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Chapter 24
The New Era
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10/17/2011

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Scopes Trial
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Test of the Tennessee law which forbade the teaching of evolution in public schools.
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Nicola Sacco
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Italian anarchist whose execution in 1927 for a Massachusetts murder became an international scandal.
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Charles Lindbergh
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Piloted the "Spirit of St. Louis" on the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Author of "This Side of Paradise" and spokesman for the Lost Generation.
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Charlie Chaplin
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One of the most popular silent film stars of the 1920s.
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Clarence Darrow
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Principal defense attorney during John Scopes 1925 trial
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Al Smith
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1928 Democratic presidential candidate who was the first Roman Catholic candidate of a major party.
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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1928 agreement in which 62 nations renounced the use of war.
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Al Jolsen
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Star of "The Jazz Singer," the first talkie.
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Marcus Garvey
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Founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
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Aimee Semple McPherson
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Minister of LA’s Angelus Temple who was billed as “the world’s most pulchritudinous evangelist.”
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Return to Normalcy
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Hardings 1920 campaign slogan, reflecting the desire of many Americans to return to the "simplicity" of the pre-war world.
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Herbert Hoover
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Secretary of Commerce during the Harding and Coolidge administrations who promoted a progressive brand of capitalism known as “associationalism.”
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Sinclair Lewis
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Author of "Main Street" and "Babbitt," he was the first American to win a Nobel Prize in Literature.
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National Orgins Act of 1921
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Capped all immigration into the United States at 350,000 per year, with numbers of each ethnic group determined by a percentage of their numbers in the 1910 census.
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Universal Negro Improvement Association
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Organized by Marcus Garvey to restore black pride, this was the first African American mass movement.
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The "Noble Experiment"
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Ratification and implementation of the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, transportation, or importation of alcoholic beverages.
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Albert Fall
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Secretary of the Interior who was the first cabinet member to be convicted of a felony committed while in office.
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Harlem Renaissance
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1920s explosion of African American literary, musical, and artistic accomplishment.
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Expatriate
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One who leaves the country of one’s birth or citizenship to live in another, often out of a sense of alienation.
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Teapot Dome
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The most spectacular scandal of the Harding Administration.
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Al Smith
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Reform governor of New York and the first Catholic candidate for the presidency.
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D.W. Griffith
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Movie producer who glorified the KKK in his 1915 film Birth of a Nation.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Attacked the American obsession with material success in his 1925 novel "The Great Gatsby."
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Bruce Barton
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Advertiser who described Jesus Christ as a “super salesman” in his best-selling book, "The Man Nobody Knows."
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Nisei
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American-born children of Japanese immigrants.
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Henry Ford
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Pioneered welfare capitalism in calling for a shortened workweek and higher wages.
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Langston Hughes
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Captured the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance in his sentence “I am a Negro – and beautiful.”
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John Scopes
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Tennessee biology teacher who was convicted in 1925 of teaching evolution.
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H.L. Mencken
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Infamous Baltimore journalist who delighted in ridiculing religion, politics, the arts and even democracy.
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