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History
11th Grade
10/21/2011

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Nativism
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prejudice against foregin born people
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Isolationism
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policy of pullin away from involvment in world affairs.
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Communism
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economic and political system based on a single party government ruled by dictatorship.
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Anarchists
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people who opposed any form of government
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Sacco & Vanzetti
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arrested and charged with robery and muder
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Quota Sydytem
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emergency quota act of 1921
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John Lewis
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called union members on strike on November 1, 1919
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Warren Hanrdening
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good natured man
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Charles Hughes
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urged that no more warships be built for ten years.
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Fordney McCumber Tariff
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raised taxes on some u.s. imports up to 60 percent.
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Ohio gang
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the presidents poker playing cronies.
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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government had set aside oil rich public lands at Teapot Dome Scandal.
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Albert Fall
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close friend of various oil executives, managed to get the oil transferred from the navy to the Interior Department.
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Calvin Coolidge
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fit into the pro-business spirit of the 1920's.
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Urban Sprawl
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Cities spread in all directions.
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Installment Plan
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enabled people to buy goods over an extended period without having to put down much money at the time of purchase.
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Prohibition
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manufacture, sale, and transportation of slcoholic beverages were legally prohibited.
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Speakeasy
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when inside one spoke quitely or " easily " to avoid detection.
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Bootlegger
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named from a smuggler's practice of carrying liquor in the legs of boots.
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Fundamentalism
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protestant movement grounded in a literal or nonsymbolic interpretation of the Bible.
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Clarence Darrow
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most famous trail lawyer to defend Scopes.
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Scopes Trial
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fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in the American Society.
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Flapper
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emancipated young woman who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day.
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Charles Lindbergh
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made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic.
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George Gershwin
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merged traditional elements with American jazz thus creating a new sound that was identifiably American.
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George O' Keefe
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produced intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of New York.
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Sinclair Lewis
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first american to win a nobel prize in literature.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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coined the term Jazz Age to describe the 1920's.
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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wrote poems celebrating youth and a life of independence and freedom from traditional constraints.
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Ernest Hemingway
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best known expatriate author.
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Zora Neale Hurston
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is considered one of the pre-eminent writers of twentieth- century African-American literature.
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Marcus Gavey
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immigrant from Jamaica believed that african americans should build a seperate society.
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Harlem Renaissance
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literary and artistic movement celebration African American culture.
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Langston Hughes
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movements best known poet.
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Louis Armstrong
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young trumpet player became known as the Creole Jazz Band.
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Duke Ellington
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a jazz pianist and composer led his ten piece orchestra at the Cotton Club.
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Price Support
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key products such as wheat, cotton, corn and tobacco.
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Credit
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an arrangment in which consumers agreed to buy now and pay later for purchases.
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Alfred Smith
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an American statesman who was elected the 42nd Governor of New York three times, and was the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in 1928.
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Dow Jones Industrial Average
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most widely used barometer of the stock market's health.
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Speculation
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bought socks and bonds on the chance of a quick profit while ignoring the risks.
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Buying on margin
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paying a small precentage of a stocks price as a down payment and borrowing the rest.
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Black Tuesday
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the bottom fell out of the market and the nation's confidence.
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Hawley Smoot Tariff
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established the highest protective tariff in U.S. history.
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Dust Bowl
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was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936.
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Herbert Hoover
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tried to reassure Americans that the nations economy was on a sound footing.
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Boulder Dam
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lake
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Federal Home Loan Bank Act
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enacted July 22, 1932, is a United States federal law passed under President Herbert Hoover in order to lower the cost of home ownership.
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RFC
Definition
Request for comments.
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Bonus Army
Definition
was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups.
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FDR
Definition
Franklin Delano Roosevelt also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States (1933–1945) and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war.
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New Deal
Definition
series of economic programs implemented in the United States between 1933 and 1936.
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Glass - Stegall Act
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was a law that established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in the United States and introduced banking reforms, some of which were designed to control speculation
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Federal Securites Act
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in the aftermath of the stock market crash of 1929 and during the ensuing Great Depression.
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Agricultural Adjustment Act
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was a United States federal law of the New Deal era which restricted agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant part of their land
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Civilian Conservation Corps.
Definition
public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families, ages 18–25. A part of the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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National Industrial Recovery Act
Definition
known as the Act of June 16, 1933 (Ch. 90, 48 Stat. 195, formerly codified at 15 U.S.C. sec. 703), was an American statute which purported to authorize the President of the United States to regulate industry and permit cartels and monopolies in an attempt to stimulate economic recovery, and established a national public works program
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Deficit Spending
Definition
amount by which a government, private company, or individual's spending exceeds income over a particular period of time, also called simply "deficit," or "budget deficit," the opposite of budget surplus.
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Huey Long
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Kingfish, served as the 40th Governor of Louisiana from 1928–1932 and as a U.S. Senator from 1932 to 1935. A Democrat, he was noted for his radical populist policies
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Works Progress Administration
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was the largest and most ambitious New Deal agency, employing millions of unskilled workers to carry out public works projects
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National Youth Administration
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New Deal agency in the United States that focused on providing work and education for Americans between the ages of 16 and 24
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Wagner Act
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is a 1935 United States federal law that limits the means with which employers may react to workers in the private sector who create labor unions
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Social Security Act
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is a social insurance program that is primarily funded through dedicated payroll taxes called Federal Insurance Contributions
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Frances Perkins
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the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt, she helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition
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CIO
Definition
former United States trade union federation (also known as the Committee of Industrial Organization) that merged with the American Federation of Labor to form the AFL-CIO in 1955
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Gone with the Wind
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first published in May 1936, is a romantic novel written by Margaret Mitchell, who won the Pulitzer Prize for the book in 1937
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Grapes of Wrath
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a novel published in 1939 and written by John Steinbeck, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.
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FDIC
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a United States government corporation created by the Glass–Steagall Act of 1933. It provides deposit insurance, which guarantees the safety of deposits in member banks
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SEC
Definition
Second World War
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NLRB
Definition
an independent agency of the United States government charged with conducting elections for labor union representation and with investigating and remedying unfair labor practices.
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TVA
Definition
privately owned French language television network in Canada.
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