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The Roaring 20s!!!!!
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11/13/2010

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Flapper
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the modern, free, scandalous, enetgetic rebelious women of the 20's, jazz babbies
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Volstead Act
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act that was supposed to enforce the 18th amendmant but was widely ignored
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Al Capone
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the most notorious ganster of Chicago, always able to slip past the law, made millions off bootlegging and other illegal practices
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Scopes Trial
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a teacher named John Scopes taught evolution in school, when that was an illegal process the trial was a huge debate of fundamentalism vs. evolution
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Billy Sunday
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famous former baseball player who preached fundamentalist beleifs and anti-alcholism
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Red Summer
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the summer of 1919, which was named for all the blood spilled over tension between blacks and whites
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Klu Klux Klan
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group who acted out in violance and assualt against anyone who was not the perfect American,

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Anglo-

Saxan

Protestant

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Marcus Garvey
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African American who beleived all blacks should return back to their motherland of Africa and tried to build up AA self-respect and power
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William J. Harding
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president believed America should try to return to normalacy after WWI
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Normalcy
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typical, American life, Harding beleived America needed to return to this after WWI
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Red Scare
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American fear of communism and any other radical politcal beleifs
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Palmer Raids
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Justice Department set up a specail force to conduct raids and arrest "subversives," people trying to overthrow the gov
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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Italian anarchists arrested and convicted of robbing and killing the guard and paymaster of a shoe factory, one of the greatest controversies of all time
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Calvin Coolidge
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Massachusetts governor who sent out the state guard to control a strike of poice officers in Boston, gained attention for his firm response to the strike
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Dawes Plan
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plan that set a payment schedule to the German national bank and approved a loan to Germany
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National Orgins Act
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act that reduced the annual quota to 2 percent, based on the census of 1890, limited immigration to America from Italy, Poland, Russia etc.
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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15 nations plegded not to use the threat of war in dealing with one another, more than 60 other nations eventually, joined but the pact was to unreasonable to actually work
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Herbert Hoover
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the president who won the 1928 election
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