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The 20's and 30's
Mrs.Hills
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History
9th Grade
11/29/2011

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Warren G. Harding
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First Republican Senator of Ohio.  Then he would run for president and his running mate would be the govenor of massachusets, Calvin Coolidge.  He would die while he was president and vice president Calvin Coolidge would take over after his death.
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Calvin Coolidge
Definition
First he was the Govenor of Massachusets. Harding picked him as his running mate.  They would won the election and he would become the first vice president to take charge after the president died.
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Calvin Coolidge

 

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First he was the Govenor of Massachusets.  Vice President who took charge after President Harding died.   He fired all political officials who were involved in the Teapot Dome scandal.
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Teapot Dome Scandal
Definition
It involved Secratry of the Interior, Albert Fall, who accepted large sums of money and valuable gifts form a private oil company.  In exchange Fall allowed the companies to control government oil reserves in Elk Hills, California, and the Teapot Dome in Wyoming.
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The Charleston
Definition
A popular jazz club in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Sigmund Freud
Definition
A Austrian nerologist who develpoted psychoanalyis, a way to examin human behavior.
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Gertrude Ederle
Definition
She was the first woman to swim across th English Channel.
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Talkie
Definition
Was the first type of motion picture with sound.
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Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
Definition
It granted citizenship to all native americans who were living in the United States.
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League of United Latin American Citizens
Definition
This "League" brought an end to unfair treatment in schools and voting restrictions for Mexican Americans.
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Marcus Garvey 
Definition
He encouraged blacks around the world to express their culture.(He was born in Jamaca)
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The National Association for the Advancement of


Colored People Newspapers

Definition
These articles presented harsch facts about the large number of lynchings in the South.
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The Great Migration
Definition
Durring WW1 African-Americans began leaving the South and started taking jobs in factories up in the North.
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Fundamentalism
Definition
This belief system interpreted the Bible word-for-word.  It also led to a Protestant religous movement.
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21st Amendment
Definition
In 1933 this amendment ended the Prohabition of of production, posetion, and sale of alcohal in the United States.
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18th Amendment
Definition
This amendment outlawed the production, sale, and transportation of alcohal in the United States.
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National Origins Act of 1924
Definition
This Act banded immagration from East Asia entirely.
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The Emergency Quota Act of 1921
Definition
This act limited the total number of immagrants allowed into the country.
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American Civil Libertys Union
Definition
This union, founded in 1920, defended ever persons rights in the United States.
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Sacco and Vanzetti
Definition
These 2 men, anarchists, were convicted of robbing and murdering a factery paymaster and his gaurd.
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George A. Palmer
Definition
This officer organized police raids to brea up Communists and other groups.
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The Red Scare
Definition
The period in which the United States feared Communism was nicknamed the "     ".
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Flappers
Definition
Women who have shorter hair, alot of makeup on, and shorter dresses are called "   ".
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Female Govenors 
Definition

Nellie Taylor Ross was the govenor of Wyoming 

 

Mirian "Ma" Ferguson was the govenor of Texas

 

Both were govenors in 1925

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Women in the workforce
Definition

Women with collage degrees worked as

 

nurses

teachers

librians

ans social workers

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Access to Education 
Definition
During the 20s and 30s this was an important part of this new independce.  Which doubled high school attendence.
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Alfred E. Smith

 

Definition
He ran aganist Herbert Hoover in the presidential election of 1928.  Though he would not become the president in 1928 he was the forst catholic to run for president.
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Herbert Hoover
Definition
He won the Presidential election of 1928 
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
Definition
In 1928 the United States and 14 other nations signed an agreement to outlaw war this would later be called the "   ".
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Andrew Mellon 

The Trickel Down Theory

Definition
This theory gave an inncentive to the wealthy and buissnesses who help the pour and the needy in the United States.
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Bessie Smith
Definition
He was a leading Blues singer
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Normalcy
Definition
The promise to return the country to stability and prosperty was called "   ".
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Langston Hughes 
Definition
This Africian-American writer wrote poems, plays, and novels about african-american life.
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Harlem Renaissance
Definition
This was the period of african-american artistic accomplishments.
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The Lost Generation
Definition
The period in which writers critized the American society in the 1920's .
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Blues
Definition
This genre of music originated from the rural south of the Mississippi Delta.
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Edward "Duke" Ellington
Definition
This African-American was a famous jazz musicion.
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Louis Armstrong
Definition

This African-American was a famous jazz musicion.

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The Jazz Age
Definition
This time period in which an explosion in the popularity of jazz swept through the nation.
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Amelia Earhart
Definition
This woman was the first to fly solo across the Atalantic Ocean.
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Charles Lindburgh
Definition
This man was the first to fly non-stop across the Atalantic Ocean.
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Negro Leages
Definition
These leagues were compared to the major league baseball league for whites.
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Babe Ruth
Definition
This man shattered home-run records.
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Radio Broadcasting

(KDKA)

Definition
This allowed people all over the country to listen to the same programs at the same time.
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The Klu Klux Klan
Definition
This group of radicals harrased African-Americans.
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Scopes Trials
Definition
John T. Scopes, a Tennesse biology teacher, was put on trial for teaching evolution to his class.
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Gangsters

(Al-Capone)

Definition
This group of people gained control of the alcohal trade(During the Prohabition) by murdering their rivals.
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Bootleggers
Definition
The group of people of organized criminals quickly siezed control of the illegal alcohal production.
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Speakeasies
Definition
During the Prohabition these illegal bars were called "  ".
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Prohabition
Definition
The time period in the United States when the production, possetion, sale, and transportation of alcohal were illegal.
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Labor Saving Products
Definition
These products reduced the need for workersand they even saved time.
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Henery Ford
Definition
This man achived his goal by building a sturdy reliable car (The Model T) and he also invented the moving assembly line.
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