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| Alvin York | American soldier in World War I; Most highly decorated American soldier in that war. |
| Tin Pan Alley | This section of New York City where musicians and song-writers formed the beginnings of American music including blues, jazz, and ragtime |
| Prohibition | This movement against the sale of alcohol resulted in a disrespect for the law and a rise in organized crime |
| Red Scare | fear of Communists, anarchists and immigrants after the end of World War I. Led to the Palmer Raids. |
| Glenn Curtiss | the first person to fly a publicly viewed flight. also manufactured airplanes, built the largest fleet during World War I |
| American Indians | This group gained citizenship with an act in 1924 in large part from their contributions during World War I. |
| Charles Lindbergh | famous for the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean |
| Flappers | This term was used to describe women who rejected traditional female clothing and behaviors exercising their independence, smoking in public and wearing shorter dresses. |
| National Origins | This act established a maximum number of immigrants who cold enter the US from each country. Eastern and southern European were discriminated against. |
| Great Migration | This movement of African Americans who lost their jobs in the south and followed the promise of jobs in the North |
| Henry Ford | Engineer and early automobile manufacture. His goal was to build an automobile that everyone could afford. |
| Ku Klux Klan | The increasingly tense race relations in the country saw a resurgence of this group, formerly focused on racial prejudice now included hostility towards immigrants. |
| Nativism | The term for a dislike or distrust of foreigners. Belief that new immigration cold drastically change the dominant culture. |
| Clarence Darrow | Defended Scopes during the Scopes Trial. challenging William Jennings Bryan's testimony in 1925. |
| Harlem Renaissance | Term for the development of African American art, literature and music. Key people included Langston Hughes, Alain Locke and Zora Neale Hurston. |
| William Jennings Bryan | Helped prosecute John Scopes during the Scopes "monkey" trail for teaching evolution |
| Return to Normalcy | the name for Warren Harding's plan that included reducing government intervention in the government, high tariffs and an isolationist foreign policy. |
| Social Darwinism | This is the belief that different human races competed for survival like plants and animals in the natural world. |
| Eugenics | Policy led to the sterilization of over 64,000 Americans in order to keep the US a superior race. It specifically targeted the mentally ill. |
| Marcus Garvey | Advocated racial pride and supported a Back to Africa movement for African Americans |
| Dorthea Lange | photographer of migrant workers and displayed the living conditions during the Great Depression |
