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Chapter 12-13

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nativism   show
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show opposition to political and economic entanglements with other countries  
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show an economic and political system based on one-part government and state ownership of property  
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anarchists   show
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show arrested and charged with the robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his gaurds  
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quota system   show
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John L. Lewis   show
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show good-natured man who looked like a president ought to look like  
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show urged that no more war ships be built for 10 years  
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show a set of regulations, enacted by Congress in 1922, that raised taxes on imports to record levels in order to protect American businesses against foreign competition  
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Ohio gang   show
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show 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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show secretary of the Interior, a close friend of various oil executives, managed to get the oil reserves transferred from the navy to the Interior Department  
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show the new president, fit into the pro-business spirit of the 1920s very well.  
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urban sprawl   show
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installment plan   show
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show the period from 1920-1933 during which the Eighteenth Amendment forbidding the manufacture and sale of alcohol was force in the US  
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speakeasy   show
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bootlegger   show
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fundamentalism   show
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Clarence Darrow   show
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Scopes trial   show
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show one of the free-thinking young women who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the 1920s  
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show a set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women  
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Charles A. Lindbergh   show
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George Gershwin   show
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show produced intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of new york  
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Sinclair Lewis   show
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show coined the term "jazz Age" to describe the 1920s  
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show wrote poems celebrating the youth and a life of independence and freedom from traditional constraints  
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show became best known expatriate author  
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Zora Neale Hurston   show
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show poet, lawyer, and NAACP executive secretary  
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show immigrant from Jamaica, believed that African Americans should build a separate society  
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show a favoring of African-American artistic creativity during the 1920s, centered in the Harlem community of NYC  
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show novelist, poet, and Jamaican immigrant, was a major figure whose militant verses urged African Americans to resist prejudice and discrimination  
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show was the movement's best-known poet  
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show the son of a one-time slave, became a major dramatic actor  
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show joined Oliver's group, which became known as the Creole Jazz Band.  
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show a jazz pianist and composer, led his ten-piece orchestra at the cotton club  
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show a female blues singer, was perhaps the most outstanding vocalist of the decade  
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