ALHSGE VIB Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Central Powers | Germany, Austria-Hungry, Ottoman Empire |
Allied Powers | France, Britain, U.S., Russia, and Italy |
Woodrow Wilson | President during WWI and supported League of Nations |
Great Migration | The large-scale movement of hundreds of thousands of Southern blacks to cities in the North. |
Republicans | Political party that rejected the League of Nations. |
Nativism | Prejudice against foreign born people. |
Sacco and Vanzetti | Trial in which two immigrants were given an unfair trial due to their ethnic background and were eventually put to death. |
Red Scare | An intense fear of communism and other extreme ideas that gripped the U.S. during the 1920s. |
Red Summer | Race riots erupted in about 25 cities nationwide in 1919 |
Ku Klux Klan | This organization had anti-immigrant, anti-communism feelings to harass any group unlike themselves. |
Quota System | A number limit set up by laws to limit annual immigration. |
Asian immigration | this type of immigration was banned altogether in the 1920s |
Cars, planes, timed appliances | Several technological innovaiions in the 1920s. |
Harlem Renaissance | African American literary awakening of the 1920s. |
Zona Meale Hurston | African American author of "Their Eyes were Watching God." |
Claude Mckay, Countee Cufien, Langston Huqhes | Three leading poets/writers of the Harlem Renaissance. |
Jazz | Type of music that grew out of African American music in the south, especially ragtime and blues. |
Jazz Age | The 1920s |
Flapper | An emancipated young woman who embraced the new-fashions and urban attitudes of the time. |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | Coined the term "Jazz Age" and wrote The Great Gatsby |
Marcus Garvey | Believed that African Americans should build a separate society. |
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