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- the first red scare - 1919 to 1920
- the second red scare - 1947 to 1957
- emergency quota act - 1921
- prohibition - 1920 to 1923
- women get the vote - 1920
- wall street crash - 1929
- start of the new deal - 1933
- korean war - 1950 to 1953
- brown vs board of education - 1954
- vietnam war - 1955 to 1975
- montgomery bus boycott - 1954 to 1956
- equal pay act - 1963
- civil rights act - 1964
- voting rights act - 1965
- moon landing - 1969
- equal rights act - 1972
- fuel prices deregulated, wage + price regulations removed - 1981
- economic tax recovery act - 1981
- omnibus budget reconciliation act - 1981
- saving and loan institutions deregulated - 1982
- tax reform act - 1986
- WASP - white anglo-saxon protestant
- tariffs - taxes on imports that are imposed by a country to encourage or discourage trading abroad
- who introduced the 'return to normalcy'?harding
- who reintroduced 'isolationism'?harding
- laissez-faire is a policy of government that allows businesses to make their own decisions, it meant minimal government interference
- 1919 - numerous strikes and riots, 100000 workers were on strike; bombs explode in 8 cities targeting public officials
- 1920 - fbi raids 33 cities and between 5000 and 10000 arrests of potential communists were made
- what were the palmer raids?government raids on suspected radical communists and anarchists in the 1920s
- Who was the US president from 1981-89?Ronald Reagan
- Freedom RidersActivists who rode buses through the South to test integration of public transportation in 1961
- Voting Rights Act of 1965Federal law that prohibited racial discrimination in voting, passed in 1965
- Rosa ParksAfrican American woman who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Nation of IslamIslamic organization led by Elijah Muhammad, which Malcolm X joined and became a minister in
- Martin Luther King JrLeader of the nonviolent civil rights movement, known for his powerful speeches and advocacy for racial equality