Vocabulary
Define The Red Scare
What is the fear of communism
What is a quota?
A percentage
Who was Langston Hughes?
One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
What did Marcus Garvey want?
Emergency quota act of 1921
An Act to limit the immigration of migrants into the United States.
What was the Great Migration?
After WW1, almost 2 million Southern Blacks migrated to the North to escape segregation and racism and to obtain job opportunities in the North.
What was women's suffrage?
Women's right to vote
Who is W.E.D Du Bois
Director of publicity and research for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), founded in 1909.
What did the Volstead act include?
Wine and beer
National Origins Act (1924)
limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota.
What does NAACP stand for?
National Association For The Advancement of Color People
What are the 18th and 21st Amendment
18th Banned Alcohol
21st Allowed it
What happened during the election of 1920?
Warren G. Harding won a landslide victory, sweeping every state outside of the South and becoming the first Republican since the end of Reconstruction to win a former state of the Confederacy, Tennessee.
What were blue collar jobs?
Hands-on jobs
The Glass-Steagall Act of 1932
limited the activity of commercial banks in an effort to restore stability to the banking industry.
What are anarchists? (an-ar-cist)
Who are Bootleggers?
People who bought drinks from Canada
What was the purpose of Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute ?
It was industrial and agricultural training, since most freed slaves had experience in farming and blue collar work.
The Ku Kux Klan hated everyone expect...
White MEN
Sacco and Vanzetti
In 1920, these two communists were wrongly convicted of murder and robbery
What was the Kellogg- Brand Pact?
A pact promising not to use war as an instrument of policy.
Define Demobilization?
When soilders retire from active service
Who was President Coolidge?
Being president when Harding died and believed in the government supporting big business
One example of how the roaring 20's boasted america's economy?
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- More Inventions
-Growth of adversity
-The automobile
What was the Scopes Monkey Trial
In 1925, the trial that pitted the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution against teaching bible creationism