1920s
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| Palmer Raids | Government launched raids to round up and deport communists = part of the Red Scare (the fear of communism)
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| Scopes Trial | trial of a teacher for teaching EVOLUTION; the trial highlighted regional differences with the South being more fundamentalists; the prosecution was against the SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE and FREEDOM OF SPEECH
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| KKK - Ku Klux Klan | revived because of NATIVISM (prejudice against immigrants)= native to America
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| 18th Amendment | prohibition of alcohol; repealed by the 21st Amendment
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| 18th Amendment | called "The Noble Experiment" because it would end spousal abuse, alcoholism, and poverty; gangsters and organized crime profited from bootlegging (making and selling alcohol illegally)
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| The New Woman | benefited from Electrica Appliances
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| Harlem Renaissance | the intellectual movement of African-American literature, art, and music
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| Zola Neale Hurston | wrote about African-American folk lore
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| flappers | young rebellious women who wore shorter dresses and smoked and drank
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| Lindberg | flew the "Spirit of St. Louis" across the Atlantic
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| jazz | Louis Armstrong
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| jazz | popular type of music during the 1920s
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| Teapot Dome Scandal | scandal of the Harding Administration involving the leasing of naval oil reserves for bribes (bad publicity for the president)
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| President Warren G Harding | 29th president from 1921-23 (his death of heart attack)
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| The Lost Generation | writers who attacked the greed, corruption and immorality in America society = Hemingway and Fitzerald (The Great Gatsby)
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| radio | standardized culture by providing nationwide entertainment - this boosted interest in politics
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| movies | encouraged a national lifestyle and fashions
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| Pres. Harding | promised a "return to normalcy
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| Zola Neale Hurston | wrote "Their Eyes were Watching God" =
passed on black folk tales
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