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Chapter 23 Terms
AP US History terms for chapter 23 of The American Promise
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10th Grade
02/22/2011

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Henry Ford
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assembly-line production, inventor of the car, sold hundreds of thousands of Model T's in the early 1900s
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Marcus Harvey
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Jamaican-born visionary who preached black pride and rediscovery of heritage while keeping the race pure by avoiding miscegenation
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Langston Hughes
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black writer, part of the Harlem Renaissance
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Zora Neale Hurston
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black writer, part of the Harlem Renaissance
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Charles Lindbergh
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first (and young) pilot to fly nonstop across the Atlantic, subject of hero worship
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Ernest Hemingway
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"Lost Generation" of American writers who went overseas to do their work
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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spoke sadly about "disillusioned generation" in his popular book "This Side of Paradise"
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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two anarchist Italian immigrants executed amid hysteria in another unfair trial for suspected robbery and murder
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Scopes Trial
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over whether Charles Darwin's theory of evolution or that found in the Bible should be taught in public schools, widely broadcasted
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Herbert Hoover
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Republican who won election of 1928 for President, combination of moral, efficient, serving, and prosperous images helped him win by a landslide
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Scottsboro boys
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9 young black men put on trial for the rape of 4 white women, extremely unfair trial and were put in jail for life though the governor saw the unfairness and stopped the use of the death penalty on them
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Model T
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famous, cheaply made, cheap car of mass production sold by Henry Ford
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Teapot Dome
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synonym for political corruption because it was the site of an oil spill that was leased to certain people because of very large bribes
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welfare capitalism
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purposely encouraged loyalty to the company and discouraged outside unions by hacing the businesses provide safety and sanitation inside the factories and paid vacations and pension plans
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installment buying
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down-payment with regular installments for the purchase of larger items (such as cars), still in use today
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prohibition
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alcohol is illegal, 18th Amendment
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New Woman
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young, college-educated women who broke stereotypes surrounding dress, work, drink, and sex
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Equal Rights Amendment
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fought for by the radical National Woman's Party, stated that men and women ought to have completely equal rights, failed
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flapper
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bobbed hair, lipstick and rouge, short skirts, drop wasits, no petticoats, and bare arms, danced all night to wild jazz
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New Negro
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challenged caste system of racial superiority (i.e. whites)
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Harlem Renaissance
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rise of black artistry as combination between African and American, creation of their own culture, New York
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Lost Generation
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American (white) writers and artists who felt jipped the US and thus went overseas to pursue their arts
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Crash of 1929
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situations both on Wall Street and in international economy caused for the Great Depression with the major crash aforementioned
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff
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raised taxes on outside goods a lot
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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federal agency empowered to lend government funding to failing banks and corporations
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