President during 1921-1923. Caused the teapot dome scandal.
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Teapot Dome Scandal (1921)
Transferred oil reserves privately to businesses
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Calvin Coolidge
President during 1923-1929. Cut business taxes, limited farmer aid, and cut their spending.
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Stocks
Generated quick wealth via the stock market.
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Washington Naval Conference (1921-1922)
Limited the number of naval arms each country could have.
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Kellog Brand Pact (1928)
Pledged that countries will not use war to deal with issues
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Dawes act (1924)
Provided for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and extended the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians.
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19th Ammendment
Allowed women to vote
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Native American Citizen Act (1924)
Granted citizenship to natives born in the U.S
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Merriam Report (1926)
Stressed the cultural values of WASPs and demonized native americans.
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Native American Boarding Schools
Assimilated Native Americans into WASP culture
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Secularism
The separation of church and state.
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Christian Religious Fundamentalism
Stressed a literal interpretation of the Bible
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Creationism
The belief that the universe and living organisms originate from specific acts of divine creation, as in the biblical account, rather than by natural processes such as evolution.
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Scopes Monkey Trial (1925)
Banned the teaching of evolution in schools
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Return of the KKK
Demographic changed from African Americans to total white supremacy
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National Origins Act (1924)
Set a number for immigrants from east/south Europe
Banned Arabs and Asians
Restricted African immigration
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First Red Scare
A period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of far-left movements, including Bolshevism, communism and anarchism.
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Palmer Raids (1919-1920)
Arrested and tried 4,000 alleged communists
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Sacco & Vanzetti
Italian anarchists accused of murder
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18th ammendment
Banned the sale and production of alcohol in the U.S
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Bootleggers
People who produced alcohol illegally.
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Speakeasies
Illegal taverns
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Henry Ford
Creation of the first automobile.
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Technological Innovations
Cars, Motorcycles, Radio, board games, and air travel.
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Women’s roles
Working in jobs
Started attending college
Openly drinking/smoking
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Flappers
Scandalous style of dress disapproved by conservative women.
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Comstock Law (1878)
Outlawed lewd/suggestive things or contraceptives.
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American Birth Control League (1921)
Gave contraceptives and abortion supplies to those who needed it.
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Birth Control Clinic Research Bureau (1923)
Collected statistics about birth control effects.
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Eugenics
Looking for certain traits in offspring
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A-Z test (1920)
First pregnancy test where scientists inject pee into a rat.
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The Lost Generations
Artists traumatized by WWI that criticized middle class materialism.
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Harlem Renissance
Flowered black culture through art, music, and literature.
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The New Negro
A more outspoken advocacy of dignity and a refusal to submit quietly to the practices and laws of Jim Crow racial segregation.
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NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans
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Marcus Garvey
Creator of Black Nationalism
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prosperity
being successful or thriving
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nativism
policy favoring natives instead of immigrants
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immigration
travel to another country to live
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stock market
sharing and selling of stock
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flapper
WWI woman who showed freedom
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Racism
prejudice against a race
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Lynch
put to death by hanging
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Jazz
music developed by ragtime & blues
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eugenics
study improving people genetic means
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prohibition
banned alcohol since it was "ruining society"
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communism
economic goods are distributed equally
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supply tide
benifits are given to big business to give to people
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tariffs
money & duties given to imported good
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City-dwellers
A person living in a city.
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Great Migration (1910- 1920)
Many African Americans migrated to industrial cities in the North & West, filling jobs in a labor shortage that had occurred because of the First World War 1 & Jim Crow restrictions in the south.
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Modernism
A global movement in society and culture that from the early decades of the twentieth century sought a new alignment with the experience and values of modern industrial life.
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Traditionalism
\ The adherence to traditional beliefs or practices.
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