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Chapters 12- 13 Voca
Term | Definition |
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Nativism | Prejudice against foreign-born people |
Isolationism | A policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs |
Communism | an economic and political system based on a single-party government ruled by a dictatorship |
Anarchists | People who opposed any form of government |
Quota System | Established the maximum number of people who could enter the United States from each foreign country |
Fordney-McCumber Tariff | Raised tariffs on U.S. imports up to 60 percent |
Ohio Gang | The president's poker plying cronies |
Teapot Dome Scandal | Spectacular example of corruption |
Urban Sprawl | Cities expanding |
Installment Plan | enabled people to buy goods over an extended period |
Sacco and Vanzetti | Italian immigrants and anarchists |
Prohibition | the manufacture, ale, and transportation of alcohol was prohibited |
Speakeasies | hidden taverns and nightclubs that sold alcohol |
Bootleggers | Alcohol smugglers |
Fundamentalism | literal, or nonsymbolic, interpretation of the Bible |
Scopes Trial | A fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools |
Flapper | an emancipated young woman who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day |
Double Standard | A set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women |
Harlem Renaissance | a literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture |