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Chapter 24 vocab
Vocabulary for the roaring twenties in US History.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Italian immigrants who were accused and convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in Massachusetts | Sacco and Vanzetti |
| Warren Harding’s campaign promise in the election of 1920 | return to "normalcy" |
| caused an economic boom by increasing other industries such as steel, rubber, oil, and gasoline | automobile industry |
| the country's new pastime | radio |
| nickname for the small steel industries | "Little Steel" |
| founded on September 16, 1908, in Flint, Michigan, as a holding company for Buick, then controlled by William C. Durant | General Motors |
| organizations founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry | trade associations |
| the practice of businesses providing welfare-like services to employees | welfare capitalism |
| a trade union which is located within and run by a company or by the national government and is not affiliated with an independent trade union | company unions |
| a woman's job | "pink collar" job |
| a prominent twentieth-century African-American civil rights leader and the founder of both the March on Washington Movement and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters | A. Phillip Randolph |
| Japanese language term used to specify the Japanese people first to immigrate | issei |
| Japanese language term used to specify the children born to Japanese people in the new country | nisei |
| term that most U.S. employers in the 1920s used to describe their policy of refusing to negotiate with unions | "American Plan" |
| a legal concept used in codecision procedure disabling one European institution from making decision without obtaining assent of the other institution engaged in the procedure | parity |
| presents Jesus as "the founder of modern business," in an effort to make the Christian story accessible to businessmen of the time | The Man Nobody Knows |
| sound films incorporating synchronized dialogue | "talkies" |
| measures added to the film industry to "clean it up" | movie "standards" |
| an American clergyman and an outspoken opponent of racism and injustice | Henry Emerson Fosdick |
| the ideal of a love-based marriage that was developing at the time | "companionate marriage" |
| an American birth control activist and the founder of the American Birth Control League | Margaret Sanger |
| a "new breed" of young women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior | the "flapper" |
| U.S. Act of Congress providing federal funding for maternity and child care | Sheppard-Towner Act |
| transitional stage of physical and mental human development that occurs between childhood and adulthood | adolescence |
| American aviator, author, inventor and explorer | Charles Lindbergh |
| term used to characterize a general motif of disillusionment of American literary notables who lived in Europe, most notably Paris, after the First World War | "Lost Generation" |
| American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been very influential to education and social reform | John Dewey |
| one of the most influential American historians of the first half of the 20th century | Charles Beard |
| the flowering of African American intellectual life during the 1920s and 1930s | Harlem Renaissance |
| one of the earliest innovators of the new literary art form jazz poetry best-known for their work during the Harlem Renaissance | Langston Hughes |
| group of poets and literary scholars who came together at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee around 1920 | the Fugitigves (later, the Agrarians) |
| the period from 1919-1933, during which the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol for consumption were banned nationally as mandated in the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution | Prohibition |
| transnational grouping of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals for the purpose of engaging in illegal activity, most commonly for the purpose of generating a monetary profit | organized crime |
| an American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging of liquor and other illegal activities during the Prohibition Era of the 1920s and 1930s | Al Capone |
| opponents of prohibition | "wets" |
| limited the number of immigrants from any country to 3% of those already in the US from that country as per the 1910 census | 1921 immigration laws |
| federal law that limited the number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890, according to the Census of 1890 except for Asian immigrants | National Origins Act of 1924 |
| a formal fraternal organization with a national and state structure whose membership fell from 4-5 million men to about 30,000 | the new Ku Klux Klan |
| impressionism was a precursor for them: breaking with the idea of national schools, artists and writers adopted ideas of international movements | modernists |
| theological conservatives rallying around the Five Fundamentals | fundamentalists |
| proved a critical turning point in the American creation-evolution controversy | Scopes Money Trial |
| the first presidential election in which all American Indians were citizens and thus allowed to vote of which was won by incumbent President Calvin Coolidge | Election of 1924 |
| was the 29th President of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death from a heart attack in 1923 | Warren G. Harding |
| a group of politicians and industry leaders who came to be associated with Warren G. Harding that was responsible for the Teapot Dome scandal | Ohio Gang |
| an unprecedented bribery scandal and investigation during the White House administration of United States President Warren G. Harding | Teapot Dome Scandal |
| elected as the 29th Vice President in 1920 and succeeded to the Presidency upon the sudden death of Warren G. Harding in 1923 | Calvin Coolidge |
| an American banker, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector and Secretary of the Treasury from March 4, 1921 until February 12, 1932 | Andrew Mellon |
| gives priority to freedom in its scale of values, but it contends that such freedom can only be pursued effectively if individuals join with their fellows | associationalism |
| easily won the Republican nomination, despite having no previous elected office experience, in the presidential election of 1928 | Herbert Hoover |
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