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American Pageant
The Roaring 20s Through Hoover
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12/18/2011

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Washington Conference
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A meeting of major powers that took place between 1921 and 1922 which resulted in an agreement to set limits on the size of each nation's navy
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Langston Hughes
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This Harlem Renaissance poet and short story writer expressed the despair of blacks and demanded social justice.
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Dawes Plan
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This 1924 law attempted to facilitate German reparations payments. By loaning $200 million in gold bullion to Germany, the U. S. and its Allies hoped to stabilize the Germany economy
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Scopes Trial
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This 1925 case involved a Tennessee law against the teach of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in public schools
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Teapot Dome
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This political scandal involved a cabinet member in President Harding's administration
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Bear Market
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A steady downward trend in the prices of corporate stocks
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Volsted Act
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This implemented prohibition and defined an illegal beverage as any one over 1% alcohol by volume
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Flappers
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Young women of the 1920s who adopted an original style of dress and challenged traditional societal values
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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This 1928 treaty, signed by 63 nations (including the U. S.), was an agreement never to use war as a means of international conflict resolution
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Hoovervilles
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These slums were inhabited by homeless families during the Depression
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Bull Market
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A steady upward trend in the prices of corporate stocks
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Lost Generation
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The name given to a group of American writers who gathered in Paris after World War I and who wrote about rebellious people, criticized society, and attacked materialism
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The Jazz Singer
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This 1927 movie was was the first "talkie" motion picture, ending the era of silent films
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Isolationism and Protectionism
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The Republicans returned to power with the election of Warren G. Harding in 1920. The new president's call for a "return to normalcy" turned out to mean?
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The Coolidge Administration
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worked to help wealthy Americans through tax cuts and other pro-business activities
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The Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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offered emergency loans to banks, farm mortgage associations, building and loan societies, and other such businesses to prevent bankruptcies
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