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Chapter 12 & 13 voca

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Nativism   Prejudice against foreign-born people, swept the nation.  
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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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Anarchists   People who opposed any form of government  
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Sacco and Vanzetti   Were arrested and charged with the robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guard in South Braintree, Massachusetts.  
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quota system   System established the maximum number of people who would enter the United States from each foreign country.  
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John L. Lewis   New leader of the United Mine Workers of America.  
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Warren G. Harding   Was 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 build for 10 years.  
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Fordney- McCumber Tariff   Raised taxes on U.S. imports to 60% - the highest level ever.  
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Ohio Gang   The president's poker playing cronies, who would soon cause a great deal of embarrassment.  
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teapot dome scandal   The mots spectacular example of corruption.  
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Albert B. Fall   A close friend of various oil executives, managed to get the oil reserves transferred from mthe naby to the Interior Department.  
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Calvin Coolidge   The new president, fit into the pro-business spirit of the 1920's very well.  
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Urban Sprawl   Allowed workers to live miles from their jobs.  
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Installment plan   Enables people to my goods over an extended period, without having to put down much money at the time of purchase.  
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Prohibition   time in which the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages were legally prohibited.  
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Speakeasy   To obtain liquor illegally, drinkers went underground to hidden saloons and nightclubs.  
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Bootlegger   People who smuggled it in from the Canada, Cuba and West Indies.  
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Fundamentalism   Skeptical of some scientific discoveries and theories; they argued that all important knowledge could be found in the Bible.  
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Clarence Darrow   The most famous trial lawyer of the day, to defend Scopes.  
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Scopes trial   A fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in American society.  
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Flapper   an emancipated young women 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 to women - required women to observe stricter standards of behavior than men did.  
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Charles A. Lindbergh   Made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic.  
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George Gershwin   Merged traditional elements with American jazz, thus creating a new sound that was identifiably 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 Price in literature, was among the era's most outspoken critics.  
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F. Scott Fitzgerald   Who 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 Hemingway   Wounded in World War I, became the best-known expatriate author.  
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Zora Neale Hurston   A writer.  
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James Weldon Johnson   Poet, Lawyer and NAACP executive secretary - the organization fought for legislation to protect African-American rights.  
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Marcus Garvey   An immigrant from Jamaica, believed that 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, was a major figure whose militant verses urges African Americans to resist prejudice and discrimination.  
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Langston Hughes   was the movements best-known poet.  
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Paul Robeson   the son of a one-time slave, became a major dramatic actor.  
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Louis Armstrong   Joined Oliver's group, which became known as the Creole Jazz Band.  
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Duke Ellington   a jazz pianist and composer, led his ten-place orchestra at the Cotton Club.  
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Bessie Smith   a female blues singer, was perhaps the outstanding vocalist of the decade.  
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