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Chapter 12 History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Quota system | This established the maximum number of immigrants who were allowed into the United States from each foreign country. |
| KKK | Although its membership sharply increased as a result of the Red Scare and nativism, its power declined once its criminal activity and racial violence became exposed. |
| isolationism | This is a policy of abstaining from involvement in world affairs. |
| communism | This is an economic and political system based on a single-party government ruled by a dictator. |
| anarchists | Their radical opposition to any and all forms of government led many with similar beliefs to be harassed, arrested, and deported during the Red Scare. |
| A. Mitchell Palmer | As Attorney General, he sent government agents out on a series of illegal raids to hunt down suspected radicals. |
| Calvin Coolidge | As the governor of Massachusetts during the Boston police strike, he opposed the strikers and called out the National Guard to restore order. |
| John L. Lewis | As president of the United Mine Workers, he led the miners on a strike that eventually resulted in a significant wage increase. |
| Imperial Wizard | Leader of the KKK |
| Anarchist | People who oppose any form of government. |
| Quota System | Established the maximum number of people who could enter the U.S. from each foreign country. |
| KKK | This group believed in keeping blacks "in their place," destroying saloons, opposing unions, and driving Roman Catholics and Jews out of the country. |
| Isolationism | Policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs. |
| Nativism | Prejudice against foreign-born people. |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | A shoemaker and a fish peddler; Italian immigrants; anarchists. |
| J. Edgar Hoover | Mitchell Palmer's special assistant. |
| Bigot | A person who is intolerant of any creed, race, religion, or political belief that differs from his own. |
| Strikebreakers | Employees who agreed to work during a strike. |
| John L. Lewis | New leader of the United Mine Workers of America. |
| Communism | An economic and political system based on a single-party government ruled by a dictatorship. |
| Mitchell Palmer | U.S. Attorney General who started the "Red Scare." |
| True | New machinery=produced more food=drove down prices |
| Urban Sprawl | cities spread in all directions |
| status symbol | a possession believed to enhance the owners social standing |
| 1927 | pan american airways inaugurated the first transatlantic passenger flights in this year |
| installment plan | enabled people to buy goods over an extended period, without having to put down much money at the time of the purchase(credit cards) |
| 1918 | airplane industry began as a mail carrying service for the U.S. Post office; first flight was in this year. |
| True | The automobile becomes the backbone of the american economy in the 1920s |
| True | cooidge favored government policies that would keep taxes down and business profits up. |
| True | by the late 1920s, around 80% of all registered motor vehicles in the world were in the U.S. |
| True | The automobile liberated the isolated rural family |
| True | The Kellog-Briand Pact rejected war as an instrument of national policy. |
| False, Fordney-McCumber Tarrif | As a result of the Washington Naval Conference, Britain and France were not able to sell enough goods to pay off their war debts. |
| True | The Dawes Plan arranged for loans to be made to Germany so that it could pay war reparations. |
| False, Poker-Playing Cronies | The Ohio gang consisted of various enemies of President Warren G. Harding who took advantage of their political positions to gain wealth and influence. |
| False, Government | The Teapot Dome Scandal involved the secret leasing of oil rich lands owned by Albert Fall to private oil companies. |
| True | President Harding's secretary of state was Charles Evans Hughes, who later went on to become chief justice of the Supreme Court. |
| Fordney-McCumber Tarrif | Raised taxes on U.S. imports to 60% |
| Defaulted | failed to make payment |
| Secretary of treasury | Andrew Mellon |
| Charles Evans Hughes | Secretary of State |
| Reparations | Payments demanded from a defeated enemy |
| Secretary of Commmerce | Herbert Hoover |
| Thomas Miller | Head of the Office of Alien Property, was caught taking a bribe. |
| Ohio gang | President Harding's poker-playing cronies, who would soon cause a great deal of embarrassment. |
| Charles R. Forbes | Head of Veterans Bureau. He was caught illegally selling government and hospital supplies to private companies. |
| Secretary of the Interior | Albert Fall |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | The government had set aside oil-rich, public lands at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, and Elks Hills, California, for use by the U.S. Navy. |
| Dawes Plan | American investors loaned Germany 2.5 billion to pay back Britain and France with annual payments on a fixed scale. |
| Warren G. Harding | He took the presidency in 1921. |
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