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Ch 12-13 Vocab
Vocab for chapter 12-13 in History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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-par government ruled by a dictatorship. (belief that government should have full control) |
| Anarchists | people who opposed any form of government |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | Arrested & charged with the robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guard in south Braintree, Massachusetts |
| Quota system | Established the maximum # of people who could enter the U.S. from each foreign country |
| John L. Lewis | New leader of United Mine Workers in 1919, called his union's members out on strike |
| Warren G. Harding | A good-natured man who "looked like a president ought to look." (became president in 1921) |
| Charles Evans Hughes | Secretary of state (1921) urged that no more warships be built for 10 years. |
| Fordney-McCumber Tariff | Raised taxes on U.S. imports to %60 (highest level ever) |
| Ohio Gang | included in the cabinet, the president's poker playing cronies who would cause a great deal of embarrassment |
| Teapot dome scandal | The most spectacular example of corruption |
| Albert B. Fall | a close friend of various oil executives, he managed to get the oil reseerves transferred from the navy to the Interior Department and secretly release the land to 2 private oil companies |
| Calvin Coolidge | America's 30th president |
| urban sprawl | The unplanned and uncontrolled spreading of cities into surrounding regions |
| Installment Plan | Enabled people to buy goods over an extended period, without having to put down much money at the time of purchase |
| Prohibition | an era in which the manufacture, sale, and transportation on alcoholic beverages were legally prohibited |
| Speak Easies | hidden bars and nightclubs that sold illegal alcoholic beverages |
| bootleggers | People who smuggled alcohol into the country |
| fundamentalism | A protestant religious movement grounded in the belief that all the stories and details in the bible are literal and true |
| Clarence Darrow | the most famous trial lawyer of the day hired by the ACLU 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 woman 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 | Fame was given to him when he 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 |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | 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 | became the best-known expatriate author |
| Zora Neale Hurston | Struggled to the top of African-American literary society |
| James Weldon Johnson | NAACP executive secretary, helped fight 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 major figure whose militant verses urged African Americans to resist prejudice and discrimination. |
| Langston Hughes | The movement's (Harlem Renaissance) best-known poet. |
| Paul Robeson | A major dramatic actor, Performed in Shakespeare's Othello |
| Louis Armstrong | Rocketed to stardom in the jazz world due to his talent |
| Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington | Jazz pianist and composer |
| Bessie Smith | A female blues singer, was perhaps the outstanding vocalist of the decade |
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