of 1900 established a civilian government on the island of puerto rico
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17 Phillippe Bunau-Varilla
helped influence the u.s. construction cite of the panama canal
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17 William Howard Taft
27th president of the u.s.
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17 James G. Blaine
advocate of black suffrage he was a u.s. representative for 20 years.
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17 Alfred T. Mahan
wrote a book The Influence of Sea Power upon History. It said the country with the best navy would control the world
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17 Pan-Americanism
the idea that the United States and the Latin American nations should work together
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17 Matthew C. Perry
commander of the u.s. navy and compelled the opening of Japan to the west.
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17 profectorate
a country that is protected by another country or countries
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17 Theodore Roosevelt
26th president of the u.s.
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17 Enrique Dupuy de Lome
a spanish ambassador to america he wrote a letter that defamed president mckinley and that eventually led to the spanish american war
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17 Josiah Strong
one of the founders of the social gospel movement
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17 Open Door Policy
allows nations to trade freely with other nations
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17 Anglo-Saxonism
the idea that English speaking nations are superior
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17 dollar diplomacy
a plan by President Taft that promoted mutual economic development
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17 Emilio Aguinaldo
was a Filipino general, politician, and independence leader. He played an instrumental role during the Philippines' revolution against Spain, and the subsequent Philippine-American War that resisted American occupation.
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17 John Hay
was an American statesman, diplomat, author, journalist, and private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln.
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17 Liliuokalani
Queen of the hawaiian islands. She was the last remaining monarch of Hawaii. She felt she was to preserve the hawaiian way of life
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18 muckraker
a journalist who uncovers abuses and corruption in society
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18 temperance
refers to laws banning the manufacture, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages
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18 Children's Bureau
established by Taft to investigate and publicize child labor problems
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18 Wisconsin
political reform first came to the state level when voters in this state elected Robart La Follette as a Republican governor
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18 prohibition
moderation in or the abstinance from alcohol
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18 commission plan
divides a city's government into different departments under the control of a commissioner
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18 workers' compensation
is a form of insurance that provides compensation medical care for employees who are injured in the course of employment
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18 Richard A. Ballinger
was mayor of Seattle, Washington, from 1904–1906 and U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1909–1911.
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18 Meat Inspection Act
requires the United States Department of Agriculture to inspect all cattle, sheep, goats, and horses when slaughtered and processed into products for human consumption
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18 Woodrow Wilson
28th president of the u.s leader of the progressive movement
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18 Nineteenth Amendment
right to vote
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18 initiative
provides a means by which a petition signed by a certain minimum number of registered voters can force a public vote (plebiscite) on a proposed statute, constitutional amendment, charter amendment or ordinance, or, in its minimal form, to simply oblige the executive or legislative bodies to consider the subject by submitting it to the order of the day. It is a form of direct democracy
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18 Ida Tarbell
She was known as one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era, work known in modern times as "investigative journalism
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18 Sixteenth Amendment
income tax
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18 Seventeenth Amendment
direct election of u.s. senators by popular vote
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18 referendum
is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal
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19 Black Hand
group of people that assinated archduke ferdinand
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19 Ferdinand Foch
supreme commander of the allied forces
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19 Vladimir Lenin
bolshevik leader
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19 Sussex Pledge
promise not to sink more merchant ships without warning
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19 Bernard Baruch
stockbroker who led the war industries board
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19 Pancho Villa
mexican gorilla leader that conducted raids into the u.s.
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19 Liberty Bonds
method of loaning money to the goverment to pay for war
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19 John Pershing
general who failed to capture pancho villa
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19 espionage
spying to acquire government secrets
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19 Four-minute Men
gave patriotic speaches urging support of war
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20 Bessie Smith
singer who seemed to symbolize soul
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20 Oscar Depriest
first african american elected to congress from a northern state
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20 Billy Sunday
former major league baseball player who turned evangelical fundamentalist preacher
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20 Al Capone
gangster in chicago during prohibition
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20 Great Migration
created powerful african american voting blocks in northern cities
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20 mass media
helped spread the news and attitudes of the 1920's
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20 Bohemian
artistic and unconventional lifestyle in the 1920's
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20 Marcus Garvey
leader of the back to africa movement
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20 William Jennings Bryan
was an American politician in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. He was a dominant force in the liberal wing of the Democratic Party
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20 Duke Ellington
composer, pianist, and bandleader whose sound was a blend of improvisation and orchestration
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20 bootlegging
illegal production and distribution of liquor
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20 flappers
was a term applied to a "new breed" of young Western women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.
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20 eugenics
applied science or the biosocial movement which advocates the use of practices aimed at improving the genetic composition of a population
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20 creationism
the idea that God made the world as described in the Bible
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20 Charles Lindbergh
pilot of the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight
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20 Langston Hughes
writer who became the leading voice of the african american experience in America
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20 Margaret Mead
helped spread the new ideas and attitudes of the 1920's
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20 evolution
the idea that human beings developed from lower forms of life
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20 police powers
a governments right to control people and property in the interest of public safety, health, welfare and morals
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20 Scopes trial
act that outlawed the teaching of evolution
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19 World War I - Allied Powers, Central Powers, Neutral Nations
study the mao in your book p. 579.
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