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The Ku Klux Klan
A group of white supremacists in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, and Indianapolis -
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18th amendment
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Red Scare
Widespread labor unrest in 1919, combined with a wave of bombings, Communist in Russia, and the short-lived Communist revolt in Hungary fed a fear that the US was also on the verge of a revolution -
National Origins act
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Monkey Trial
Monkey Trial, first court trial to ever be broadcasted over the radio. Was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.