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Roaring 20’s
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Red scare | A "Red Scare" is the promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism or anarchism by a society or state. The name refers to the red flags that the communists use. The term is most often used to refer to two periods in the history of the Un |
| Nativism | the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923. |
| Henry Ford | DescriptionHenry Ford was an American industrialist and business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. |
| Speculation | the forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence. |
| 18th amendment | The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution–which banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors–ushered in a period in American history known as Prohibition. |
| Scopes monkey trial | American legal case in July 1925 in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. |
| 19th amendment | The right for women to vote |
| Great migration | The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and |
| Harlem renaissance | DescriptionThe Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement" |