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11th Grade
10/21/2011

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nativism
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PRejudice against foreign born people
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isolationism
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policy of pulling away from world affairs
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communism
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economic and political system based on a single party government ruled by dictatorship
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anarchist
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people who opposed any kind of government
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sacco and vazetti
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were arrestedand charged with robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guard in South Braintree, Massachusetts
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quota system
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this system established the maximum number of people who could enter the united states from each foreign country
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john lewis
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In protest of low wages and long workdays, Lewis called his unions members out on strike on November 1, 1919
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warren harding
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president of 1921
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charles hughes
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urged that no more warships be built for 10 years
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fordney mccumber tariff
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raised taces on some U.S. imports to 60 percent
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ohio gang
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presidents poker playing cronies
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teapot dome scandal
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the government had set aside oul rich public lands at teapot dome, wroming and in elk hills california for us by the U.S. Navy.
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albert fall
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got the oil reserves transgered from the navy to the interior department
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Calvin coolidge
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"The chief business of the american people is business...the man who builds a factory builds a temple-the man who works there worships there"
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urban sprawl
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cities people spreading in all directions due to the automobile.
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installment plan
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enables people to purchase goods over the extended period
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prohibition
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manufacture, sale,and transportation of alcoholic beverages were legally prohibited.
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speakeasy
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people that spoke quitely or easiy to avoid detection in bars.
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bootlegger
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someone who smuggled alcohol from state to state
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fundamentalism
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interpretation o fht ebible
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clarence darrow
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the most famous trial lawyer of the day, wwas there to defent john T scopes.
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scopes trial
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was a fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public school and in american society
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flapper
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an emancipated young woman who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day
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charles lindbergh
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nonstop solo flight across the atlantic
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george gerwish
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created american Jazz
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georgia o keefe
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produced a intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of new york
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senclair lewis
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the first american to win a nobel prize in literature, was among the era most outspken critics
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f.scott fotzgerald
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Edna St.Vincent Millay
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Ernest hemingway
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Marcus Garvey
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Harlem Renaissance
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Longston Hughes
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Louis Armstrong
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Duke ellington
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price support
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credit
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what people used to get stuff aht they couldnt afford and pay for it later :)
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Alfred smith
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dow jonest industrial average
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speculation
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buying on margin
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people would take money that they didnt have to buy stocks, in hopes to make there money back and more
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Black Tuesday
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when the stock market crashed :(
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Hawley-smoot Tariff
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Dust Bowl
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an dry desolite area where over farming occured and killed all the grass to cause just dry dirt.
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Herbert Hoover
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Boulder Dam
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Federal Home Loan Bank Act
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RFC
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Bonus Army
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FDR
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a president that created the new deal.
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new deed
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Glass Steagall act
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Federal Securities
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Agricultural adjustment act
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Civilian Conservation Corps.
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Nation Industrial Recovery act
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Deficit spending
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Huey Long
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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works progress administration
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Wagner Act
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social security act
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francis perkins
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CIO
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Gone with the wind
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Grapes of wrath
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FDIC
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SEC
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NLRB
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TVA
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