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| Ku Klux Klan (Knights of the Invisible Empire) |
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antiforeign, anti-Catholic, anti-black, anti-Jewish, antipacifist, anti-Communist, anti-internationalist, antievolutionist, antibootlegger, antigambling, antiadultery, and anti-birth control. It was pro-Anglo-Saxon, pro-"native" American, and pro-Protestant.
spread rapidly, especially in the Midwest and the South, claiming 5 million members. |
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| The fear of Communists in the United States (1919-1920) |
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| Marked the end of unrestricted immigration in the US. Cut quotas for foreigners from 3% to 2%. |
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| Passed in 1919,it banned alcohol |
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| Led the birth control movement |
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| Bureau of the Budget (1921) |
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| created to assist the president in preparing estimates of receipts and expenditures for submission to Congres.Designed to prevent haphazardly extravagant appropriations. |
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H.L. Mencken attacked marriage, patriotism, democracy, and prohibition in American Mercury.
F. Scott Fitzgerald-This Side of Paradise in 1920 and The Great Gatsby in 1925.
Earnest Hemingway was among the writers most affected by the war.Wrote of disillusioned, spiritually numb American expatriates in Europe in The Sun Also Rises (1926).
Sinclair Lewis-Main Street (1920) and Babbitt (1922).
Sherwood Anderson-Winesburg, Ohio (1919). |
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| believed that God was a "good guy" and the universe was a friendly place |
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| Young women who rolled their stockings, taped their breasts flat, and roughed their cheeks. They also began to wear one-piece bathing suits |
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| United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) |
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| Founded by Marcus Garvey to promote the resettlement of blacks in Africa. |
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| new feature of the postwar economy. The economy became increasingly vulnerable to disruptions of the credit structure. |
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