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lesson 2

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Nellie Tayloe Ross and Miriam Ferguson   first women to serve as governors in the USA  
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Flappers   women who challenged traditional ideas of womanhood by wearing makeup, short dresses and a bob  
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Bessie Coleman   became the first African American women to have a pilite license  
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Radicals   people who believe in an extreme change in government  
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Red Scare   a fear of communists, or reds  
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Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer   bomb exploded outside his home  
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Palmer Raids   government agents arrested thousands of suspected radicals, often with no evidence  
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Anarchists   people opposed to organized government  
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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanztti   charged with murder and robbery of a factory paymaster and his guard  
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American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)   founded in 1920, to defend people's civil rights  
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The emergency Quota Act of 1921   limited the total number of immigrants from western Europe  
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The National Origins Act of 1924   banned immigration from East Asia entirely and further reduced the number of immigrant allowed to enter the country  
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18th Amendment   banded the sell, use, transportation, or production of alcoholic beverages  
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Volstead Act   sets fines and punishments for disobeying prohibition  
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Speakeasies   illegal bars  
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Bootleggers   organized criminals that illegally sold alcohol or smuggled it from Canada or mexico  
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Al Capone   gained control of the alcohol trade by murdering the competition nickname = scarface  
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21st Amendment   ended prohibition  
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Fundamentalism   characterized by the belief in a literal, word-for-word, interpretation of the bible  
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Scopes Trial   John T. Scopes was put on trial for teaching evolution because it interfered with the bible  
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Clarence Darrow   led ACLU defense team for Scopes  
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William Jennings Bryan   assisted the prosecution  
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Great Migration   African Americans moving north to get jobs  
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Marcus Garvey   encouraged black people around the world to express pride in their culture  
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United Latin American Citizens (LUCAC   worked to end unfair treatment such as segregation in schools and voting restrictions  
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Indian Citizenship   granted citizenship to native americans  
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