Roaring 20s
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- Ku Klu Klan (KKK)
- Organization formed in the south in 1866, which used lynching violence to intimiadate and control African Americans and others
- censorship
- not allowing certain materials to reach the public. "Censoring" them from the people
- Sacco & Vanzetti
- Two italian immigrant shoe makers who were connections to crimes and were carrying gun at the time of their arrest, and they were convicted and sentenced to death.
- Henry Ford
- created a more easily made and cheaper car. It was more accesable to more people. He contributed to the fast pace change during that time period
- Nativsm
- Practice of favoring native-born citizens over Immigrants.
- Charles A. Lindberg
- Aviator who became an international hero when he made the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean
- "Red Scare"
- Fear of communism, socialism, or other so-called extreme ideas.
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Prohibition
18th Amendement - No Alcohol
- General Strike
- A strike in which many unions participate in order to show worker unity.
- Evolution
- Changing and evolving of people and things over time.
- Calvin Coolidge
- 30th president of the US 1923-29; promoted big buisness and opposed social aid
- Anti-Semitic
- Hostility toward or discrimination of Jews
- Flapper
- A typoe of young woman having a straight, slim silhouette and a fondness for dancing and brash actions; a symbol of the jazz age
- assembly line
- a line in a factory etc. that uses interchangable parts
- Warren G. Harding
- 29th President of the U.S.,1921-1923; presided over a short administration marked by corruption.
- Scopes Trial
- Tennesee trial of 1925 that challenged the law against teaching evolution in public schools
- Harlem Renaissance
- Period in the early 1900's during which the literary, musical, and artistic expression of African Americans blosomed in Harlem.
- fundamentalism
- christian religios movement based on pamphlets issued between 1909-1914; hold thats every word described in the Bible is inspired by God
- Marcus Garvey
- African American leader from 1919 to 1926 who urged A.A.'s to return to "motherland" of Africa;provided early inspiration for "black pride" movements.
- Jazz Age
- Term for the 1920s, a preiod makred by the great populartity of Jazz music, which was linked to changes in manners, morals, and fashions.