History chapter 24 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Nellie Tayloe Ross and Miriam Ferguson | first women to serve as governors in the USA |
Flappers | women who challenged traditional ideas of womanhood by wearing makeup, short dresses and a bob |
Bessie Coleman | became the first African American women to have a pilite license |
Radicals | people who believe in an extreme change in government |
Red Scare | a fear of communists, or reds |
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer | bomb exploded outside his home |
Palmer Raids | government agents arrested thousands of suspected radicals, often with no evidence |
Anarchists | people opposed to organized government |
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanztti | charged with murder and robbery of a factory paymaster and his guard |
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) | founded in 1920, to defend people's civil rights |
The emergency Quota Act of 1921 | limited the total number of immigrants from western Europe |
The National Origins Act of 1924 | banned immigration from East Asia entirely and further reduced the number of immigrant allowed to enter the country |
18th Amendment | banded the sell, use, transportation, or production of alcoholic beverages |
Volstead Act | sets fines and punishments for disobeying prohibition |
Speakeasies | illegal bars |
Bootleggers | organized criminals that illegally sold alcohol or smuggled it from Canada or mexico |
Al Capone | gained control of the alcohol trade by murdering the competition nickname = scarface |
21st Amendment | ended prohibition |
Fundamentalism | characterized by the belief in a literal, word-for-word, interpretation of the bible |
Scopes Trial | John T. Scopes was put on trial for teaching evolution because it interfered with the bible |
Clarence Darrow | led ACLU defense team for Scopes |
William Jennings Bryan | assisted the prosecution |
Great Migration | African Americans moving north to get jobs |
Marcus Garvey | encouraged black people around the world to express pride in their culture |
United Latin American Citizens (LUCAC | worked to end unfair treatment such as segregation in schools and voting restrictions |
Indian Citizenship | granted citizenship to native americans |
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