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| Film that glorified the South and the KKK; proved that films could be a serious, if flawed, art form | Birth of a Nation
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| Plan to dump American farm surpluses on the world market in order to raise prices at home; vetoed by Coolidge; highlighted the problems of farmers | McNary-Haugen Bill
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| Factories re-tooled after the war to make things to appeal to Americans such as appliances and cars; used advertising to create a mass culture and redefine social values | Consumer culture
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| Unprecedented outburst of creative activity among African Americans in all fields of art; exposed whites to black culture for the first time | Harlem Renaissance
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| Implemented prohibition and defined an illegal beverage as having over 1% alcohol | Volsted Act
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| Contemporary way of thinking by the elite; used reason and experiments to determine the truth | Modernism
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| First "talkie" motion picture | The Jazz Singer
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| Ratified in 1919; prohibited the manufacture, sale or transportation of alcohol | 18th Amendment
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| 1924 law that loaned gold to Germany in an attempt to help Germany stabilize its economy and pay reparations | Dawes Plan
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| 1930 law which raised rates on foreign imports and damaged the international economy | Hawley-Smoot Tariff
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| Slogan of Harding's 1920 presidential campaign; reaction against foreign crusades and Wilsonian reforms | Return to Normalcy
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| Name given to American expatriate writers who wrote about rebellious people, criticized society, and expressed disillusionment after WWI | Lost Generation
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| Experienced a resurgence in the 1920s; directed against blacks, Catholics, Jews, foreigners, and radicals | KKK
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| Reaction against immigration; represented a belief that anyone who was not white, of English ancestry, and Protestant could not be trusted | Nativism
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| Aimed at restricting immigrants from southern and central Europe and Asia | National Origins Act
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| Meeting which resulted in an agreement to set limits on the size of each nation's navy | Washington Conference
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| Political scandal involving a member of Harding's cabinet | Teapot Dome
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| 1928 treaty which committed the 63 nations signing it to never using war as a means of resolving international conflicts; the US signed it | Kellogg-Briand Pact
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| Championed black separatism, led by Marcus Garvey | Universal Negro Improvement Association
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