Red Scare
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Red Scare
- A Red Scare is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents.
Palmer Raids
- The Palmer Raids were a series of raids by the United States Department of Justice intended to capture, arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States.
Nativism
- the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
Eugenics
- is a set of beliefs and practices which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population.
Ku Klux Klan
- is the name of three distinct past and present movements in the United States that have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically expressed through terrorism aimed at groups or individuals whom they opposed.
Fundamentalism
- a form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture.
Prohibition
- is the act of prohibiting the manufacturing, storage in barrels, bottles, transportation and sale of alcohol including alcoholic beverages.
Speakeasy
- is an establishment that illegally sells alcoholic beverages. Such establishments came into prominence in the United States during the Prohibition era 1920–1933
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Flappers
- a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.
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Surrealism
- a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.
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Cubism
- was one of the most influential visual art styles of the early twentieth century. It was created by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) and Georges Braque (French, 1882–1963) in Paris between 1907 and 1914.
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Art Deco
- is an elegant style of decorative art, design and architecture which began as a Modernist reaction against the Art Nouveau style. It is characterized by the use of angular, symmetrical geometric forms.
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Les Fauves
- a loose group of early twentieth-century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism.
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Model T
- is an automobile that was produced by Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927.
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Harlem Renaissance
- was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s.
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Back to Africa
- movement, also known as the Colonization movement or Black Zionism, originated in the United States in the 19th century.
NAACP
- The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 by Moorfield Storey, Mary White Ovington and W. E. B. Du Bois.
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Jazz
- The period from the end of the First World War until the start of the Depression in 1929 is known as the "Jazz Age".
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Installment Plans
- is the legal term for a contract, in which a purchaser agrees to pay for goods in parts or a percentage over a number of months. In Canada and the United States, a hire purchase is termed an installment plan although these may differ slightly as in a hire purchase agreement the ownership of the good remains with the seller until the last payment is made.
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18th Amendment
- of the United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring illegal the production, transport, and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession)
19th Amendment
- to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex.
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21st Amendmen
- The Twenty-first Amendment (Amendment XXI) to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920.
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National Origins Act
- In 1924 Congress passed a discriminatory immigration law that restricted the immigration of Southern and Eastern Europeans and practically excluded Asians and other nonwhites from entry into the United States.
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Volstead Act
- The National Prohibition Act, known informally as the Volstead Act, was enacted to carry out the intent of the Eighteenth Amendment, which established prohibition in the United States.
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Sacco & Vanzetti
- were Italian-born US anarchists who were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company, committed April 15, 1920, in South Braintree, Massachusetts, United States, and were executed by electrocution seven years later at Charlestown State Prison.
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Scopes Trial
- The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial
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Al Capone
- was an American gangster who attained fame during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit.
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Warren Harding
- was the 29th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1921 until his death.
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Calvin Coolidge
- A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state.
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Marcus Garvey
- was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
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Zora Neale Hurston
- was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
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Langston Hughes
- James Mercer Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. His parents divorced when he was a young child, and his father moved to Mexico.
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Louis Armstrong
- was an American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer who was one of the pivotal and most influential figures in jazz music.
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Duke Ellington
- was an American composer, pianist and bandleader of jazz orchestras.
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