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Chapter 25-26 Flashcards

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Who is Calvin Coolidge

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13 US Pres.

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Who is Warren G Harding

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29th US Pres.

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What is isolationist

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One opposed to US involvement in Foreign affairs

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What is an assembly line

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Process of assembling the product whereby workers at various stations add parts to it

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What is a flapper

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Symbol of the 1920s American woman

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What is Prohibition

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The effort to ban alcohol consumption in the United States

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What is the NAACP

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Organization aimed at protecting the rights of African-Americans

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It is the KKK

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Organization that preached racism and white superiority

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What is Harleman Renaissance

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Flourishing of African-American culture activity centered in Harlem District of New York city

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What is Jazz

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A lively style of music developed by African-Americans

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Lost generation

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Name given to the artist who lost faith in humankind because of the war and who felt alienated by the values of the 1920

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Who is Herbert Hoover

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US president elected in 1928

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What is black Tuesday

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October 29, 1929 the day the stock market crashed

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What is the crash of 1929

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Name given to the collapse of the stock market

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Great Depression

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Period bad economy times lasting from 1929 to the start of World War II

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Who is Franklin D Roosevelt

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US president who took office in 1933

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Fireside chat

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Roosevelts radio addresses to the American people

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Social Security act

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Act that created a workers pension fund

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Dust bowl

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Dust damaged Great Plains region covering 150,000 mi.² in the 1930s

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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First Lady and tireless worker to help the poor

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Sitdown strike

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Work stoppage in which labor sit idle inside the plant

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Liberal

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One who favors government action to bring about social economic reform

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Conservative

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One who favors fewer government controls and more individual freedom in economic matters

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