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Exam 2
chapter 21
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| open shop | Business policy of not requiring union membership as a condition of employment; such a policy, where legal, has the effect of weakening unions and diminishing workers' rights. |
| Return to Normalcy | Campaign promise of Republican presidential candidate Warren G. Harding in 1920, meant to contrast with Woodrow Wilson's progressivism and internationalism. |
| Prohibition | the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment |
| Scopes trail 1925 | Highly publicized trial of a high-school teacher in Tennessee for violating a state law that prohibited the teaching of evolution; the trial was seen as the climax of the fundamentalist war on Darwinism. |
| Sacco and Vanzetti case 1921 | Trial of 2 Italian immigrants that occurred at the height of Italian immigration. despite a lack of clear evidence, the 2 defendants both self-professed anarchists were convicted of murder & were executed. |
| Immigration act 1924 | Federal legislation intended favor northern & western European immigrants over from south & east Europe by restricting the # of imgrnts from European country to 2% of the total number of imgrnts p/y, with overall limit of slightly 150,000 new arrivals p/y |
| Nativism | Reactionary conservative movement characterized by heightened nationalism, anti-immigrant sentiment, and laws setting stricter regulations on immigration. |
| Modernism | An early twentieth-century cultural movement that rejected traditional notions of reality and adopted radical new forms of artistic expression. |
| NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) | Organization founded in 1910 by Black activists and White progressives that promoted education as a means of combating social problems and focused on legal action to secure the civil rights supposedly guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments |
| Harlem Renaissance | The nation's first self-conscious Black literary and artistic movement; centered in New York City's Harlem district, which had a largely Black population in the wake of the Great Migration from the South. |
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