Lesson 26
This limited the number of immigrants to 3% of a country's population.
What is the quota system?
Created by shady real estate developers who sold lots along the Atlantic Coast to speculators during the early 2oth Century.
What is the Florida Land Boom?
A period of history known for its fast-paced social life and quickly rising market values.
What are the Roaring Twenties?
A secret drinking establishment during Prohibition?
What is a speakeasy?
This economic index is used to measure stock prices of industrial corporations.
What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
The Post World War I fear of communist radicals.
What is the Red Scare?
A return to life as it had been in prewar America.
What is a Return to Normalcy?
A popular 1920s dance that originated as an African American folk dance in the South.
What is the Charleston?
Daring young women who broke with tradition by coloring their hair, cutting it short, and wearing dresses that exposed their legs below the knees.
Who are flappers?
An agreement between the United States and France to outlaw war between their countries, joined by 62 other signature nations.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
These were conducted on homes and offices of those suspected of being radicals and subversives.
What are the Palmer Raids?
When Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall, leased oil reserves in Elk Hills, California to two companies that paid him $360,000.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
This movement encompassed the outpouring of creativity among African American writers, artists, and musicians during the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
What is the Volstead Act?
The leader of the Back-to-Africa Movement who proposed to relocate Black Americans to the African Continent instead of living in segregated America.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
Italian immigrants who were convicted of a double murder and robbery.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
What is the Dawes Plan?
American writers who developed themes and writing styles that continue to define the post World War I world.
Who are the Lost Generation?
People who had a deep respect for long-held cultural and religious beliefs.
What are traditionalists?
Tennessee teacher who was arrested for teaching the Theory of Evolution.
Who is John Scopes?
This organization specialized in the defense of unpopular individuals and groups, using lawyers to fight for the rights of immigrants and those opposed to government policies that discriminated.
What is the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)?
When representatives from Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan met in the United States to discuss naval disarmament during 1921.
What is the Washington Naval Conference?
A proposed amendment to the Constitution that attempted to guarantee equality for all Americans regardless of gender.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)?
People who embraced new ideas, styles, and social trends.
What are modernists?
An economic system characterized by private ownership of property.
What is a free enterprise system?