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EOC SG 4
study for End of Coarse exam
Question | Answer |
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communism | the government establishes who gets what everyone equal |
red scare | people feared each other being communists, turned on each other |
Sacco and Vanzetti | 2 Italian immigrants who were accused of murder because they were communists |
isolationism | United States stays out of foreign wars and affairs |
prohibition | 18th amendment making the sale of alcohol illegal from 1927 to 1932 |
speak easies | illegal dance and bars in basements of cities where flappers and gangsters hung out |
flappers | women who had no marriage and lots of freedoms, wore short skirts, and drank alcohol |
gangsters | Italian, Jewish, and Irish lowlifes who used the sale of illegal alcohol to benefit financially and politically |
Harlem Renaissance | African Americans cultural explosion that includes jazz, poetry, writing, novels, etc. |
Booker T Washington | ex slave who calls for individuals to learn useful agricultural skills; found the Tuskesee Institute |
Marcus Garvey | calls for all African Americans to go back to Africa; creates a company which shipped African Americans to Nigeria |
WEB Dubois | Harvard educated the 1st African American to get a doctorate at Harvard; calls for all African Americans to get lined arts defines 'college', then prove equillity incorporate |
19th amendment | women gets the right to vote |
NAACP | National Association for Advancement of Colored People; African Americans figure out WEB Dubois tight for equality of all racists |
KKK | an organization that lynched and attacked African Americans |
Rosewood | entying African American town in Florida burned to the ground |
nativism | push to stop immigration and keep the United States white |
quota system | only 2% of the population from a foreign country could enter the United States |