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| 1.A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, esp. the political affairs of other countries |
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| 1.A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs |
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| Ferdinando Nicola Sacco (April 22, 1891–August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (June 11, 1888–August 23, 1927) were anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in Massachusetts. |
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| The Quota System (also known as The Quod), introduced by Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger in 1795, required each English county to provide a quota of men for the Royal Navy, based on its population and the number of its seaports -- London, for example, had to provide 5,704 quotamen, while |
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| John R. Lewis (born November 2, 1954) is a Republican politician from California who represented Orange County in the California State Senate from 1991 until 2000 and in the California State Assembly from 1980 until 1991. He currently serves as the President of the Lewis Consulting Group |
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| 29th President of the United States; two of his appointees were involved in the Teapot Dome scandal (1865-1823) |
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| Charles Hughes may refer to: * Charles J. Hughes, Jr. (1853–1911), U.S. Senator from Colorado * Charles Evans Hughes (1862–1948), Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Secretary of State, governor of New York * Charles E |
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| The Fordney–McCumber Tariff also known as the Fordney McCumber Act, reflected American isolationist inclinations following World War I. |
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| The Ohio Gang was a group of politicians and industry leaders who came to be associated with Warren G. Harding, the twenty-ninth President of the United States of America. |
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| Teapot Dome: a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921; became symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration |
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| Albert Bacon Fall (November 26, 1861 - November 30, 1944) was a United States Senator from New Mexico and the Secretary of the Interior under President Warren G. Harding, infamous for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal |
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| Coolidge: elected vice president and succeeded as 30th President of the United States when Harding died in 1923 (1872-1933) |
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| 1.An arrangement for payment by installments |
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| secret bars during the prohibition era |
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| someone who makes or sells illegal liquor |
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| 1.A form of Protestant Christianity that upholds belief in the strict and literal interpretation of the Bible, including its narratives, doctrines, prophecies, and moral laws |
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| United States lawyer famous for his defense of lost causes (1857-1938 |
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| a highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school; Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow; Scopes was convicted but the verdict was later reversed |
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| A fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior |
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| United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1902-1974 |
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| United States composer who incorporated jazz into classical forms and composed scores for musical comedies (1898-1937) |
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| Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 - March 6, 1986) was an American artist. Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe was a major figure in American art from the 1920s. |
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| United States novelist who satirized middle-class America in his novel Main Street (1885-1951) |
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| United States author whose novels characterized the Jazz Age in the United States (1896-1940) |
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| Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 - October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet, playwright and feminist.Obituary Variety, October 25, 1950. She was the second woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and was known for her activism and her many love affairs. |
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| Hemingway: an American writer of fiction who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1954 (1899-1961) |
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| Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 - January 28, 1960) was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance |
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| Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., National Hero of Jamaica (17 August 1887 10 June 1940 ) was a publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, Black Nationalist, Pan-Africanist, and orator. Marcus Garvey was founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) |
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| 1.A literary movement in the 1920s that centered on Harlem and was an early manifestation of black consciousness in the US The movement included writers such as Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston |
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| United States writer (1902-1967) |
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| United States pioneering jazz trumpeter and bandleader (1900-1971) |
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| United States jazz composer and piano player and bandleader (1899-1974) |
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| a government subsidy used to maintain prices at a certain level |
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| 1.The ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future |
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| Alfred Emanuel Smith, Jr. (December 30, 1873 - October 4, 1944), known in private and public life as Al Smith, was an American politician who was elected the 42nd Governor of New York four times, and was the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in 1928. |
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| 1.An index of figures indicating the relative price of shares on the New York Stock Exchange, based on the average price of selected stocks |
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In finance, a margin is collateral that the holder of a financial instrument has to deposit to cover some or all of the credit risk of his counterparty (most often his broker or an exchange |
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| The Wall Street Crash of 1929 (October 1929), also known as the Great Crash, and the Stock Market Crash of 1929, was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout |
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| The Smoot–Hawley Tariff or Hawley–Smoot Tariff (P.L. 71-361, officially named, the Tariff Act of 1930) was an act signed into law on June 17, 1930, that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels |
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| 2.An area of Oklahoma, Kansas, and northern Texas affected by severe soil erosion (caused by windstorms) in the early 1930s, which obliged many people to move |
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| The Federal Home Loan Bank Act is a United States federal law passed in 1932 under President Herbert Hoover in order to lower the cost of home ownership. |
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| hoover said if you have trouble then just ask someone else |
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| The self-named Bonus Expeditionary Force was an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups - who protested in Washington, D.C., in spring and summer of 1932 |
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| franklin deleno roosevelt president served 4 times |
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| 1.The economic measures introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to counteract the effects of the Great Depression. It involved a massive public works program, complemented by the large-scale granting of loans, and succeeded in reducing unemployment by between 7 and 10 million |
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| The Banking Act of 1933 was a law that established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in the United States and introduced banking reforms, some of which were designed to control speculation. |
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| Congress enacted the Securities Act of 1933 (the 1933 Act, the Securities Act, the Truth in Securities Act, the Federal Securities Act, or the '33 Act, , enacted 1933-05-27, codified at et seq.), in the aftermath of the stock market crash of 1929 and during the ensuing Great Depression |
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The Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) (, 48 Stat. 31, enacted May 12, 1933) restricted agricultural production in the New Deal era by paying farmers to reduce crop area |
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| The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program for unemployed men age 18-24, providing unskilled manual labor related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural areas of the United States from 1933 to 1942 |
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| The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), officially known as the Act of June 16, 1933 (Ch. 90, 48 Stat. 195, formerly codified at 15 U.S.C. sec. |
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| Huey Pierce Long, Jr. (August 30, 1893 - September 10, 1935), nicknamed The Kingfish, served as the 40th Governor of Louisiana from 1928–1932 and as a U.S. Senator from 1932 to 1935. A Democrat, he was noted for his radical populist policies. Though a backer of Franklin D |
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| wife of Franklin Roosevelt and a strong advocate of human rights (1884-1962) |
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| The Works Progress Administration (renamed during 1939 as the Work Projects Administration; WPA) was the largest New Deal agency, employing millions to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads, and operated large arts, drama, media, and literacy |
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| The National Youth Administration (NYA) was a New Deal agency in the United States. It operated from 1935 to 1943 as part of the Works Progress Administration |
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| The National Labor Relations Act or Wagner Act (after its sponsor, Senator Robert F. Wagner) (, , codified as amended at ), is a 1935 United States federal law that limits the means with which employers may react to workers in the private sector that create labor unions, engage in collective |
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| Frances Perkins (April 10, 1880 – May 14, 1965), born Fannie Coralie Perkins, was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin D |
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| 1.Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, a body that underwrites most private bank deposits |
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| Securities and Exchange Commission, a US governmental agency that monitors trading in securities and company takeov |
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