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Chapter 12&13 Vocab.
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 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. |