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APUSH Chapter 32
APUSH 2014/2015
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A. Mitchell Palmer | led the "red scare"; rounded up questionable immigrants |
| Al Capone | led gang warfare in Chicago; tried and convicted of tax evasion |
| John Dewey | wrote "Learning by Doing" and "Education for Life" |
| John T. Scopes | indicted in Tennessee in 1925 for teaching evolution |
| William Jennings Bryan | prosecuted John T. Scopes in 1925 |
| Clarence Darrow | defended John T. Scopes in 1925 |
| Andrew Mellon | his tax policies brought economic prosperity in the post-WWI economy |
| Bruce Barton | founded the advertising industry |
| Henry Ford | a mechanical genius who created the Model T |
| Frederick W. Taylor | a 1920's engineer who sought to eliminate wasted motion in the manufacturing of automobiles |
| Charles Lindbergh | in 1927 he became the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean |
| Margaret Sanger | led the movement for birth control |
| Sigmund Freud | said that sexual repression was responsible for nervous and emotional ills |
| H.L. Mencken | wrote "American Mercury" |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | wrote "This Side of Paradise" and "The Great Gatsby" |
| Ernest Hemingway | wrote "The Sun Also Rises" |
| Sinclair Lewis | wrote "Main Street" and "Babbitt" |
| William Faulkner | wrote "The Sound and the Fury" and "As I Lay Dying" |
| nativism | a policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones |
| buying on margin | way of buying stocks usually only used by poor or middle-class people; they would pay for the part of the stock and pay for the rest using borrowed money |
| red scare | 1919-1920; a nationwide crusade against those whose Americanism was suspect |
| Sacco and Vanzetti Case | reflected antiredism and antiforeignism; they were convicted in the 1921 murder of 2 Massachusetts men |
| Ku Klux Klan | grew in the early 1920's; anti-foreign and anti-catholic; pro-white and pro-protestant |
| Emergency Quota Act | restricted European immigrants to a yearly quota |
| Immigration Quota Act | cut the quotas of the Emergency Quota Act from 3% to 2%; banned Japanese and exempted Canadians and Latin Americans |
| Volstead Act | implemented the 18th Amendment; established illegal alcohol at above 0.5% |
| Fundamentalism | feared that Darwinism evolution was destroying American religious faith and contributing to a moral breakdown |
| Modernists | believed in God but also were able to accept science, particularly evolution |
| "flappers" | 1920's women who were known for their revealing clothing and dance styles; exemplified the new sexually frank generation |
| Florida Land Boom | Florida's first real estate bubble which burst in 1925 and left behind new cities and failed developments |