HistoryVocabCh.12&13
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| Nativism | Prejudice against foreign-born people
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| Isolationism | Policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs
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| Communism | Economic and political system based on a single-party government ruled by a dictatorship
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| Anarchists | People who opposed any form of government
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| Sacco and Vanzetti | Arrested and charged with the robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guard in South Brainstree, Massachusetts
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| Quota System | Max. number of people who enter the United States
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| John L. Lewis | Leader of a protest for better working conditions for miners and became a national hero because he got the miners a 27% wage increase
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| Warren G. Harding | Became president in 1921, his words of peace and calm comforted the healing nation
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| Charles Evans Hughes | Urged to stop making warships for ten years and also urged that the great naval powers-The United States, Great Britain, Japan, France, and Italy-scrap many of their largest warships
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| Fordney-McCumber Tariff | Raised taxes on U.S. imports to 60% but made it impossible for Britain and France to sell enough goods in the U.S. to repay debts
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| Ohio Gang | The president's poker-playing cronies
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| Teapot Dome Scandal | Bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1920 to 1923, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding
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| Albert B. Fall | United States Senator from New Mexico and the Secretary of the Interior under President Warren G. Harding, infamous for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal
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| Calvin Coolidge | Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state
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| Urban Sprawl | Multifaceted concept centered on the expansion of auto-oriented, low-density development
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| Installment Plan | Credit system by which payment for merchandise is made in installments over a fixed period of time
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| Prohibition | Legal act of prohibiting the manufacture, storage, transportation and sale of alcohol and alcoholic beverageslegal act of prohibiting the manufacture, storage, transportation and sale of alcohol and alcoholic beverages
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| Speakeasy | Establishment that illegally sells alcoholic beverages
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| Bootlegger | Illegal traffic in liquor in violation of legislative restrictions on its manufacture, sale, or transportation
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| Fundamentalism | Demand for a strict adherence to orthodox theological doctrines usually understood as a reaction against Modernist theology
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| Clarence Darrow | American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
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| Scopes Trial | Famous American legal case in 1925 in which a high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school
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| Flapper | New breed of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior
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| Double Standard | A double standard is the application of different sets of principles for similar situations, or by two different people in the same situation
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| Charles A. Lindbergh | American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist
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| George Gershwin | American composer and pianist
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| George O'Keeffe | American artist
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| Sinclair Lewis | American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright
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| F. Scott Fitzgerald | American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined
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| Edna St. Vincent Millay | American lyrical poet and playwright
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| Ernest Hemingway | American author and journalist
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