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- Henry Ford
- Made the first auomobile called the Ford Model T.
- General Strike
- "A strike in which many unions participate in order to show worker unity" (pg.1030 Prentice Hall)
- Flapper
- A new fashion for women. Now women were showing more flesh in public by wearing shorter skirts than they did before.
- Red Scare
- "Fear of communism, solcialism, or otherso-called extreme ideas." (pg.1034)
- Evolution
- The theory that humans were devloped from apes.
- Harlem Rennaissance
- "Period in the early 1900's during which the literary, musical, and artistic expression of African Americans blossomed in Harlem." (pg.1030 Prentice Hall)
- Warren G. Harding
- The Ohio senator.He want the U.S. to become normal again after the war.
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- Were accused anarchists and were sentenced to death.
- Jazz age
- "The term for the 1920's, a period marked by the great popularity of jazz music, which was linked to changes in manner, moral, and fashions." (pg.1030 Prentice Hall)
- assembly line
- A line of workers that would work on a finshed product.
- anti-semitic
- "Hostily toward or dicrimination against Jewish people." (pg.1027
- nativism
- "Practice of favoring native born citizens over immagrants." (pg.1032 Prentice Hall) Native born Americans.
- censorship
- When the press got censored from some material.
- Marcus Garvey
- When he was jailed he gave some money to a streamline that went to Africa.
- Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
- A racist group that did hate crime towards minorities.
- Calvin Coolidge
- Wanted the U.S. to become normal after the war.
- Charles A. Lindenburg
- "He was a stunt flyer and air mail pilot. He tied to cross the Atlantic but his blimp caught on fire." (pg.597 Prentice Hall)
- Fundementalism
- "Chrisitian religous movement based on pamphlets issued between 1909 and 1914; holds that every word in the bible was inspired by God." (pg.1030)
- Scopes Trial
- "Tennessee trial of 1925 that challenged the laws against teaching evolution in public schools." (pg.1034