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4268064877Adkins v Children's Hospital1923 Supreme Court case that voided a minimum a minimum wage for women workers in DC reversing many of the gains that had bee achieved through the Muller v. Oregon.0
4268064878Welfare capitalismAn approach to labor relations in which companies meet some of their workers' needs (improved benefits and higher wages) without prompting by unions, thus preventing strikes and keeping productivity high1
4268066677Red ScareTerm for the communism that swept the country first after WWI, led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and suppression of civil liberties in the spirit of preemption.2
4268066678Palmer raidsA series of raids on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920, when federal agents arrested 6,000 citizens and aliens and denied the prisoners access to legal counsel.3
4268071211Sheppard-Towner Federal Maternity and Infancy ActThe first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics, prenatal education programs, and visiting nurses.4
4268075014Women's International League for Peace and FreedomOrganization that denounced imperialism, stressed human suffering caused by militarism, and proposed social justice measures.5
4268079622associated stateA system of voluntary business cooperation with government.6
4268081047Teapot DomeSecretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall's accepted bribes to secretly lease oil-rich public land to private companies .7
4268081048dollar diplomacyPolicy emphasizing the connection between America's economic and political interests overseas.8
4268083695prohibitionThe ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920 with the 18th amendment. Repealed by the 21st amendment.9
4268085301American Civil Liberties UnionAn organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.10
4268085302Scopes trialHighly publicized court case argued by Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan in which the issue of teaching evolution in public schools was debated.11
4268088921National Origins ActA United States federal law that limited the number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890, according to the Census of 1890.12
4268093504Ku Klux KlanSecret Society that first thwarted black freedom after the Civil War that was reborn in 1915 to fight against perceived threats posed by African Americans, immigrants, radicals, feminists, Catholic, and Jews.13
4268093505Harlem RenaissanceThe group of African American artists, intellectuals, and social leaders who lived in Harlem in the 1920s.14
4268095357jazzUnique American musical form developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I.15
4268098394Universal Negro ImprovementA Harlem-based group, led by charismatic, Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey, that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.16
4268100010Pan-AfricanismArgued that people of African descent, in all parts of the world had a common destiny and should cooperate in political action.17
4268100011Lost GenerationYoung artists and writers who felt alienated from America's mass-culture society in the 1920s. Major writers: Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.18
4268101514consumer creditNew forms of borrowing such as auto loans and installment plans.19
4268101515HollywoodCity in Californian where by the 1920s nearly 90% of all the films in the world were produced.20
4268101516flapperYoung women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.21
4268134174soft powerThe exercise of popular cultural influence, as radio and movies in the 1920s celebrated the American Dream.22
4268833206BolshevicsMember of Russian soviet democratic party.23
4269229092League of Women VotersFormed to support the 19th amendment, ERA, federal aid for maternal and childcare, Social Security, and social welfare.24
4269850938U. S. Border PatrolEstablished after the National Origins Act to police the border.25

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