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Was the 29th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1921 until his death in 1923

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Warren G. Harding

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Was the 30th President of the United States

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Calvin Coolidge

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Was the 46th and 48th Governor of Ohio, U.S. Representative from Ohio and Democratic candidate for President of the United States in the election of 1920

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James M. Cox

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Was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Was an American banker, businessman, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector, and politician

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Andrew Mellon

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Was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding

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Teapot Dome Scandal

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Was a United States Senator from New Mexico and the Secretary of the Interior under President Warren G. Harding, infamous for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal

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Albert Fall

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Was an American politician, diplomat and lawyer

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John W. Davis

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Is a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

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Was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production

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Henry Ford

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An automobile with a 2.9-liter, 4-cylinder engine, produced by the Ford Motor Company from 1909 through 1927, considered to be the first motor vehicle successfully mass-produced on an assembly line

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Model T

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Is a manufacturing process (most of the time called a progressive assembly) in which parts (usually interchangeable parts) are added as the semi-finished assembly moves from workstation to workstation where the parts are added in sequence until the final assembly is produced

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Moving Assembly Line

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An 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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Was an American statesman who was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in 1928

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Alfred E. Smith

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Was an American politician, the 14th Governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927 and director of the United States Mint from 1933 to 1953

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Nellie Tayloe Ross

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Was the first female Governor of Texas, serving from 1925 to 1927 and 1933 to 1935

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Miriam “Ma” Ferguson

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A fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior

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flappers

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Is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism

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Red Scare

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Were a series of raids conducted by the United States Department of Justice to capture, arrest and deport suspected radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States

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Communism Palmer Raids

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Were 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, United States

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Nicola Sacco

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Were 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, United States

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Bartolomeo Vanzetti

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Is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization whose stated mission is “to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country

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ACLU

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A 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

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National Origins Act of 1924

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Of the United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession) illegal

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Eighteenth Amendment

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Was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933

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Prohibition

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Was enacted to carry out the intent of the Eighteenth Amendment, which established prohibition in the United States

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Volstead Act

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Rose to infamy as the leader of the Chicago Outfit during the Prohibition era

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Al “Scar-face” Capone

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To the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 16, 1919. The Twenty-first Amendment was ratified on December 5, 1933

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Twenty-first Amendment

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Existing in or as part of a tradition; long-established

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Traditional

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A form of a 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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Also known as Sister Aimee or simply Sister, was a Canadian-American Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s, famous for founding the Foursquare Church

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Aimee Semple McPherson

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was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925 with violating Tennessee’s Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools

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John T. Scopes

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Was an American legal case in May 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee’s Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach

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Scopes Trial

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Was the movement of 5 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1915 and 1960

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Great Migration of the 1920’s

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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is a civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of “people of color”

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NAACP

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Was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a proponent of the Pan-African ism movement

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Marcus Garvey

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Is the oldest surviving Latino civil rights organization in the U.S.

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LULAC

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Is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast

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National Broadcasting Company

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Is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation

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Columbia Broadcasting System

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Is a 1927 American musical film, As the first feature-length motion picture with not only a synchronized recorded music score, but also lip-synchronous singing and speech in several isolated sequences, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of sound films and the decline 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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Was an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer

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Douglas Fairbanks

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Was a Canadian-American film actress, writer, director, and producer

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Mary Pickford

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Was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1932

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George Herman Ruth

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

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Satchel Paige

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Was an American Negro league baseball catcher, Baseball historians consider Gibson to be among the very best power hitters and catchers in the history of any league, including Major League Baseball

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Josh Gibson

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Was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in five events

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Gertrude Ederle

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Was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist

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Charles Lindbergh

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Was an American aviation pioneer and author, Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

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Amelia Earhart

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Was an 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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Is a term for Western society and Western culture during the 1920s

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Roaring Twenties

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Was a period in the 1920s, ending with the Great Depression, in which jazz music and dance styles became popular, mainly in the United States, but also in Britain, France and elsewhere

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Jazz Age

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The action or process of innovating

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Innovation

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Was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years

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Edward “Duke” Ellington

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Was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s

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Harlem Renaissance

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Was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri

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Langston Hughes

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Was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations

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Ernest Hemingway

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The generation reaching maturity during and just after World War I, a high proportion of whose men were killed during those years

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Lost Generation

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A person who lives outside their native country

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Expatriates

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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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Was an American artist

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Georgia O’Keeffe

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