 | Term | Definition |
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Communism |
system of government that had no economic classes and no private property |
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Bolsheviks |
Red Army led by Vladimir I. Lenin, dreamed of establishing communism |
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Red Scare |
widespread fear of communism |
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Palmer Raids |
attack on suspected radicals; led by A. Mitchell Palmer |
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A. Mitchell Palmer |
Attorney general for the US who was one of the targets of the 1919 bombing plot; became key leader of the federal government's anti-communist campaign |
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aliens |
citizens of other countries living in the US |
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deportation |
removing an alien from one country and sending him or her to another country |
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Calvin Coolidge |
Massachusetts governor who called in states militia to end the police force strike; became hero/ champion of law and order which landed him in White House |
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John L. Lewis |
led The United Mine Workers strike |
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National Origins Act of 1924 |
set quotas for each country at 2% of the number of people from that living in the US in1890 |
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quota |
established number |
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anarchists |
radicals who sought the destruction of government |
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Nicola Sacco/Bartolomeo Vanzetti |
two Italian immigrants arrested for armed robbery and murder who claimed to be anarchists who were convicted and executed in 1927 |
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Henry Ford |
young entrepreneur who developed the assembly line/used standardized parts; designed the Model T |
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assembly line |
production system in which the item being built moves along a conveyor belt to various workstations |
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productivity |
measure of output per unit of input such as labor |
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welfare capitalism |
system in which companies provide benefits to employees in an effort to promote worker satisfaction and loyalty |
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gasoline |
by-product of petroleum |
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suburbs |
the smaller towns located outside urban areas |
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radio |
favorite new electronic home technology |
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airplane |
form of public transportation that connected the world as never before |
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installment buying |
paying for an item over time in small payments |
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credit |
borrowing money; what people bought merchandise on |
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boll weevil |
destroyed cotton crops in the South |
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"The Big Blow" |
strongest hurricane recorded in 1920s; ended Florida land boom |
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