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Chapter 12 & 13 voca
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Nativism | Prejudice against foreign-born people, swept the nation. |
| 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 |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | Were arrested and charged with the robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guard in South Braintree, Massachusetts. |
| quota system | System established the maximum number of people who would enter the United States from each foreign country. |
| John L. Lewis | New leader of the United Mine Workers of America. |
| Warren G. Harding | Was described as a good-natured man who "looked like a president ought to look." |
| Charles Evans Hughes | Urged that no more warships be build for 10 years. |
| Fordney- McCumber Tariff | Raised taxes on U.S. imports to 60% - the highest level ever. |
| Ohio Gang | The president's poker playing cronies, who would soon cause a great deal of embarrassment. |
| teapot dome scandal | The mots spectacular example of corruption. |
| Albert B. Fall | A close friend of various oil executives, managed to get the oil reserves transferred from mthe naby to the Interior Department. |
| Calvin Coolidge | The new president, fit into the pro-business spirit of the 1920's very well. |
| Urban Sprawl | Allowed workers to live miles from their jobs. |
| Installment plan | Enables people to my goods over an extended period, without having to put down much money at the time of purchase. |
| Prohibition | time in which the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages were legally prohibited. |
| Speakeasy | To obtain liquor illegally, drinkers went underground to hidden saloons and nightclubs. |
| Bootlegger | People who smuggled it in from the Canada, Cuba and West Indies. |
| Fundamentalism | Skeptical of some scientific discoveries and theories; they argued that all important knowledge could be found in the Bible. |
| Clarence Darrow | The most famous trial 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 - required women to observe stricter standards of behavior than men did. |
| Charles A. Lindbergh | Made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. |
| George Gershwin | Merged 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 Price in literature, was among the era's most outspoken critics. |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Who coined the term "Jazz Age" to describe the 1920s. |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | Wrote poems celebrating youth and a life of independence and freedom from traditional constraints. |
| Ernest Hemingway | Wounded in World War I, became the best-known expatriate author. |
| Zora Neale Hurston | A writer. |
| James Weldon Johnson | Poet, Lawyer and NAACP executive secretary - the organization fought for legislation to protect African-American rights. |
| Marcus Garvey | An immigrant from Jamaica, believed that 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, was a major figure whose militant verses urges African Americans to resist prejudice and discrimination. |
| Langston Hughes | was the movements best-known poet. |
| Paul Robeson | 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-place orchestra at the Cotton Club. |
| Bessie Smith | a female blues singer, was perhaps the outstanding vocalist of the decade. |
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