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| erupted in the early 1920's. The American public was scared that communism would come into the US. Left-winged supporters were suspected. This fear of communism helped businessman who used it to stop labor strikes. |
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| Volstead Act/Prohibition/18th amendment |
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| implemented the 18th Amendment. It established illegal alcohol at above .5%. |
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| movement that pushed that the teachings of Darwin were destroying faith in God and the Bible. It consisted of the old-time religionists who didn't want to conform to modern science. |
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| 1925; teacher John Scopes on trial for teaching evolution; raised countrywide debate on whether people believed in evolution or creationism |
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| Italian immigrants charged with murder and robbery on circumstantial evidence; court was likely biased because they were pro-union anarchists |
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| Made the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean |
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| Raids on the homes of and arrests of suspected communists in America |
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| Justice Holmes' claim that Congress could restrict speech if the words "are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create and clear and present danger" when Schenck was convicted for mailing pamphlets urging potential army inductees to resist conscription |
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| a bribery incident which took place in the United States in 1922-1923, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome to private oil companies, without competitive bidding, at low rates. In 1922 and 1923, the leases became the subject of a sensational investigation. Fall was later convicted of accepting bribes from the oil companies |
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