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Flappers
Women started wearing short skirts and bobbed hair, and had more freedom.
18th Amendment
Prohibition
19th Amendment
Gave Women the right to vote
Contracts some employers forced workers to sign that made the workers promise not to join a union
Yellow Dog Contract
corruption by a Harding cabinet member, who took bribes to allow oil drilling on public lands; stress led to Harding's death.
Teapot Dome Scandal
science dealing with improving hereditary qualities,
Eugenics
1921 legislation that limited immigration to 3% of the people of their nationality living in the US in 1910
Emergency Quota Act of 1921
An economic philosophy that holds the sharply cutting taxes will increase the incentive people have to work, save, and invest. Greater investments will lead to more jobs, a more productive economy, and more tax revenues for the government.
Supply Side Economics
the Secretary of the Treasury during the Harding Administration. He felt it was best to invest in tax-exempt securities rather than in factories that provided prosperous payrolls. He believed in trickle down economics. also known as supply
Andrew Mellon
(1922) Federal law that raised tariff rates on manufactured goods and levied high duties on imported agricultural goods.
Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act
A group of poker-playing, men that were friends of President Warren Harding. Harding appointed them to offices and they used their power to gain money for themselves. They were involved in scandals that ruined Harding's reputation even thou
Ohio gang
Italian radicals who became symbols of the Red Scare of the 1920s;
Sacco and Vanzetti
Part of the Red Scare, these were measures to hunt out political radicals and immigrants who were potential threats to American security; led to the arrest of nearly 5,500 people and the deportation of nearly 400.
Palmer raids
the shifting of wealth from a rich minority to a poor majority
redistribution of wealth
Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party(Communist)
Eugene V Debs
founder of modern communism
Karl Marx
