Laws & Order
What is The New Deal?
This business tycoon took the world by storm long before he became the founder of Ford Motor Company.
Who is Henry Ford?
This new technology aided with spreading advertisements into the homes of consumers at the height of the Roaring 20s.
What is a radio?
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What are radios?
This type of media publication was based on little to no evidence and was popular because of how enticing it is
What is Yellow Journalism?
New way(s) of purchasing goods with the promise to pay off the full amount at a later time.
What is Credit or Installment Plans?
These policies were passed at the height of Reconstruction and made life more challenging for one group of Americans
What is Jim Crow?
This president adopted a style of laissez-faire and genuinely believed in the power of ”Rugged Individualism” could overcome all challenges as it did for him.
Who is President Hoover?
A production style that increased production and profits for business owners
What is the Assembly Line?
A period during the Roaring 20s when businesses advertised directly to potential customers and persuaded them to purchase their products
What is Consumer Culture?
During the United States’ entry into World War I and the period afterwards, a fear of Communism conquering Democracy swept the nation as spies and terrorists attacked local government agencies
What is the Red Scare?
This law was passed during the Fundamentalist movement, a resurgence of Christian moral values, to enforce the teaching of Creationism in public schools.
What is the Butler Act?
This former slave went on to gain his freedom, graduate from Hampton University, and later founded one of the first historically black colleges in America - the Tuskegee Institule.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
A wave of religious and moral codes that governed and inspired Americans to resist the changes in society to go back to a time before World War I that was ideally more Conservative.
What is Christian Fundamentalism?
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Who are Christian Fundamentalists?
The Mass Exodus of African Americans from the South to industrial cities in the northeast such as New York City and Chicago
What is the Great Migration?
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What is the Black Exodus?
The advancement of a marginalized group that overcomes obstacles and challenges to ultimately obtain equality for their group
What is Suffrage?
This law was passed to prohibit the consumption of alcohol in all 50 states, and punish individuals who purchase or sell alcohol to others.
What is Prohibition?
Although this president was related to a war hero, this president would help lead his country through a different obstacle that required a new hands-on approach of direct government involvement.
Who is President FDR?
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Who is President Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
What are Flappers?
At the height of the Great Depression the American government resorted to legally relocating migrant laborers from overpopulated cities where citizens were already struggling to find work
What is Mexican Repatriation?
The leading generation of educated and highly successful African Americans that will provide solutions for and bring change for all African Americans in America
What is the Talented Tenth?
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What are the Talented Tenth?
This law was passed to protect American expansionism and all island nations in the Western Hemisphere from any European invasion.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This accomplished Harvard graduate went on to found the N.A.A.C.P. and continued to advocate for immediate racial equality through their various avenues of activism.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
This event was the culmination of the Roaring 20s as faith in the economy was at an all time high with both business owners and employees investing in stocks with no government regulations to protect their interests or their money.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
This time period took place at the height of the Roaring 20s as millions of Americans took part in the Great Migration in order to escape the atrocities plaguing the South
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
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What is the New Negro Movement?
The beginning of the Introduction Paragraph that provides a brief overview of a time period that the writer wants to bring to the reader’s attention
What is Broad Historical Contextualization?
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What is Broad Historical Context/BHC?