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Vocabulary 12+13
Chapter 12 + 13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nativism | Favoring the interests of native-born over foreign born people |
| Isolationism | Policy of retreating from foreign affairs. |
| Communism | an economic and political system based on one-party government and state ownership of property. |
| Anarchists | A person who opposes all forms of government. |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | Immigrants and anarchists-convicted murder |
| Quota System | a system that sets limits on how many immigrants from various countries a nation will admit each year. |
| John L. Lewis | President of the United Mine Workers of American, led workers to coal miners strike of 1919 |
| Warren Harding | 29th President in 1921; urged to return to "normalcu" but would be plagued by scandal during his administration. |
| Fordney-Mccumber Tariff | A set of regulations that raised taxes on imports to record levels in order to protect American businesses against foreign competition. |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | Secretary of Interior Albert B Fall's secret leasing of oil-rich public land to private companies in return for money and land |
| Albert B. Fall | Secretary of Interior under Harding |
| Calvin Coolidge | President of U.S.(1923-1929) succeeded after the death of Harding |
| Urban sprawl | The unplanned of the uncontrolled spreading of cities into surrounding regions |
| Installment plan | an arrangement in which a purchaser pays over an extended time, without having to put down much money at a time of purchase. |
| Prohibition | Banning of the manufacture, sale, and possession of alcoholic beverages |
| Speak-easy | Underground saloons and night clubs |
| Bootlegger | A person who smuggled alcoholic beverages into the U.S. during prohibition. |
| Fundamentalism | a protestant religious movement grounded in the belief that all stories and details in the bible are literally true |
| Clarence Darrow | Famous trial lawyer who defended Scopes in trial against the teaching of evolution |
| Scopes Trial | A fight over evolution and role of science and religion in U.S. public schools |
| Double standard | Set of principles granting sexual freedom to men than to women |
| Nativism | Favoring the interests of native-born over foreign born people |
| Isolationism | Policy of retreating from foreign affairs. |
| Communism | an economic and political system based on one-party government and state ownership of property. |
| Anarchists | A person who opposes all forms of government. |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | Immigrants and anarchists-convicted murder |
| Quota System | a system that sets limits on how many immigrants from various countries a nation will admit each year. |
| John L. Lewis | President of the United Mine Workers of American, led workers to coal miners strike of 1919 |
| Warren Harding | 29th President in 1921; urged to return to "normalcu" but would be plagued by scandal during his administration. |
| Fordney-Mccumber Tariff | A set of regulations that raised taxes on imports to record levels in order to protect American businesses against foreign competition. |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | Secretary of Interior Albert B Fall's secret leasing of oil-rich public land to private companies in return for money and land |
| Albert B. Fall | Secretary of Interior under Harding |
| Calvin Coolidge | President of U.S.(1923-1929) succeeded after the death of Harding |
| Urban sprawl | The unplanned of the uncontrolled spreading of cities into surrounding regions |
| Installment plan | an arrangement in which a purchaser pays over an extended time, without having to put down much money at a time of purchase. |
| Prohibition | Banning of the manufacture, sale, and possession of alcoholic beverages |
| Speak-easy | Underground saloons and night clubs |
| Bootlegger | A person who smuggled alcoholic beverages into the U.S. during prohibition. |
| Fundamentalism | a protestant religious movement grounded in the belief that all stories and details in the bible are literally true |
| Clarence Darrow | Famous trial lawyer who defended Scopes in trial against the teaching of evolution |
| Scopes Trial | A fight over evolution and role of science and religion in U.S. public schools |
| Double standard | Set of principles granting sexual freedom to men than to women |
| Zora Neale Hurston | Anthropologist and author; collected the folklore or poor southern blacks. |
| Marcus Garvey | Black nationalist leader |
| Harvey Renaissance | a flowering of African American artistic creativity, centered in the Harlem Community of NYC |
| Langston Hughes | Poet who described the difficult lives of working class African Americans |
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