| A | B |
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| communism | an economic & social system that advocates a single political party and state ownership of property |
| Red Scare | nationwide panic that the communists were going to take over the US as they were doing in Russia |
| A Mitchell Palmer | Woodrow Wilson’s Attorney General who took action to combat the nation’s first “Red Scare” in 1919 |
| anarchist | people who opposed any and all forms of government |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | immigrant anarchists who were victims of the first “Red Scare”. Executed for robbery & murder in an unfair trial that received worldwide attention. |
| Ku Klux Klan | nationwide racist & anti-immigrant organization that dominated state politics in the 1920’s; aka: the invisible empire |
| Calvin Coolidge | Massachusetts’ Republican governor who took a tough stand against striking Boston police officers, his stand brought him to national attention and won him the vice-presidency in the election of 1920. |
| John L. Lewis | strong-willed president of the United Mine Workers; often put union interests above national interests |
| Warren G Harding | Republican Senator form Ohio; compromise candidate in 1920; a voice of calm in anxious times |
| normalcy | a return to the simpler times before the progressive movement |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | international treaty that renounced was as a tool of national policy |
| Washington Naval Conference | post WWI conference of major powers that attempted voluntary disarmament |
| Fordney-McCumber Tariff | protective tax on imports making importation to the US nearly impossible and accelerating economic problems in Europe |
| quota system | immigration system which limits the number of people coming into the US from other countries |
| Ohio gang | members of Harding’s cabinet, friends from home, who participated in various scandals |
| Albert Fall | one of the Ohio gang, Harding’s Sec. of the Interior, principle in the Teapot Dome scandal |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | secret leasing of protected federal lands to private oil companies by Albert Fall for personal profit |
| urban sprawlin | the rapid expansion of cities in all directions |
| stallment plan | purchasing products, over time, with low interest rates |
| isolationist | a person who opposes political and economic entanglements with other countries |
