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Chapter 12-13
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| nativism | favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign-born people |
| isolationism | opposition to political and economic entanglements with other countries |
| communism | an economic and political system based on one-part government and state ownership of property |
| anarchists | a person who opposes all forms of government |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | arrested and charged with the robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his gaurds |
| quota system | a system that sets limits on how many immigrants for various countries a nation will admit each year |
| John L. Lewis | leader of the United Mine Workers of America |
| Warren G. Harding | good-natured man who looked like a president ought to look like |
| Charles Evens Hughes | urged that no more war ships be built for 10 years |
| Fordney McCumber Tariff | a set of regulations, enacted by Congress in 1922, that raised taxes on imports to record levels in order to protect American businesses against foreign competition |
| Ohio gang | the president's poker-playing cronies, who would soon cause a great deal of depression |
| Teapot Dome scandal | Secretary of the 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 the Interior, a close friend of various oil executives, managed to get the oil reserves transferred from the navy to the Interior Department |
| Calvin Coolidge | the new president, fit into the pro-business spirit of the 1920s very well. |
| urban sprawl | the unplanned and 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 the time of purchase |
| prohibition | the period from 1920-1933 during which the Eighteenth Amendment forbidding the manufacture and sale of alcohol was force in the US |
| speakeasy | a place where alcoholic drinks were sold and consumed illegally during Prohibiton |
| bootlegger | a person who smuggled alcoholic beverages into the United States during Prohibition |
| fundamentalism | a Protestant religious movement grounded in the belief that all the stories and details in the Bible are literally true |
| Clarence Darrow | most famous trial lawyer of the day, to defend Scopes |
| Scopes trial | a sensational 1925 court case in which the biology teacher John T. Scopes was tried for challenging a Tennessee law that outlawed the teaching of evolution. |
| Flapper | one of the free-thinking young women who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the 1920s |
| double standard | a set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women |
| Charles A. Lindbergh | small town pilot, who made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. |
| George Gershwin | gained fame for merging traditional elements with american jazz, thus creating a new sound that was identifiably American |
| Georgia O'Keeffe | produced intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of new york |
| Sinclair Lewis | the first american to win a Nobel Prize in literature, was among the Ara's most outrageous critics |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | coined the term "jazz Age" to describe the 1920s |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | wrote poems celebrating the youth and a life of independence and freedom from traditional constraints |
| Emest Hemingway | became best known expatriate author |
| Zora Neale Hurston | made her yearn for a wider world |
| James Weldon Johnson | poet, lawyer, and NAACP executive secretary |
| Marcus Garvey | immigrant from Jamaica, believed that African Americans should build a separate society |
| Harlem Renaissance | a favoring of African-American artistic creativity during the 1920s, centered in the Harlem community of NYC |
| Claude McKay | novelist, poet, and Jamaican immigrant, was a major figure whose militant verses urged African Americans to resist prejudice and discrimination |
| Langston Hughes | was the movement's best-known poet |
| Paul Pobeson | the son of a one-time slave, became a major dramatic actor |
| Louis Armstrong | joined Oliver's group, which became known as the Creole Jazz Band. |
| Duke Ellington | a jazz pianist and composer, led his ten-piece orchestra at the cotton club |
| Bessie Smith | a female blues singer, was perhaps the most outstanding vocalist of the decade |
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