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10/21/2011

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Nativism
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The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
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Isolationism
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A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, esp. the political affairs of other countries
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Communism
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A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs
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Anarchists
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A person who believes in or tries to bring about anarchy
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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Anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in Massachusetts
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Quota System
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The quota system is a system devised to limit the number of visas awarded to each country for particular kinds of visas
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John Lewis
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helped organize millions of other industrial workers
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Warren Harding
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29th President of the United States; two of his appointees were involved in the Teapot Dome scandal
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Charles Hughes
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U.S. Senator from Colorado, Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Secretary of State, governor of New York
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Fordney McCumber Tariff
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Granted strong protection to America's "infant industries" like rayon, china, and chemicals, yet it was moderate in its protection of most other industrial products.
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Ohio Gang
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A group of politicians and industry leaders who came to be associated with Warren G. Harding, the twenty-ninth President of the United States of America
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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An unprecedented bribery scandal and investigation during the White House administration of United States President Warren G. Harding
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Albert Fall
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A United States Senator from New Mexico and the Secretary of the Interior under President Warren G. Harding, infamous for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal
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Calvin Coolidge
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elected vice president and succeeded as 30th President of the United States when Harding died in 1923
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Urban Sprawl
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The uncontrolled expansion of urban areas
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Installment Plan
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An arrangement for payment by installments
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Prohibition
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The action of forbidding something, esp. by law
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Speakeasy
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(during Prohibition) An illicit liquor store or nightclub
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Bootlegger
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someone who makes or sells illegal liquor
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Fundamentalism
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Strict maintenance of ancient or fundamental doctrines of any religion or ideology, notably Islam
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Clarence Darrow
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United States lawyer famous for his defense of lost causes
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Scopes Trial
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A highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school
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Flapper
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A fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior
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Charles Lindbergh
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United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean
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George Gershwin
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United States composer who incorporated jazz into classical forms and composed scores for musical comedies
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Georgia O'Keeffe
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O'Keeffe was a major figure in American art from the 1920s
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Sinclair Lewis
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United States novelist who satirized middle-class America in his novel Main Street
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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An American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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An American lyrical poet, playwright and feminist. She was the second woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and was known for her activism and her many love affairs
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Ernest Hemingway
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An American writer of fiction who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1954
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Zora Neale Hurston
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An American folklorist, anthropologist, and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance
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Marcus Garvey
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A publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, Black Nationalist, Pan-Africanist, and orator. Marcus Garvey was founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
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Harlem Renaissance
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A literary movement in the 1920s that centered on Harlem and was an early manifestation of black consciousness in the US The movement included writers such as Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston
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Langston Hughes
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An American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best-known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Louis Armstrong
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United States pioneering jazz trumpeter and bandleader
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Duke Ellington
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United States jazz composer and piano player and bandleader
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Price Support
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Government assistance in maintaining the levels of market prices regardless of supply or demand
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Credit
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The ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future
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Alfred Smith
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An American politician who was elected the 42nd Governor of New York four times, and was the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in 1928.
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Dow Jones Industrial Average
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An index of figures indicating the relative price of shares on the New York Stock Exchange, based on the average price of selected stocks
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Speculation
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The forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence
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Buying on Margin
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Purchasing a security partly with borrowed money
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Black Tuesday
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Also known as the Great Crash, and the Stock Market Crash of 1929, was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff
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was an act signed into law on June 17, 1930, that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels
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Dust Bowl
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2.An area of Oklahoma, Kansas, and northern Texas affected by severe soil erosion (caused by windstorms) in the early 1930s, which obliged many people to move
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Herbert Hoover
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31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for reelection by Franklin Roosevelt
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Boulder Dam
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A concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936, and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin Roosevelt
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Federal Home Loan Bank Act
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A United States federal law passed in 1932 under President Herbert Hoover in order to lower the cost of home ownership.
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RFC
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Request for comment
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Bonus Army
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The self-named Bonus Expeditionary Force was an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups - who protested in Washington, D.C., in spring and summer of 1932
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FDR
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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New Deal
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The economic measures introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to counteract the effects of the Great Depression.
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Glass-Steagall Act
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The Banking Act of 1933 was a law that established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in the United States and introduced banking reforms, some of which were designed to control speculation
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Federal Securities Act
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requires that investors receive significant information regarding securities being offered up for public sale and prohibits deceit, misrepresentation and other fraud in the sale of securities to the public
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Agricultural Adjustment Act
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restricted agricultural production in the New Deal era by paying farmers to reduce crop area
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Civilian Conservation Corps.
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a public work relief program for unemployed men age 18-24, providing unskilled manual labor related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural areas of the United States from 1933 to 1942
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