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an economic system in which people had companies own the means of production.
Capitalism
A dynamic leader who started the “Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters”
A.Phillip Randolph
an arrangement setting the number of immigrants.
Quota System
in August 1928, the United States joined 14 other nations. This was called the Kellogg - Briand Pact. The agreement called for outlawing war. Within the next few years 48 other nations joined. The pact, however, lacked any way to force countries to live up to their agreement.
Kellogg- Briand Pact
had defended many radicals and labor union members, represented Scopes. His defense made it appear that Bryan wanted to force his religious beliefs on the entire nation.
Clarence Darrow
Someone that believes there should be no government
Anarchist
Purchasing products by making small payments over a period of time.
Installment Buying
a carefree women of the 1920’s
Flapper
Electricity - How it changed American Households
It changed American households because it allowed chores that usually took a long time to take less time. It also made chores easier and have to do less work. For example, the washing machine. People now had to just put their clothes in a machine and it washed the clothes for them. Another thing electricity did was make light. Instead of sitting in a darkroom with only a candle, people could now light up an entire room. Vacuum made cleaning the house easier as it allowed moms to take less time working on cleaning the house.
Harding and Coolidge
Harding ran in the 1920 campaign his running mate was Calvin Coolidge. He was a Republican. In 1927 President Coolidge was expected to run for another term. Harding’s team won by a landslide. He named several talented people for his cabinet.
to expel from a country
Deport
A scandal where a man named Albert Fall secretly sold government oil companies to other companies for $400,000 and became the first cabinet to go to prison
“Teapot Dome”
the total value of all goods and services produced by a nation
Gross National Product
Democratic candidate for president in 1896, 1900, and 1908 and a strong opponent of evolution, led the prosecution
William Jennings Byran
Whites and African Americans living side-by-side.
Integration
a belief that the government should have as little involvement in private life as possible.
Laissez- Faire
called people who chose to live in a another country people from the “Lost Generation”
Gertrude Stein
Beyond Harlem, some writers were questioning American ideals in the aftermath of World War I. Some became expatriates - people who choose to live in another country.
Lost Generation
The case of ________ and _____________ highlighted the fears and suspicions of this time. The two men were Italian immigrants and admitted anarchists. They were also accused of killing two men during a robbery. Though they claimed innocence, Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted of this crime in July 1921 in Massachusetts. They were then sentenced to death.
Sacco and Vanzetti
scientific theory that humans and other species developed over long periods of time.
Evolution
a powerful leader with a magnetic personality, was born to a poor family in Jamaica. He did not support integration. Instead he offered a message of racial pride. Supported a “back-to-Africa" movement, urging African Americans to establish their own country in Africa. Founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association in 1914 to promote African American achievement and pride.
Marcus Garvey
In February 1922, the three nations, along with France and Italy, signed the _________ to limit the size of the nations' navies. The treaty marked the first time in modern history that world powers agreed to disarm.
Five Power Treaty