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Warren G. Harding

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was the 29th president.

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Calvin Coolidge

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was the 30th president.

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James M. Cox

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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.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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was the 32nd President .

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Andrew Mellon

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was an American banker, businessman, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector, and politician.

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Teapot Dome Scandal

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was a bribery incident.

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Albert Fall

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was a United States Senator from New Mexico.

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John W. Davis

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was an American politician.

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Kellog-Briand Pact

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international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve “disputes or conflicts of whatever nature.

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Henry Ford

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the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line.

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Model T

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an automobile with a 2.9-liter, 4-cylinder engine, produced by the Ford Motor Company.

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Moving Assembly Line

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was invented by henry ford.

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Herbert Hoover

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was an American politician.

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Alfred E. Smith

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was an American statesman who was elected Governor of New York.

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Nellie Tayloe Ross

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the 14th Governor of Wyoming.

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Miriam “Ma” Ferguson

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the first female Governor of Texas.

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Flappers

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rebellious women.

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Red Scare

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

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Communism

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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 according to their abilities and needs.
Palmer Raids.
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Nicola Sacco

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Italian-born American anarchists who were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster.

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Bartolomeo Vanzetti

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Italian-born American anarchists who were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster

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ACLU

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The American Civil Liberties Union is a nonpartisan, non-profit 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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National Orgins Act of 1924

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a law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas.

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Eighteenth Amendment

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banned alcohol.

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Prohibition

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was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages.

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Volstead Act

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was enacted to carry out the intent of the Eighteenth Amendment.

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Al “Scarface” Capone

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was an American gangster who attained fame during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit.

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Twenty-first Amendment

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the transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation to any laws.

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Fundamentalism

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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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Aimee Semple McPherson

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was a Canadian-American Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity.

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John T. Scopes

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was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925 with violating Tennessee’s Butler Act.

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Scopes Trial

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was an American legal case.

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Great Migration of the 1920’s

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was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West.

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NAACP

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the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Marcus Garvey

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was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a proponent of the Pan-Africanism movement.

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LULAC

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All for One and One for All.

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National Broadcasting Company

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television network.

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Columbia Broadcasting System

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commercial broadcast television network.

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talkie “The Jazz Singer”

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was an american musical film.

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Charlie Chaplin

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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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Douglas Fairbanks

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was an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer.

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Mary Pickford

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was a prolific Canadian-American film actress and producer.

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George Herman Ruth

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George Herman Ruth

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Satchel Paige

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was an American Negro league baseball and Major League Baseball pitcher.

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Josh Gibson

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was an American Negro league baseball catcher.

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Charles Lindbergh

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

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Amelia Earhart

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was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

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Sigmund Freud

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was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis.

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Roaring Twenties

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is a term for Western society and Western culture during the 1920s.

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Jazz Age

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was a period in the 1920s.

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Innovation

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the action or process of innovating.

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Edward “Duke” Ellington

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was a composer.

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Harlem Renaissance

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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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Langston Hughes

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was a poet.

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Ernest Hemingway

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was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist.

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Lost Generation

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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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Expatriates

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a person who lives outside their native country.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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was an American novelist and short story writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age.

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Georgia O’Keeffe

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was an American artist.

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talkie “The Jazz Singer”

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was an american musical film.

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Henry Ford

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the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line.

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