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APUSH People + Acts
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mitchell A. Palmer | Oversaw the investigations of the red scare, rounded up suspects of being communists “Fighting Quaker” |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | Killed for their background of being Italian, anarchist atheists, and draft dodgers Communists presented them as martyrs Highlighted the craziness of the Red Scare, executed in the electric chair |
| DW Griffith | Released The Birth of a Nation, fictionalizing the heroics of the original KKK |
| William Joseph Simmons | Made profits from other fraternal organizations and saw an opportunity to resurrect the KKK |
| Al Capone | “Scarface” made millions through 6 years of gang warfare w/ alcohol Dirty money through the prohibition era |
| Charles Darrow | The defendant in the Scopes Trial |
| Henry Ford | Automobile production through assembly lines provided efficiency and was perfected under Henry Ford, who created the Model T “Tin Lizzie” Automobile baron of the early 20th century Creator of the concept of the assembly line |
| Frederick Winslow Taylor | A well-known inventor and engineer who provided techniques for industrial efficiency |
| Wright Brothers | (bicycle repairmen) were airborne for 12 seconds at 120 feet in their plane in 1903 First people in flight |
| Charles A Lindbergh | The first person to fly in a plane over an ocean (Atlantic in 1927) |
| Guglielmo Marconi | Wireless telegraphy was invented by Guglielmo Marconi in the 1890’s - intended for long-range communication during WWI |
| Marcus Garvey | The Jamaican-born Garvey founded the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Garvey was convicted in 1927 for alleged mail fraud and was deported. A leader who advocated to consider a relocation to their cultural homeland |
| Ernest Hemingway | A lost generation writer, spent much of his life in France, Spain, and Cuba during WWI, notable works include A Farewell to Arms |
| Georgia O'Keefe | major female modernist artist; one of America's most important and successful artists, known for her paintings of New York skyscrapers—an essentially American symbol of modernity—as well as her equally radical depictions of flowers. |
| Sinclair Lewis | American novelist who satirized middle-class America in his 22 works, including Babbitt (1922) and Elmer Gantry (1927). He was the first American to receive (1930) a Nobel Prize for literature. |
| George Gershwin | one of the most well-known, revered, and prolific composers of the 20th century |
| Andrew Mellon | Secretary of Treasury under President Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, who instituted a Republican policy of reduced government spending, lower taxes to the wealthy, and higher tariffs |
| Duke Ellington | Composer, pianist, and band leader; the most influential figure in jazz. |
| Claude McKay | A poet who was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance movement and wrote the poem "If We Must Die" after the Chicago riot of 1919 - showed the struggles of ordinary African Americans |
| Langston Hughes | African American poet who had a major impact on the Harlem Renaissance. |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | wrote poems celebrating youth, a life of independence, and freedom from traditional constraints |
| Bessie Smith | African American blues singer who played an important role in the Harlem Renaissance. |
| Paul Robeson | African American actor and singer who promoted African American rights |
| Louis Armstrong | Leading African American jazz musician during the Harlem Renaissance; he was a talented trumpeter whose style influenced many later musicians. |
| James Weldon Johnson | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) leader, lawyer, and Harlem Renaissance writer |
| Flappers | Young women of the 1920s who behaved and dressed in a radical fashion |
| Emergency Quota Act | Established an immigration quota of 3% of people of their nationality who were in the USA in 1910 |
| Immigration Act of 1924 | Replaced the Emergency Quota Act Shifted from 3 to 2%, now based on the 1890 census, not the 1910 census Hurt Eastern Europeans, helped Western Europeans, disallowed any Japanese immigrants |
| 18th Amendment | Prohibition amendment Banned alcohol from 1920-33 |
| Volstead Act | Banned the transportation, creation, and importation of alcohol |
| Monkey Trial / Tennessee v John Thomas Scopes | Scopes taught evolution in his biology class and Fundamentalists took him to court. Defended by many well-known attorneys, lost the case and was fined $100. About natural selection |
| Butler Act | Outlawed the teaching of any doctrine that denied divine creation |
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