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| 24026304 | capitalism | economic system based on private property and free enterprise | |
| 625608703 | anarchists | people who believe there should be no government | |
| 675148556 | deported | expelled from a country | |
| 675148557 | red scare | a period when the government went after 'reds' - as communists were known - and others with radical views | |
| 675148558 | a. mitchell palmer | attorney general who ordered the arrest of people suspected of being communists and anarchists | |
| 675148559 | nicola sacco | italian immigrant who robbed a shoe factory and killed a guard | |
| 675148560 | bartolomeo vanzetti | italian immigrant who robbed a shoe factory and killed a guard | |
| 675148561 | a. philip randolph | african american who started the brotherhood of sleeping car porters | |
| 675148562 | marcus garvey | founded the universal negro improvement association (unia) in 1914 to promote racial unity and pride; supported a 'back-to-africa' movement | |
| 675148564 | leased | rented | |
| 675148565 | albert fall | first cabinet officer ever to go to jail | |
| 675148566 | ohio gang | the group of friends and political supports that president harding gave jobs to | |
| 675148567 | charles forbes | one of the ohio gang; became head of the veterans bureau | |
| 675148568 | harry daugherty | one of the ohio gang; became attorney general | |
| 675148569 | albert fall | one of the ohio gang; because secretary of the interior | |
| 675148570 | andrew mellon | a prominent pittsburgh banker and financier who headed the treasury department | |
| 675148571 | herbert hoover | a talented organizer who headed the secretary of commerce | |
| 675148572 | charles evans hughes | former supreme court justice became the secretary of state | |
| 675148574 | five-power treaty | signed by united states, great britain, japan, france, and italy; it limited the size of nations' navies; treaty marked the first time in modern history that world powers agreed to disarm | |
| 675148575 | nellie tayloe ross | woman who became governor in wyoming | |
| 675148576 | miriam ferguson | woman who became governor in texas | |
| 675148577 | recession | economic downturn | |
| 675148578 | gross national product | the total value of all goods and services produced | |
| 675148579 | productivity | the amount of work each worker does | |
| 675148580 | assembly line | mass production technique that increased productivity and cut production costs | |
| 675148581 | scientific management | hiring experts to study how goods could be produced more quickly | |
| 675148582 | welfare capitalism | steps that were designed to link workers more closely to the company they worked for | |
| 675148583 | installment buying | consumers would buy products by promising to pay small regular amounts over a period of time | |
| 675148584 | detroit, michigan | became the automobile manufacturing center of the world | |
| 675148585 | model t | car built using assembly line methods | |
| 675148586 | henry ford | pioneer in the manufacture of affordable automobiles | |
| 675148587 | model a | car that had better engineering and came in several colors | |
| 675148588 | charles lindbergh | became the first person to fly alone across the atlantic ocean | |
| 675148589 | spirit of st. louis | tiny, single-engine plane that lindbergh flew in | |
| 675148590 | nineteenth amendment | guaranteed women in all states the right to vote | |
| 675148591 | flappers | carefree young women with short, 'bobbed' hair, heavy makeup, and short skirts | |
| 675148592 | mass media | forms of communication, such as newspapers and radio | |
| 675148593 | babe ruth | great baseball outfielder | |
| 675148594 | jazz age | during the 1920s people danced to the beat of a new kind of music which captured the spirit of the era | |
| 675148595 | improvisation | new rhythms and melodies created during a performance | |
| 675148596 | louis armstrong | trumpeter; american jazz musician | |
| 675148597 | duke ellington | pianist and composer; american jazz musician | |
| 675148598 | bessie smith | singer; american jazz musician | |
| 675148599 | paul whiteman and bix biederbecke | white musicians who also played jazz and helped bring it to a wider audience | |
| 675148600 | harlem renaissance | movement that instilled an interest in african culture and pride in being an african american | |
| 675148601 | expatriates | people who choose to live in another country | |
| 675148602 | gertrude stein | writer who called expatriates the lost generation | |
| 675148603 | f. scott fitzgerald | novelist who joined the expatriates in europe; who wrote 'tender is the night' | |
| 675148604 | ernest hemingway | famous american expatriate novelist who wrote 'the sun also rises' and 'a farewell to arms' | |
| 675148605 | sinclair lewis | novelist who stayed in american and wrote about life in america | |
| 675148606 | sherwood anderson | influential american writer; most famous book 'winesburg, ohio' | |
| 675148607 | prohibition | a total ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor through the united states | |
| 675148608 | eighteenth amendment | established prohibition | |
| 675148609 | volstead act | to provide the means of enforcing prohibition | |
| 675148610 | bootlegging | making and selling illegal alcohol | |
| 675148611 | twenty-first amendment | repealed prohibition in 1933 | |
| 675148612 | nativism | the belief that native-born americans are superior to foreigners | |
| 675148613 | al 'scarface' capone | crime boss who controlled organized crime and local politics in chicago | |
| 675148614 | emergency quota act | act that established a quota system on the number of immigrants from each country | |
| 675148615 | quota system | an arrangement placing a limit on the number of immigrants from each country | |
| 675148616 | national origins act | act that reduced the annual country quota from 3 to 2 percent and based it on the census of 1890 | |
| 675148617 | evolution | the scientific theory that humans evolved over vast periods of time | |
| 675148619 | william jennings bryan | famous democratic candidate for president in 1896, 1900 and 1908 and a strong opponent of evolution | |
| 675148620 | clarence darrow | defended many radicals and labor union members | |
| 675148621 | alfred e. smtih | governor of new york; son of immigrants and a man of the city; he opposed prohibition and championed the poor and the working class |
