The Jazz Age
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| 1. supply-side economics | economic theory that lower taxes will boost the economy as businesses and individuals invest their money, thereby creating higher tax revenue
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| 2. cooperative individualism | president Hoover's policy of encouraging manufactures and distributors to form their own organizations and volunteer information to the federal government in an effort to stimulate the economy
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| 3. isolationism | a national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs
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| 4. investigation | a systematic examination or official inquiry
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| 5. revelation | an act of revealing to view or making known
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| 6. Teapot Dome |
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| 7. Charles G. Dawes |
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| 8. Charles Evans Hughes |
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| 9. Kellogg-Briand Pact |
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| 10. mass production | the production of large quantities of goods using machinery and often an assembly line
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| 11. assembly line | a production system with machines and workers arranged so that each person performs an assigned task again and again as the item passes before him or her
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| 12. Model T | automobile built by the ford motor company from 1908 until 1927
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| 13. welfare capitalism | system in which companies enable employees to buy stock, participate in profit sharing, and receive benefits such as medical care common in the 1920s
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| 14. open shop | a workplace where workers are not required to join a union
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| 15. disposable | referring to the money remaining to an individual after deduction of taxes
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| 16. credit | an amount or sum of money placed at a persons disposal by a bank on condition that it will be repaid with interest
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| 17. Charles Lindbergh |
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| 18. nativism | hostility toward immigrants
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| 19. anarchist | person who believes that there should be no government
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| 20. evolution | the scientific theory that humans and other forms of life have evolved over time
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| 21. creationism | the belief that god created the world and everything in it, usually in the way described in genesis
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| 22. speakeasy | a place where alcoholic beverages are sold illegally
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| 23. source | the point at which something is provided
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| 24. deny | to declare untrue
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| 25. Emergency Quota Act |
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| 26. National Origins Act |
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| 27. Fundamentalism |
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| 28. bohemian | a person (as an artist or writer) leading an unconventional lifestyle
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| 29. mass media | a medium of communication (as in television and radio) intended to reach a wide audience
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| 30. diverse | being different from one another
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| 31. unify | to bring a group together with a similar goal or thought pattern
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| 32. Carl Sandburgh |
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| 33. Willa Cather |
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| 34. Ernest Hemingway |
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| 35. F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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| 36. Edith Wharton |
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| 37. Jazz | American style of music that developed from ragtime and blues and which uses syncopated rhythms and melodies
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| 38. blues | style of music evolving from African American spirituals and noted for its melancholy sound
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| 39. symbolize | to represent , express, or identify by a symbol
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| 40. impact | to make a lasting impression upon an individual or group
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| 41. ongoing | being actually in process, continuing
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| 42. Great Migration |
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| 43. Harlem Renaissance |
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| 44. Claude Mckay |
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| 45. Langston Hughes |
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| 46. Zora Neale Hurston |
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| 47. Cotton Club |
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| 48. Marcus Garvey |
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