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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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| Anarchist | People who opposed any form of government.
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| Sacco and Vanzetti | Arrested and charged with the robbery and murder of factory paymaster and his guard in South Braintree, Massachusetts.
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| Quota system | Established the maximum number of people who could enter the U.S from each foreign country.
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| John L. Lewis | United Mine Workers of America organization leader.
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| Warren G. Harding | Described as a good-natured man who "looked like a president ought to look."
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| Charles Evans Hughes | Urged that no more warships be built for ten years.
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| Fordney-McCumber Tariff | Raised taxes on U.S imports to 60 percent.
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| Ohio gang | The president's poker-playing cronies.
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| Teapot Dome scandal | Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall's secret leasing of oil-rich public land to private companies in return for money and land.
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| Albert B. Fall | A close friend of various oil executives.
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| Calvin Coolidge | The new president.
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| Urban Sprawl | Cities began spreading in all directions.
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| Installment plan | Enabled people to buy goods over an extended period of time without having to put down much money at the time of purchase.
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| Prohibition | The manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages was legally prohibited.
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| Speakeasies | A place drinkers went that was a secret saloon or nightclub.
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| Bootleggers | Smuggled liquor from Canada, Cuba, and the West Indies.
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| Fundamentalism | The Protestant movement grounded in a 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 trial | A fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and American history.
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| Flapper | An emancipated young woman 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 women.
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| Charles A. Lindbergh | Made the first non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic.
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| George Gershwin | A concert music composer who merged traditional elements with American jazz, thus creating a new sound that was indefinably American.
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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 a Nobel Prize in literature. Wrote the Babbitt.
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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 Hemmingway | Became the best known expatriate author.
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| Zora Neale Hurston | A girl in Eatonville, Florida. Went after the good life in America.
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| James Weldon Johnson | Poet, lawyer, and NAACP executive secretary.
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| Marcus Garvey | An immigrant from Jamaica that believed 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 | A novelist poet and Jamaican immigrant.
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| Langston Hughes | The movement's best-known poet.
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| Paul Robeson | The son of a one-time slave who became a major dramatic actor.
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| Louis Armstrong | Joined Joe "King" Oliver's group known as the Creole Jazz Band. Eventually, he joined Fletcher Henderson's band.
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| Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington | A jazz pianist and composer who led his ten-piece orchestra at the Cotton Club.
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| Bessie Smith | A female blues singer.
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