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chapter 18 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| contected million if americans to the same news and en for the first time creating a shared natational calture.Spead morden ideas, fuled consumerism,intensifed tentions bewtween tardtional and morden vaules | mass media |
| car maker, founded on of the major brands today and developed a simple and affordable vehicle called modal T. | Henry Ford |
| proses of creating something step by step as it moves passed works with each worker having a different job | assembly line |
| extra money paid to works as compensation and motivation | welfare capitalism |
| president in 1920 on the campaign of a “return to normalcy” administration was plagued by scandals. | Harding |
| Exposed corruption in hoardings administration. Fall leased federal oil reserves to private oil companies for $400,000 | Teapot Dome Scandal |
| Harding VP that took over after he died and used modern public relations techniques to reach the masses | Coolidge |
| Capped immigration from Europe, gave preference to western europeans and effectively blocked asian immigration entirely | National Origins act |
| two italian immigrants were accused of murdering to people in a robbery. The immigrants were defended by the ACLU, the trail was built on fear and prejudice . The were found guilty | Sacco-Vanzetti case |
| Lawyer who defend the teaching of evolution at the scopes trial | Clarence Darrow |
| Scopes was arrested for teaching about evolution, lawyer Clarence Darrow defend scopes and Bryan opposed the teaching of evolution. Scopes was found guilty and had to pay a fine | Scopes trial |
| Mainly a protestant movement, every word in the bible is the literal truth. | Fundamentalism |
| Proposed that mental illness and human behavior was caused by the unconscious mind, clanging traditional ideas. | Sigmund Freud |
| Said that space, time and mass were all relative rather then absolute. contributed to a broder cultural shift. | Albert Einstein |
| gangster who ran illegal business like saloons and gaming houses in Chicago. | Al capone |
| Secret places that sold illegal alcohol | speakeasies |
| people or criminal networks that illegally produce, transported, or sold alcohol. | Bootleggers |
| an inaccurate theory that claims human populations can be improved through selective reproduction | Eugenics |
| Case where an immigrant form india was dined citizenship under the immigration act of 1917 after fighting for the u.s. in ww1 | U.S. v Singh Thind |
| Charles shank | |
| Red scare | |
| Was arrested and served 10 years in prison for handing out flyers to encourage citizens to resist the military draft. | |
| The period of time after the war where the government targeted suspected communist anarchists and radicals | |
| When the police would break into the homes and offices of suspected radicals to aresst them and or deport them | Palmer Raids |
| Head of the division in the justice department that hunted for radicals | Hoover |
| Establish the division in the justice department to hunt for radicals | Palmer |
| The excused that was used by congress for violating the 1st amendment | “clear and present danger” |
| A communist party leader was arrested for making a speech that some people interpreted as encouraging violence against the government | Whitney v california |
| Justice that argued that the flyers made by shank posed a “clear and present danger” | Holmes |
| Wired to protect the freedoms of all americans | American civil liberties union |
| World to expose and counter the violence of extremism groups such as the ku klux klan | Ant-Defamation league |