Chapter 12 and 13
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| Nativism | Prejudice against foreign-born people.
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| Isolationism | A policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs.
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| Communism | An economic and political system based on a single-party government ruled by a dictatorship .
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| Anarchists | People who oppose any form of government.
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| Sacco and Vanzetti | Both were Italian immigrants and anarchists; both had evaded the draft during World War I.
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| Quota system | Established the maximum number of people who could enter the United States from each foreign country.
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| John L. Lewis | New leader of the United Mine Workers. Called his labor unions out on strike.
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| Warren G. Harding | described as a good-natured man who "looked like a president ought to look" he assumed presidency in 1921.
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| Charles Evans Hughes | Urged that no more warships be built for ten years. He suggested that the five major naval powers (U.S. GB Japan France Italy) scrap many of their largest warships.
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| Fordney-McCumber Tariff | raised taxes on U.S. imports to 60 percent- the highest level ever. the tax protected u.s. businesses- from foreign competition.
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| Ohio Gang | the presidents poker-playing cronies.
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| Teapot Dome scandal | the government had set aside oil-rich public lands for use by the u.s. navy.
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| Albert B. Fall | managed to get the oil reserves transferred from the navy to the interior department.
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| Calvin Coolidge | fit into the pro-business spirit of the 1920s very well.
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| Urban sprawl | cities spread in all directions.
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| Installment Plan | enabled people to buy goods over an extended period.
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| Prohibition | manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic drinks were legally prohibited.
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| Speakeasy | to obtain liquor illegally, drinkers went underground to hidden saloons and nightclubs known as speakeasies.
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| Bootlegger | smuggled alcohol in from other countries.
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| Fundamentalism | the protestant movement grounded in literal or non symbolic interpretation of the bible
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| Clarence Darrow | the most famous trail lawyer of the day. Defended scopes.
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| Scopes trail | fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in the american society.
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| flapper | an emancipated young women who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day.
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| double standard | a set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women.
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| Charles A Lindbergh | made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic.
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| George Gershwin | Merged traditional elements with american jazz.
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| Georgia O'Keeffe | produced intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of New York.
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| Sinclair Lewis | the first american to win the noble prize in literature.
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| F. Scott Fitzgerald | coined the term "Jazz age" to describe the 1920s
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| Edna St. Vincent Millay | wrote poems celebrating youth and a life of independence and freedom from traditional constraints.
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| Ernest Hemingway | wounded in world war I became the best known expatriate author.
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| Zora Neale Hurston | was in a traveling theater company and attended Howard University.
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| James Weldon Johnson | poet, lawyer, and NAACP executive secretary.
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| Marcus Garvey | an immigrant from Jamaica believed that African Americans should build a separate society.
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| Harlem Renaissance | a literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture.
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| Claude McKay Langston | urged African Americans to resist prejudice and discrimination.
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| Paul Robeson | son of a former slave, became a major dramatic actor.
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| Louis Armstrong | a young trumpet player, his talent rocketed him to stardom in the jazz world.
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| Duke Ellington | a jazz pianist and composer, led his ten-piece orchestra at the cotton club.
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| Bessie Smith | a female blues singer, was perhaps the outstanding vocalists of the decade.
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| Langston Hughes | the movements best known poet.
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