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A 1920 operation coordinated by Attorney General Mitchel Palmer in which federal marshals raided the homes of suspected radicals and the headquarters of radical organizations; 556 immigrants deported

fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life; in the wake of the Russian Revolution

(1919) , The court upheld the Sedition Act of four Russian immigrants who had printed pamphlets denouncing American military intervention in the Russian Revolution.

A 1919 decision upholding the conviction of a socialist who had urged young men to resist the draft during World War I

originally was the National Civil Liberties Bureau. an organization founded in 1920 to defend Americans' rights and freedoms as given in the Constitution

Later FBI, set up in 1924 under J Hoover and used tougher methods against corruption

1918 global outbreak of influenza, a highly contagious viral infection, killing as many as 50 million people worldwide; 675,000 Americans

movement of over 400,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920

A government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921

A justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932 who had the authority to prohibit individuals from using words that create danger for the country.

Attorney General who rounded up many suspects who were thought to be un-American and socialistic; he helped to increase the Red Scare

The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who investigated and harassed alleged radicals.

Secretary of Treasury under President Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, who instituted a Republican policy of reduced government spending, lower taxes to the wealthy and higher tariffs

1863-1947. American businessman, founder of Ford Motor Company, father of modern assembly lines, and inventor credited with 161 patents.

Became president when Harding died of pneumonia. He was a true republican and industrialist. Believed in the government supporting big business.

29th president of the US; Republican; "Return to Normalcy" (life as it had been before WWI-peace, isolation); presidency was marred by scandal (wanted big business)

term for sexually liberated woman, who defied traditional morality (flappers)

A term used by the writer Gertrude Stein to describe the writers and artists disillusioned with the consumer culture of the 1920s.

a term popularized during the Harlem Renaissance implying a more outspoken advocacy of dignity and a refusal to submit quietly to the practices and laws of Jim Crow racial segregation.

A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished

An association founded by Marcus Garvey that promoted black pride and black unity

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants charged with murdering a guard and robbing a shoe factory; trial focused on their ethnicity and political views rather than facts

Very restrictive immigration legislation passed in 1924, which lowered immigration dramatically and, quite intentionally, almost eliminated immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe.

African American leader during the 1920s who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and advocated mass migration of African Americans back to Africa

Leading African American jazz musician during the Harlem Renaissance; he was a talented trumpeter whose style influenced many later musicians.

African American poet who described the rich culture of African American life using rhythms influenced by jazz music

African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance

Black socialist leader who saw the UNIA as exploitive capitalism

Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.

In 1920 these two men were convicted of murder and robbery. They were found guilty and died in the electric chair unfairly; example of 1920s nativism.

United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1902-1974)

"Home Run King" in baseball, provided an idol for young people and a figurehead for America

wrote The Great Gatsby