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Chapter 23
Affluence and Anxiety
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History
12th Grade
11/03/2011

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Bolsheviks
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Russian communists that create a large communist scare in the U.S. after WWI
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Boston Police Strike
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fought over public safety
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A. Mitchell Palmer
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Attorney General that wants to stomp out radicals. He creates a new division of the Justice department.
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J. Edgar Hoover
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Put in charge to rid the "Red Menace" by Palmer.
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Red Menace
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communism
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William J. Simons
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the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan
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The Sacco-Vanzetti Case
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Two anarchists are arrested and sentenced to death for the murder of a shoe factory guard. There was no solid evidence to convict them
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Anarchy
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no government
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Oligopolies
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an industry domination spread among a few firms
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Henry Ford
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first to use the assembly line and reduces the cost of cars
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Model T
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first inexpensive family car
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The Jazz Singer
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first talking movie
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Charles Lindbergh
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first to make a solo flight from New Work to Paris
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The Holland Tunnel
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underground tunnel that connects New York and New Jersey
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Black Starline
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a steamship company
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Marcus Garvey
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promotes Africans reclaiming a homeland from European powers and supported the back to Africa movement.
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Scopes trial
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John Scopes illegally taught evolution in school
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Alain Locke
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The father of the renaissance and writes essays about the importance of blacks
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Jazz
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started with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington
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The Great Gatsby
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wrote by F. Scott Fitzgerald about an extremely wealthy person who is not happy because he became rich illegally
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Sinclair Lewis
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writes Main Street and Babbitt about the troubles of small town America
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Flapper
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woman who wore short skirts, bobbed hair, had a boyish figure, smoked, drank, and had a casual attitude about sex
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John L. Louis
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head of United Mine workers that called for a strike in 1921
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