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29th president in the United States elected on his birthday until his death caused by a heart attack Campaign was promised a return to normalcy lower taxes, less government in businesses, and more business in government

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Warren G Harding

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30 president of the us. Took over when Harding died. Republican lawyer from Vermont. Believed in Laissez faire a hands off policy isolationist

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Calvin Coolidge

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46 and 48th governor of Ohio. Founded the chain of newspapers that continues today the Cox Enterprises and was Democratic candidate for the president of the us in 1920

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James m. Cox

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32nd president of the U.S. elected 4 times. Led country during world war two instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression

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Franklin D Roosevelt

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was a millionaire financier who served as Secretary of the Treasury for 11 years under Republican presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover

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Andrew Mellon

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illegal deals with oil executives

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Teapot Dome Scandal

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takes bribes for the teapot dome scandal sentenced to jail for a year

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Albert Fall

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was an american politician, diplomat and lawyer. He served as a US representative from west Virginia

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John W Davis

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15 nations agree not to make war except for self defense

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kellogg-Briand Pact

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was an american industrialist founder of the Ford Motor Co. and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production

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Henry Ford

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was an american industrialist founder of the Ford Motor Co. and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production

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model T

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a line of factory workers and equipment along which a product being put together passed along between worker and worker until it is complete

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moving Assembly line

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American politician who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the great depression

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Herbert Hoover

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“Al” was American statesman who was elected governor of New york 4 times and was Democratic US presidential candidate in 1928

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Alfred E. Smith

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first female governor of wyoming

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Nellie Taylor Ross

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first female governor of Texas

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Miriam “Ma” Ferguson

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women who wore bobbed hair, makeup, and dresses that fell just above/below their knees. Smoked and drank were rebellious and riske

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Flappers

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rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920. The scare was caused by fears of subversion by communists in the US after the Russian Revolution

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Red Scare

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a political theory derived from Karl Marx, Advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid accordingly to their abilities and needs

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Comminsim

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were series of raid conducted by the United States Department of Justice to capture, arrest and deport suspected radical leftists especially anarchists

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Palmer Raids

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italian born american anarchists who were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the april 15, 1920 armed robbery of the slater and morrill shoe company in braintree Massachusetts US with bartolomeo vanzettu

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Nicola Sacco

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italian born american anarchists who were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the april 15, 1920 armed robbery of the slater and morrill shoe company in braintree Massachusetts USwith Nicola Sacco

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Bartolomeo Vanzetti

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American Civil liberties Union is a nonpartisan, expanded its scope to include protecting free speech rights of artists and striking workers

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ACLU

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Law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and Virtually excluded Asians stayed in effect until the 1960’s

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national Origins act of 1924

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prohibits the sale and manufacturing of alcohol

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18th amendment

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action of forbidding something especially by law

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Prohibition

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different name for 18th amendment prohibiting the sale and manufacturing of alcohol

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Volstead act

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most ruthless crime boss in chicago, dropped out of school at about age 12 have a scar on his face

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Al “ Scarface” Capone

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ends prohibition of the not being able to make or sell alcohol

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21st Amendment

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existing in or as part of a tradition; long established

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traditional

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form of religion especially Islam or Protestant Christianity that upholds belief in the strict literal interpretation of scripture

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Fundamentalism

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AKA Sister Aimee was a canadian american pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in 1920s and 1930s famous for founding the foursquare church

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Aimee Semple McPherson

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Tennessee high schooler violated state law by teaching evolution in a highly publicized trial in 1925 was prosecuted by William jennings and defended by Clarence Darrow

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John T. Scopes

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with eminent lawyer on both sides Tennessee high schooler violated state law by teaching evolution in a highly publicized trial in 1925 was prosecuted by William jennings bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow

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Scope Trial held in 1925

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the US formed in 1909 as a bi-radical organization to advance justice for African Americans

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NAACP

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Jamaican-born black nationalist who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association in the 1920s to encourage self-help among blacks. Opposed to colonialism.

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Marcus Garvey

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League of United Latin Americans Citizens is the oldest organization oldest organization of Hispanic Americans in the US between 1865 and 1920 more Mexicans were lynched in the Southwestern part of the US than African Americans

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LULAC

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NBC is an American commercial broadcast TV network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal founded in 1926 by Radio Corporation of America RCA oldest major broadcast network in US

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National Broadcasting System

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CBS TV founded in 1937 by Arthur Judson in New York

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Columbia Broadcasting System

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1927 American Musical film first full length film end of the silent film era

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Talkie “The Jazz Singer”

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was an english comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame during the era of silent film

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Charlie Chaplin

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american actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. Career rapidly declined with the advent of the “Talkies”

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Douglas Fairbanks

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Was a prolific Canadian-American film actress and producer professionally

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Mary Pickford

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“Babe” Ruth was an American Professional Baseball player whose career in major League baseball spanned 22 seasons from 1914 through 1935

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George Herman Ruth

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Was an American Negro League baseball player and Major League Baseball pitcher who became a legend in his own lifetime by being known as perhaps the best baseball pitcher in baseball history

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Satchel Paige

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was American Negro League baseball catcher. Historians consider him the be the very best power hitter and catcher in history in any league

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Josh Gibson

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female American competition swimmer, olympic champion, and former world record holder in 5 events first women known to swim across the English Channel

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Gertrude Ederle

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first person in the u.s. To fly across atlantic ocean solo

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Charles Lindburgh

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first female flyer to fly solo across atlantic ocean 2nd place in human in us

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Amelia Earhart

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Austrian Neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst

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Sigmund Freud

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a time when many people defied Prohibition indulged in new styles of dancing and dressing, music and ideas, and rejected many traditional moral standards

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Roaring twenties

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created in Harlem form African Americans who moved north Symbolized rebirth and hope

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Jazz Age

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a new method of idea product or thing the action or process of innovating

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Innovation

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Composer american, pianist and bandleader of a jazz orchestra which he lead from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over 50 years

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Edward “Duke” Ellington

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Military service and work give African Americans a new sense of freedom Harlem is the world’s largest black community home for writers, musicians, painters, sculptors, and scholars

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Harlem Renaissance

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was an american poet, social activist, novelist, playwright and columnist from joplin missouri. Innovator of the then-new jazz poetry

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Langston Hughes

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was an american novelist, short story writer, and journalist. Had strong influence on 20th century fiction

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Ernest Hemingway

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famous authors: Ernest Hemingway, F.Scott Fitzgerald (Minnesota)

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Lost Generation

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person who lives outside their native country

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Expatriates

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born in MN was an American Novelist and short story writer whose works illustrate the Jazz Age

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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American Artist. Was best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, new york skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes

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Georgia O’Keefe

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was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern US to the Northeast,Midwest, and west

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Great Migration of the 1920’s

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