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Roaring Twenties
Vocabulary words and Key Terms - WHS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Isolationism | a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries. |
| Nativism | the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. |
| Anti-Semitism | hostility to or prejudice against Jews. |
| Recession | In economics, a recession is a business cycle contraction when there is a general decline in economic activity. Recessions generally occur when there is a widespread drop in spending |
| Corruption | Dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery. |
| Scandal | an action or event regarded as morally or legally wrong and causing general public outrage. |
| Prosperity | Prosperity is the state of flourishing, thriving, good fortune or successful social status. |
| Ku Klux Klan | The Ku Klux Klan (Or known as the KKK) was a white supremacy hate group which actively targeted African Americans |
| Red Scare | A "Red Scare" is the promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism or anarchism by a society or state. |
| Mitchell Palmer | Mitchell Palmer, was United States Attorney General from 1919 to 1921. He is best known for overseeing the Palmer Raids during the Red Scare of 1919–20. |
| J Edgar Hoover | John Edgar Hoover was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States and an American law enforcement administrator. |
| Palmer Raids | The Palmer Raids were a series of raids conducted in November 1919 and January 1920 during the First Red Scare by the United States in order to capture and arrest suspected leftisis |
| The Sacco Vanzetti Case | |
| Immigration Acts of 1921, 1924, and 1929 | |
| "Return to Normalcy" | |
| Tea Pot Dome Scandal | |
| Warren Hardin | |
| Calvin Coolidge | |
| Herbert Hoover | |
| "Rugged Individualism" | |
| Henry Ford and Model T | |
| Assembly Line production | |
| "Buying on Credit" | |
| Economic Speculation | |
| Uneven prosperity | |
| Traditional Values | |
| Prohibition | |
| 18th Amendment | |
| 21st Amendment | |
| Speakeasies | |
| Scopes Monkey Trial | |
| Clarence Darrow | |
| William Jennings Bryan (His role in the Scopes Monkey Trial) | |
| Charles Davenport & Eugenics | |
| Social Dawinism | |
| Emergence of New Values | |
| 19th Amendment | |
| Women/Flappers | |
| Tin Pan Alley | |
| F Scott Fitzgerald | |
| Sinclair Lewis | |
| Charles Lindbergh | |
| Great Migration | |
| Harlem Renaissance | |
| Langston Hughes | |
| Alaine Loke | |
| Zora Neale Huston | |
| Marcus Garvey | |
| Back To Africa Movement |
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