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Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act

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(1922) Federal law that raised tariff rates on manufactured goods and levied high duties on imported agricultural goods.

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Teapot Dome

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Albert B. Fall (Secretary of the Interior) leased oil rich land in Teapot Dome, Wyoming, and Elk Hills, California, to oilmen Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny, but not until Fall had received a “loan” of $100,000 form Doheny and about three times that amount from Sinclair. This scandal occurred during Harding’s presidency.

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open shop

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A company with a labor agreement under which union membership cannot be required as a condition of employment.

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welfare capitalism

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An approach to labor relations in which companies meet some of their workers’ needs (improved benefits and higher wages) without prompting by unions, thus preventing strikes and keeping productivity high

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jazz age

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Youth expressed their rebellion against their elders’ culture by dancing to this music. Brought north by African American musicians, this music became a symbol of the new and modern culture of the cities.

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consumerism (autos, radio, movies)

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Automobiles became more affordable; there was an average of one car per family in the US. The production of the automobile became important to industry and changed all that Americans did socially. The radio enabled people from one end of the country to the other to listen to the same pograms. 1st radio station in 1920. The movie industry became big in the 1920s and movie starts were idolized. By 1929, 80 million tickets were sold each week.

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Charles Lindbergh

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Mail service pilot who became a celebrity when he made the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927; he later became a leading isolationist.

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Margaret Sanger

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American leader of the movement to legalize birth control during the early 1900’s. As a nurse in the poor sections of New York City, she had seen the suffering caused by unwanted pregnancy. Founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S. and the American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood.

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modernism

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Modernists took a historical and critical view of the Bible and believed they could accept Darwin’s theory of evolution without abandoning their religious.

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fundamentalism

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Those who condemned the modernists and taught that every word of the Bible must be accepted as literally true. God created the universe in seven days.

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Billy Sunday and Aimee Semple McPherson

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Radio revivalists; Billy Sunday attacked drinking, gambling, and dancing. Aimee McPherson condemned the evils of communism and jazz music.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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He belonged to the Lost Generation of Writers. He wrote the famous novel “The Great Gatsby” which explored the glamour and cruelty of an achievement-oriented society. Expressed disillusionment with the ideals of an earlier time and with the materialism of a business-oriented culture.

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Ernest Hemingway

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Wrote “A Farewell to Arms”, “The Old Man and the Sea”, and “The Sun Also Rises”; American writer and journalist; veteran of WWI, belongs to literary movement called ‘The Lost Generation’

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Sinclair Lewis

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American novelist who satirized middle-class America in his 22 works, including Babbitt (1922) and Elmer Gantry (1927). He was the first American to receive (1930) a Nobel Prize for literature. Part of the Lost Generation.

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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Architect-“form follows function”-led to skyscrapers with little decoration

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Harlem Renaissance

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Black artistic movement in New York City in the 1920s, when writers, poets, painters, and musicians came together to express feelings and experiences, especially about the injustices of Jim Crow; leading figures of the movement included Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Duke Ellington, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes.

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Langston Hughes/Lames Weldon Johnson/Claude McKay

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African American poets during Harlem Renaissance; their poems about African American culture expressed a range of emotions from bitterness and resentment to joy and hope.

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Duke Ellington/Louis Armstrong/Bessie Smith/Paul Robeson

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African American jazz musicians/singers during the Harlem Renaissance; often were still segregated.

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Marcus Garvey

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African American leader during the 1920s who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and advocated mass migration of African Americans back to Africa. Was deported to Jamaica in 1927.

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Scopes Trial

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1925 highly publicized court case argued by Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan in which the issue of teaching evolution in public schools was debated

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Volstead Act

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Federal law enforcing the 18th Amendment-Prohibition;the Act specified that “no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, furnish or possess any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act.” It did not specifically prohibit the purchase or use of intoxicating liquors

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Immigration/Quota Laws (1921 & 1924)

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The first of these acts greatly limited immigration to 3 percent of the number of foreign-born persons from a given nation counted in the 1910 census. The second of these passed by Congress ensured the discrimination against Southern and Eastern European Immigrants by setting the quotas of 2 percent based on the Census of 1890.

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Sacco & Vanzetti

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Italian radicals who became symbols of the Red Scare of the 1920s; arrested (1920), tried and executed (1927) for a robbery/murder, they were believed by many to have been innocent but convicted because of their immigrant status and radical political beliefs.

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Washington Conference

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1921-An international conference on the limitation of naval fleet construction begins in Washington. Under the leadership of the American Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes the representatives of the USA, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan pledge not to exceed the designated sizes of their respective naval fleets

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Kellogg-Briand Treaty

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1928-This Treaty renounced the aggressive use of force to achieve national ends; almost all the nations of the world signed it. It proved ineffective because it 1) permitted defensive wars 2) failed to provide for taking action against the violators of the treaty. .

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war debts/reparations

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Britain and France owed the US more than 10 billion. Germany had to pay 30 billion in reparations to the Allies.

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Dawes Plan

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1924 Created by Charles Dawes, a banker-A plan to revive the German economy, the United States loans Germany money which then can pay reparations to England and France, who can then pay back their loans from the U.S. This circular flow of money was a success until the stock market crash of 1929.