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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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show a person who opposes all forms of government  
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Sacco and Vanzetti   show
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quota system   show
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show leader of the United Mine Workers of America  
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Warren G. Harding   show
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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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Teapot Dome scandal   show
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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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show an arrangement in which a purchaser pays over an extended time, without having to put down much money at the time of purchase  
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prohibition   show
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speakeasy   show
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show a person who smuggled alcoholic beverages into the United States during Prohibition  
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show a Protestant religious movement grounded in the belief that all the stories and details in the Bible are literally true  
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show most famous trial lawyer of the day, to defend Scopes  
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show a sensational 1925 court case in which the biology teacher John T. Scopes was tried for challenging a Tennessee law that outlawed the teaching of evolution.  
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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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double standard   show
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Charles A. Lindbergh   show
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George Gershwin   show
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Georgia O'Keeffe   show
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show the first american to win a Nobel Prize in literature, was among the Ara's most outrageous critics  
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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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Emest Hemingway   show
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Zora Neale Hurston   show
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James Weldon Johnson   show
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Marcus Garvey   show
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Harlem Renaissance   show
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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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Louis Armstrong   show
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Duke Ellington   show
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show a female blues singer, was perhaps the most outstanding vocalist of the decade  
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