Chapter 21 (1920s)
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- Charles A. Lindbergh
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-"The decades ultimate hero"
-stunt flyer and airmail pilot
-flew Spirit of St. Louis
-1st aviator to fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean
- Nativism
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-movement to limit immigration
-first appeared in 1800s
-revived after the war - Flapper
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-a youthful women
-dancing women with her boots open - Calvin Coolidge
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-Hardings running mate in 1920 election
-remembered for being involved in famous Boston Police Strike - Assembly Line
- -an organized production line
- Harlem Renaissance
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-literary life flourished
-happened in Harlem, New York
-African American writers started to thrive and be appriciated
-"mutual enrichment" - fundamentalism
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-religious movement
-belief that every biblical story was literally true
-appeared between 1909 and 1914 - Marcus Garvey
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-notable African American
-native Jamaican
-estab. a headquarters for his organization [Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)]
-his org. sought to improve African American self-respect
-jailed on fraud charges for overselling stock in a steamship line enterprise - censorship
- -Prevention of disturbing or painful thoughts or feelings from reaching consciousness except in a disguised form (definition from American Heritage Online)
- Sacco and Vanzetti
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-two Italian immigrants
-connected with a murder unjustly
-accused of carrying guns-the same ones used in a murder
-convicted and sentenced to die - Scopes Trial
- -trial of John T. Scopes that accused him of teaching evolution when the Bible was only dictated to be taught
- Jazz Age
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-age in the 1920s in which Jazz was a popular genre of the music industry
-the beginning of many different varieties of music
-African Americcans thrived and were appriciated - Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
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-white supremacist organization
-WASPs
-frequently lynched people who weren't White Anglo Saxon Protestants - general strike
- an action in which many unions participate in a strike as a show of woker unity
- uniformity of product
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-interchangeable parts
-same product - Warren G. Harding
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-Ohio Senator
-republican conservative
-overwhelmed the Democratic ticket with ideas
-won the 1920 election - Anti-Semetic
- -a person who bears hostility and descriminates against Jewish people
- red scare
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-fear of communism, socialism, or other so-called extreme ideas
-it gripped the nation