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The Teapot Dome

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When oil field on public land were loaned to private oil companies for a kickback, this scandal erupted. Led by Albert Fall

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19th Amendment

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Women’s Right to Vote

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NAACP

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

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Our country had lots of tension with this country. U.S had strict immigrant restrictions with them.

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Japan

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The Red Scare

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A time period when Americans greatly

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Palmer Raids-

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When Mitchel Palmer and Edgar Hoover start the FBI to round up the reds - communists

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Immigration

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Moving from one place to another

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Calvin Coolidge

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Became president when Harding dies. Vice President for Warren Harding.

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Quota

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A maximum number or quantity that is permitted or needed.

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Warren Harding

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A very corrupt president whose administration was racked with scandalism.

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Quota Act

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Limited the # of immigrants from each country to 3%

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Communism

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A form of government that promoted everything owned by the people.

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KKK

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Originally started by Nathan Bedford Forrest after the civil war. White supremacist group that hated blacks, Jews, Catholics, and Homosexuals.

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Wrote the great gatsby, this side of paradise, the beautiful and damned, and tender is the night, was a jazz age authors.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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First women to fly across the Atlantic

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Amelia Earhart

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President who unsuccessfully tried to fix the Great Depression through volunteer effort.

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Herbert Hoover

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Someone who has made alcohol illegally and smuggles it for a profit.

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Bootlegger.

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The Great Bambino or Sultan of Swat. Famous baseball player from 1914-1935.

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Babe Ruth

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Made drinking and selling alcohol was illegal

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Prohibition - 18th Amendment

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Great Jazz Musicians-

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Louis Armstrong, Count Bessie, Due Ellington.

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A place where alcohol was sold and consumed illegally.

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Speakeasies

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A worker who replaces a striking worker.

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A scab

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First person to fly transatlantic alone.

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Charles Lindbergh

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To stop working as a collective form of protest against and employer.

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Popular music that derived from black people in New Orleans in the late 1800’s.
Jazz
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Difference of Jazz and Blues
Blues is scripted and tells a story and jazz is improv
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A list of people or groups who are under suspicion or excluded from something.
Blacklisted
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A young scandalous women in the 20’s
Flapper
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Charles Lindbergh’s Plane
The spirit of st.Louis
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Wrote books and is considered one of America’s greatest authors, suffered from depression
Ernest hemingway
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A contract that does not allow an employee to be a member of a labor union.
Yellow dog contract
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A government program that provides economic security.
Social Security
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A time period marked by drought, wind, caused destruction of the American Prairie grasses also called black blizzards
Dust Bowl
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A series of 30 evening radio speeches given by president FDR.
Fireside Chats
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Most devastating stock market crash in history stopped by FDR
The great depression.
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An elected office-holder left seemingly powerless after a successor has been elected but hasn’t taken office yet.
Lame Duck
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Basic rights that all citizens of a society are supposed to have.
Civil Rights
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A place that serves free food to people
Soup Kitchens
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Repeals the 18th amendment.
The 21st amendment
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The domestic policy of FDR
The New Deal
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The most unhealthy economic time period in American History
Great Depression
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A line of people waiting for handouts of free food
Breadlines
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Limits the presidency to two terms
22nd Amendment
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Scopes Trial
John Scopes was accused of teaching Evolution Prosecutor - William Jennings Bryan Defense Lawyer - Clarence Darrow
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Fundamentalism
Taking the bible word for word and not teaching evolution.
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1920 election
Warren G. Harding vs. James Cox Harding wins Harding dies and Coolidge becomes president
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Election of 1924
Calvin Coolidge wins again.
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1928 Election
Herbert Hoover vs Al Smith Hoover wins
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1932 Election
FDR vs. Herbert Hoover FDR wins starting hits first term
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1936 Election
FDR wins (2nd term)
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Election of 1940
FDR wins (3rd Term)
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Election of 1944
FDR wins (4th and last term)
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Black Cabinet
Mary Bethune - friend of Elanaur Roosevelt and National Youth Administation, Lyndon B. Johnson - secretary of department of housing and urban development
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Langston Hughes
Wrote NAACP anthem
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Dorothea Lange
Great Depression Photographer
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Reasons of Stock Market Crash
1. Unbalanced Economy 2. Buying on Margin 3. Banks Failed 4. Tariffs 5. Poverty
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FDR 3 r’s and examples
1. Relief (immediate) - Bank Holiday & Emergency Banking Act 2. Recovery (temporary) - agricultural adjustment act & National Industrial Recovery Act 3. Reform (permanent) - securities and exchange commission & Social Securities Administration
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Dates of stock market crash
Black Thursday - October 24th, 1929 Terrible Tuesday - October 29th 1929
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FDR stacked cabinet -
FDR packs the Supreme Court that will be in favor of his bill to be passed which is the new deal program

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