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US History Chapter 25-26 Test Review
for the class of 2015 @ BCS
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11th Grade
02/24/2014

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Warren Harding
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"return to normalcy"; won 1920 election
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Al Capone
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most notorious gangster of the 1920s
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Calvin Coolidge
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VP to Harding; succeeded after his death; frugal with money; ran gov't efficiently
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Henry Ford
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the assembly line mass production of the Model T. Took 93 mins instead of 14 hours.
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NAACP
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People demanded equal rights and fought against racial discrimination.
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"Red Scare"
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when federal officers raided Comm. headquarters in 33 cities & deported about 500 people
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Dawes Plan
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lowered Germanys payment to help them thru the bad economic times and Germany was given a huge loan to promote it's economic and industrial growth
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Paris Peace Act
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attempt at achieving peace; US and France sign a pact that would outlaw war between the two countries
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KDKA
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first commercial radio station
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Socialism
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government control of all-economic, political, and social life.
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Pragmatism
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"the philosophy that an idea or an action should be judged solely by its results, regardless of any moral or Scriptural considerations."
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