Vocab 1
Secretary of state under Harding
Who was Charles Evans Hughes?
A system that established the maximum number of people who could enter the United States from each country
What is the Quota System?
Harding died in what year
When was 1923
A fear of things or people seen as foreign
What is Xenophobia?
A person who hid alcohol?
What is a bootlegger
The outward expansion of cities
What is Urban Sprawl
The 30th president of the United States; succeeded to presidency on death of Harding; elected in 1924
Who was Calvin Coolidge?
The act of buying as a form of borrowing
What is an installment plan?
What was the country wide fear of communism referred to as?
What was the Red Scare?
A famous lawyer
Who was Clearance Darrow?
Scandal surrounding Albert Fall
What was the Teapot Dome Scandal
Suspicion of foreign-born people
What is Nativism?
Two economic problems hidden by the 1920s business boom
What is not as healthy and consumer debt levels rose
2 individuals who were executed for crimes they did no commit?
Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?
An organization that promised to defend the teachers in tennessee
What is the ACLU
An economic system that supports government control over property to create equality
What is Communism?
Harding’s friends and advisors
Who was the Ohio Gang
How did the Fordney-McCumber Tariff affect other countries?
What is protection from foreign business?
Why did congress create the Quota System?
To limit to amount of immigrants coming into the country.
What is the illegalization of alcohol in the United States?
What was the prohibition?
Religious movement based on the belief that everything written in the Bible is literally true
What is Fundamentalism?
High tax on imports adopted in 1922
What is the Fordney-McCumber Tarif
What are 3 tremendous impacts that cars had on the country?
What is paved roads, urban sprawl, and new businesses
Why did union membership decline from 5 million to 2.5 million in the 20's
What is immigrants could work for cheap labor fees
Who tended to be supporters of prohibition at this time
Who were religious protestants?