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ch 12&13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 opposed any form of government |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | arrested and charged with the robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guard |
| quota system | This system established the maximum number of people who could enter the US from each foreign country |
| John L. Lewis | The new leader of the United Mine Workers of America |
| Warren G Harding | good-natured man who "looked like a president ought to look". Ohio senator that became president in 1921 |
| Charles Evans Hughes | Secretary of State urged that no more warships be built fro ten years |
| Fordney-McCumber Tariff | raised taxes on US imports to 60 percent |
| Ohio gang | the presidents poker playing cronies |
| Teapot Dome scandal | The government had set aside oil-rich public lands at Teapot Dome |
| Albert B. Fall | Secretary of the interior |
| Calvin Coolidge | New president after Harding dies |
| urban sprawl | cities spread in all directions |
| Installment plant | enabled people to buy goods over an extended period, without having to put much money down at the time of purchase |
| Prohibition | sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages were legally prohibited |
| speakeasy | nightclubs where people spoke "easily" to avoid detection |
| bootlegger | smugglers practice of carrying liquor in the legs of boots |
| fundamentalism | literal, or non symbolic, interpretation of 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 |
| Charles A Lindbergh | made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic |
| George Gershwin | concert music composer, merged traditional elements with American Jazz |
| 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 era's most outspoken critics |
| 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 constraints |
| Ernest Hemingway | wounded in WWI, became the best-known expatriate author |
| Zora Neale Hurston | was a girl from Eatonville, Florida, in the early 1900s she loved to read adventure stories and myths |
| James Weldon Johnson | poet, lawyer,and NAACP executive secretary |
| 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 urged 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-piece orchestra at the Cotton Club |
| Bessie Smith | a female blues singer, was perhaps the outstanding vocalist of the decade |
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