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| Flapper Girls | Girls who annoyed the older generation by smoking in public, wearing short skirts, short hair styles, and using lots of makeup; they were considered rebellious in nature. |
| The Immigration Restriction League | A group formed that claimed to have 'scientific' evidence that new immigrants from Southeast Europe were racially inferior, and that new immigrants posed a threat to the supremacy of white USA. |
| Immigrant | A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country. |
| WASP | This stands for white Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Many Americans during this era were concerned with only populating our country with these types of people. |
| Protestant | A person who practices a religion that comes from Christianity. |
| Anglo-Saxon | People whose ancestors are from Northeastern Europe. |
| Ku Klux Klan | A group of people who formed an organization in the South after the Civil War; the KKK was against the emancipation (or freeing) of the slaves. |
| Flagpole Sitting | An outlandish fad of the 1920s where people competed to see how long they could set on top of a flagpole for money and fame |
| Marathon Dancing | An activity where couples would compete in a dance-off for many hours, whoever was left standing was the winner. |
| Radios | A new invention of this era that people used for entertainment to listen to shows, news and music. |
| Record Player | A new invention of this era, for the first time ever, Americans could listen to their favorite recorded music over and over again. |
| Car | A new invention of this era, people became more mobile and traveling was a part of everyday life. |
| Marathon | Any act that is conducted for long period of time. |
| Spectator Sports | Different types of activities such as baseball, football, boxing, and wrestling, that people watched for entertainment. |
