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Chapter 12&13 Vocab.

TermDefinition
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 oppose any form of government.
Sacco and Vanzetti arrested and charged with robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guard in South Braintree, Massachusetts.
quota system Set up the maximum number of people who could enter the United States from each foreign country.
John L. Lewis Leader of the United Mine Workers of America, protesting low wages and long workdays, called a strike on November 1, 1919.
Warren G. Harding Ohio senator who assumed the presidency in 1921, public wanted what he called "normalcy."
Charles Evans Hughes Secretary of State at the time, urged that no more war ships should be built in the next 10 years.
Fordney-McCumber Tariff raised taxes on U.S. imports to 60%-the highest it's ever been.
Ohio gang the president's poker playing cronies, who later cause a great deal of embarrassment to the president.
Teapot Dome scandal an example of corruption at which oil reserves were transferred from the navy to the Interior Department.
Albert B. Fall Man behind the Teapot Dome scandal.
Calvin Coolidge new president and got into pro-business spirit of the 1920's.
urban sprawl spreading of cities in all directions.
installment plan enabled people to buy goods over an extended period.
prohibition a time at which the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages were legally prohibited.
speakeasy hidden saloons and nightclubs were alcohol could be obtained.
bootlegger people who smuggled alcohol into the U.S. to sell.
fundamentalism Believed all answers could be found in the Bible, because it was completely true.
Clarence Darrow most famous trail lawyer at the time, who defended Scopes in his case.
Scopes trial a fight of evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in American society.
flapper an emancipated young woman who embraced new fashions and urban attitudes of the day.
double standard a set pf principles that granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women.
Charles A. Lindbergh a pilot who made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic.
George Gershwin concert music composer who merged traditional elements with American Jazz.
Georgia O'Keeffe painter who portrayed intensely colored interpretations of New York.
Sinclair Lewis first American to win a Nobel Prize in literature.
F. Scott Fitzgerald author of The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise.
Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote poems celebrating the youth and a life of independence and freedom.
Ernest Hemingway wounded in WWI, became known as an author.
Zora Neale Hurston a woman who wrote stories during the Harlem Renaissance.
James Weldon Johnson poet, lawyer, NAACP executive secretary.
Marcus Garvey founder of UNIA when he decided that African Americans should form a separate society from the rest of the world.
Harlem Renaissance literary and artistic movement to celebrate African-American culture.
Claude McKay novelist, poet, and Jamaican immigrant.
Langston Hughes the movement's best known poet, and wrote poems about African-American hardships.
Paul Robeson became a major dramatic actor.
Louis Armstrong joined the Creole Jazz Band.
Duke Ellington jazz pianist and composer.
Bessie Smith a female blues singer.
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