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Warren Harding
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29th President; focus on peace abroad and propserity; corrupt president; Ohio Gang and Teapot Dome Gang
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Assembly line
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Manufacturing using a conveyor belt to move materials to workers who stay in one place to work
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Installment buying
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Paying for items in small monthly payment
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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Corruption by a Harding cabinet member, who tokk bribes to allow oil drilling on public lands
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Calvin Coolidge
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30th president; served from 1923-1929; with a pro-business; vice president who took over after Pres. Harding
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Laissez-faire economics
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Theory that business, if free of government regulation, will act in ways that benefit the nation
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Credit
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Arrangement for delayed payment of a loan or purchase
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Tariff
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Tax on imported goods
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Flapper
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A young woman eager to try the latest fashion, dance, or fad
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Jazz Age
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Name for the 1920's , a new type of American music that combined African rhythms, blues, and ragtime
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Mass media
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Communications that reach a large audience
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Popular culture
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Movies, fashions, songs, slang, and other expressions culture that appeal to many people
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Prohibition
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Legal ban on alcohol imposed by the Eighteen Amendment
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Speakeasies
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Nightclubs that illegally served alcohol
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Fundamentalism
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A religious belief that everything in the Bible is true; they objected to public schools teaching evolution; John Scopes, biology teacher broke this law
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