Rachel Berlin Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Nativism | Prejudice against foreign-born people. |
Isolationism | A policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs. |
Communism | An economic and political system based on a single-party government ruled by a dictatorship . |
Anarchists | People who oppose any form of government. |
Sacco and Vanzetti | Both were Italian immigrants and anarchists; both had evaded the draft during World War I. |
Quota system | Established the maximum number of people who could enter the United States from each foreign country. |
John L. Lewis | New leader of the United Mine Workers. Called his labor unions out on strike. |
Warren G. Harding | described as a good-natured man who "looked like a president ought to look" he assumed presidency in 1921. |
Charles Evans Hughes | Urged that no more warships be built for ten years. He suggested that the five major naval powers (U.S. GB Japan France Italy) scrap many of their largest warships. |
Fordney-McCumber Tariff | raised taxes on U.S. imports to 60 percent- the highest level ever. the tax protected u.s. businesses- from foreign competition. |
Ohio Gang | the presidents poker-playing cronies. |
Teapot Dome scandal | the government had set aside oil-rich public lands for use by the u.s. navy. |
Albert B. Fall | managed to get the oil reserves transferred from the navy to the interior department. |
Calvin Coolidge | fit into the pro-business spirit of the 1920s very well. |
Urban sprawl | cities spread in all directions. |
Installment Plan | enabled people to buy goods over an extended period. |
Prohibition | manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic drinks were legally prohibited. |
Speakeasy | to obtain liquor illegally, drinkers went underground to hidden saloons and nightclubs known as speakeasies. |
Bootlegger | smuggled alcohol in from other countries. |
Fundamentalism | the protestant movement grounded in literal or non symbolic interpretation of the bible |
Clarence Darrow | the most famous trail lawyer of the day. Defended scopes. |
Scopes trail | fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in the american society. |
flapper | an emancipated young women who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day. |
double standard | a set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women. |
Charles A Lindbergh | made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. |
George Gershwin | Merged traditional elements with american jazz. |
Georgia O'Keeffe | produced intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of New York. |
Sinclair Lewis | the first american to win the noble prize in literature. |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | coined the term "Jazz age" to describe the 1920s |
Edna St. Vincent Millay | wrote poems celebrating youth and a life of independence and freedom from traditional constraints. |
Ernest Hemingway | wounded in world war I became the best known expatriate author. |
Zora Neale Hurston | was in a traveling theater company and attended Howard University. |
James Weldon Johnson | poet, lawyer, and NAACP executive secretary. |
Marcus Garvey | an immigrant from Jamaica believed that African Americans should build a separate society. |
Harlem Renaissance | a literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture. |
Claude McKay Langston | urged African Americans to resist prejudice and discrimination. |
Paul Robeson | son of a former slave, became a major dramatic actor. |
Louis Armstrong | a young trumpet player, his talent rocketed him to stardom in the jazz world. |
Duke Ellington | a jazz pianist and composer, led his ten-piece orchestra at the cotton club. |
Bessie Smith | a female blues singer, was perhaps the outstanding vocalists of the decade. |
Langston Hughes | the movements best known poet. |
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