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Lessons 26-29
The Roaring 20s
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| American Civil Liberties Union | an organization founded in 1920 to defend Americans' rights and freedoms as given in the Constitution |
| Anti-Defamation League | an organization founded in 1913 to halt the defamation, or attack on a person's or group's reputation or character, of the Jewish people and to ensure the fair treatment of all Americans |
| civil liberties | a basic right guaranteed to individual citizens by law |
| communism | an economic or political system in which the state or the community owns all property and the means of production, and all citizens share the wealth |
| Palmer Raids | a series of unauthorized raids on homes, businesses, and meeting places of suspected subversives that resulted in the arrest of 6,000 radicals, often without any evidence against them |
| radicalism | a point of view favoring extreme change, especially in social or economic structure |
| Red Scare | a campaign launched by U.S. attorney general Mitchell Palmer to arrest communists and other radicals who promoted the overthrow of the U.S. government |
| disarmament | the process of reducing the number of weapons in a nation's arsenal or the size of its armed forces |
| Dow Jones Industrial Average | a commonly used daily measure of stock prices |
| Florida Land Boom | a 1920s get-rich-quick scheme in which real estate developers sold many Florida coast lots, some undesirable, to speculators in other parts of the country, causing prices to raise rapidly |
| isolationism | a government policy of not taking part in economic and political alliances or relations with other countries |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | an agreement made among most nations of the world in 1928 to try to settle international disputes by peaceful means rather than war |
| normalcy | the concept of life as it was before World War I, when the nation could focus on its own domestic prosperity. |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | a political scandal in which U.S. secretary of the interior Albert Fall leased national oil reserves in Elk Hills, California, and Teapot Dome, Wyoming, to two companies that had bribed him |
| equal rights amendment | a proposed but unratified Constitutional amendment first introduced in 1923 by Alice Paul for the purpose of guaranteeing equal rights for all Americans regardless of gender |
| Harlem Renaissance | an era of heightened creativity among African American writers, artists, and musicians who gathered in Harlem during the 1920s |
| Jazz Age | the era during the 1920s in which jazz became increasingly popular in the United States |
| Roaring Twenties | a nickname given to the 1920s because of the decade's prosperity, technological advances, and cultural boom |
| Volstead Act | a law passed by Congress in 1919 to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment, which prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages |
| traditionalist | a person who has deep respect for long-held cultural and religious values |
| speakeasies | a secret club that sold alcohol during the era of prohibition |
| Scopes trial | a criminal trial, held in Dayton, Ohio, in 1925, that tested the constitutionality of a Tennessee law that banned the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution in schools |
| creationism | the belief that God created the universe |
| eugenics | the idea that the human species should be improved by permitting only people with characteristics judged desirable to reproduce |
| modernist | a person who embraces new ideas, styles, and social trends |
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