1920s
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- urban sprawl
- unplanned and uncontrolled spreading of cities into surrounding regions
- double standard
- set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women
- kellogg briand pact
- renounced war as an instrument of national policy
- fundamentalism
- protestant movement grounded in a literal, or nonsmybolic, interpretation of the bible,
- anarchists
- people who opposed any and all forms of govt.
- flapper
- emancipated young woman who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day
- quota system
- established max. number of people who could enter the US from each foreign country
- bootleggers
- person who smuggled alcoholic beverages into the US during prohibition
- speakeasies
- place where alcholic drinks were sold and consumed illegally during prohibition
- scopes trial
- fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in american society
- fordney mccumber tariff
- raised the tax on imports to its heights level- 60%
- teapot dome scandal
- secretary of interior Albert B falls secret leasing of oil reach public land to private companies in return for money and land
- ohio gang
- the presidents rowdy, poker playing cronies from back home