1920's
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- Red Scare
- Fear of communism, socialism, or other so-called extreme ideas
- Jazz age
- Term for the 1920s, a period marked by the great popularity of jazz music, which was linked to changes in manners, moral, and fashions
- Nativism
- Practice of favoring native-born citizens over immigrants
- Charles A. Lindbergh
- Aviotor who became an international hero when he made the first solo flight across the altantic ocean in 1927
- Sacco and Wanzetti
- Two italian immigrant shoe makers who were in connections with crimes and were both carrying guns at the time of thier arrest, and they were convicted and sentenced to death
- Assembly line
- Process in wich products were made by interchangeable parts on an assembly line
- Harlem renaissance
- Period in the early 1900s during which the literary, musical, and artistic expression of African Americans blossomed in Harlem
- Anti-semitic
- Hostility toward or discrimination against jews
- General Strike
- A strike in which many unions participate in order to show worker unity
- Marcus Garvey
- Motable African American named MArcus Garvey
- Fundamentalism
-
Christian religious movement based on pamphlets issued betweeen 1909 and 1914; holds that every word in the bible ws inspired by god
- Flapper
- A type of young woman having a strait, slim silhoutte and a fondness for dancing and brash actionsl a symbol of the Jazz age
- Scopes trial
- Tennessee trial of 1925 that challenged the lawa against teaching evolution in public schools
- Warren G. Harding
- Twenty-ninth president of the united states, 1921-1923; presided over a short administration marked by corruption
- KKK
- Organiscation formed in the south in 1866, which unsed lynching and violence to tintimidate and control African americans and others
- Calvin Coolidge
- Thirteench president of the united states 1923-1929; promoted big business and opposed social aid
- Henry Ford
- created a more econimical way to make cars to make them cheaper and easier to produce so it would be more widely available to the general public
- Uniformity of product
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When all products were the sdame
- Censorship
- The process of blocking out unwanted material from the general public
- 18th Amendment
- The 18th Amendment made alchohol illegal in the united states it was mainly pushed by women