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Gabby Miller
Chapter12&13Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Navitism | prejudice against foreign-born people |
| Isolation | a policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs |
| Communism | an economic and political system based on a single-party government ruled by dictatorship |
| Anarchists | people who oppose any form of government |
| Sacco & Vanzetti | were arrested and charged with the robbery and murder of a factory pay master and his guard in South Braintree, Massachusettes |
| Quota System | established the maximum number of people who could enter the U.S. in 1890 |
| John L. Lewis | leader of the United Mine Workers |
| Warren G. Harding | described as a good-natures man who "looked like a president ought to look" |
| Charles Evans Hughes | secretary of state in 1921, urged that no more warships be built for ten years and suggested that the five major naval powers (U.S., G. Britain, Japan, France, Italy) scrap many large warships |
| Fordney-McCumber Tariff | raised taxes on U.S. imports to 60 percent (highest level ever) |
| Ohio Gang | the president's poker-playing cronies, who would soon cause a great deal of embarrassment |
| 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 | a close friend of various oil executives, managed to get the oil reserves transferred from the navy to the Interior Dep. |
| Calvin Coolidge | fit into the pro-business spirit of the 1920's |
| Urban Sprawl | the unplanned and uncontrolled spreading of cities into surrounding regions |
| Installment Plan | enables people to buy goods over and extended period without having to put down much money at the time of purchase |
| Prohibition | an era in which the manufacture, sale, and, transportation of alcoholic beverages were legally prohibited |
| Speakeasy | when inside, one spoke quietly, or "easily," to avoid detection |
| Bootlegger | named for smuggler's practice of carrying liquor in the legs of boots, who smuggled it in from Canada, Cuba, and the West Indies |
| Fundamentalism | the Protestant movement grounded in a literal, or non-symbolic, interpretation of the Bible |
| Clarence Darrow | the most famous trail lawyer of the day, to defend Scopes |
| Scopes Trial | a fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in American society |
| Flapper | an emancipated young women 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 |
| Charles A. Lindbergh | made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic |
| George Gershwin | fame was given to this concert music composer when he merged traditional elements American jazz, thus creating 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 |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | coined the term "Jazz Age" to describe the 1920's |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | wrote poems celebrating youth and a life of independence and freedom from traditional conetraints |
| Ernest Hemingway | wounded in WW1, became the best known expatriate author, he criticized the glorification of the war in his novels "The Sun Also Rises" and "A Farewell to Arms" |
| Zora Neale Hurston | documented some of the African Americans that moved from the South to the North |
| James Weldon Johnson | poet, lawyer, and NAACP executive secretary |
| Marcus Garvey | an immigrant from Jamaica that believed African Americans should build a separate society |
| Harlem Renaissance | a literary and artistic movement celebrating African American culture |
| Claude McKay | a novelist, poet, and Jamaican immigrant who was a major figure whose militant verses urged African Americans to resist prejudice and discrimination |
| Langston Hughes | movements best known poet |
| Paul Robeson | the son of a one-time slave, became a major dramatic actor |
| Louis Armstrong | a young trumpet player who joined Oliver's group which then became known as the Creole Jazz Band |
| Duke Ellington | a jazz pianist and composer who led his ten-piece orchestra at the Cotton Club |
| Bessie Smith | a female blues singer |
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