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Stufflet APUSH U7P2
Unit 7--Part 2-- APUSH
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| alternative name for assembly line production | Fordism |
| women who challenged traditional gender roles in the 1920s by being more sexually promiscuous | flappers |
| feminist who promoted birth control | Margaret Sanger |
| musical, literary, artistic “rebirth” amongst African-Americans in 1920s | Harlem Renaissance |
| African-American poet of the Harlem Renaissance | Langston Hughes |
| African-American writer of the Harlem Renaissance | Zora Neale Hurston |
| outlawed manufacture, sale, distribution of alcohol | 18th Amendment |
| conservative religious movement that took a literal view of the Bible; rural | fundamentalism |
| by the 1920s, this group expanded their hatred to include new immigrants and left-wing people | Ku Klux Klan |
| law that limited immigration to 2% of # of foreigners from foreign nation counted in census of 1890 | Johnson-Reed Act |
| Italian immigrants whose execution was seen by some as example of nativism | Sacco and Vanzetti |
| time period in which alcohol was illegal in the US (1919-1933) | Prohibition |
| aviator who flew non-stop from New York to Paris in 1927 | Charles Lindbergh |
| trial that represented clash between fundamentalists and liberals in 1920s; issue was evolution | Scopes Trial |
| term for those whose literature expressed disillusionment with both the "old" culture and "new" culture of the 1920s | “Lost Generation” |
| tariff that raised taxes on imported goods that deepened the Depression in 1930 | Hawley-Smoot Tariff |
| group of 20,000 WWI vets who marched on Washington to get their promised $1,000 war bonus early in 1932 | Bonus Army |
| insured deposits up to $5000 per account | FDIC |
| Put 2 million young men to work in various beautification projects (improving environment) | CCC |
| provided electricity for much of Appalachia | TVA |
| pension program for elderly | Social Security |
| Louisiana politician who called for more radical re-distribution of American wealth by guaranteeing each family a $5,000 estate and "sharing the wealth" | Huey Long |
| sought to give every senior citizen $200 per month; forebearer of Social Security | Francis Townshend |
| major union of the 1930s | CIO |
| idea that the government should step in to provide some “safety nets” for the poor or in times of economic crisis | welfare state |
| said that "obscene" material could not be sent through mail; birth control information was considered obscene | Comstock Act |
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