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Roaring 20s
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Red scare | Promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism or a naturalism by a society or state |
| Nativism | Political policy of promoting the interest of native in habitants against those of immigrants including the support of immigration restriction measures |
| Teapot dome scandal | A scandal involving the administration of the United States President Warren convinced of excepting bribes from oil companies |
| Henry Ford | Founder of Ford motor company and chief developer of the assembly line techniques of mass production |
| Speculation | Purchase of an asset with the hope that it will become more valuable in the future |
| 18th amendment | Drinking prohibited |
| Scopes monkey trial | A trial that began because a teacher was accused of teaching evolution to students |
| 19th Amendment | Women were given the right to vote |
| Great migration | The black migration was a movement of 6 million African-Americans the rural South there in United States to the urban north east Midwest and West that occurred between 1960 and 1970 |
| Harlem Renaissance | intellectual social and artistic explosion created in Harlem Manhattan New York City |