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American Dream
everyone should have the same opportunity regardless of social class or circumstances of birth
The decoration of independence
the 13 colonies that were at war with Great Britain would declare themselves as 13 individual independent sovereign states
Founding fathers declaration
group of white men that made laws for the declaration of independence
changing role of women
19th amendment gave women right to vote
Flappers
generation of young western women
wore shirt skirts listened to Jaxx
seen as brash for wearing makeup, drinking, smoking and treating sex in a casual manner
Jim Crow Laws
local laws that enforced racial segregation in the southern states
done by white democratics
white supremacy in America
kulux klan
Miscegenation laws
laws enforced segregation at the level of marriage and intimate relationships by criminalising interracial marriage
prohibition - speakeasies
forbidden establishment that sells alcohol 1920-1933
bootlegging
illegal business of transporting / smuggling alcohol where it is a forbidden law