| A | B |
|---|
| nativism | favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign-born people |
| isolationism | opposition to political and economic entanglements with other countries |
| communism | an economic and political system based on one-party government and state ownership of property |
| red scare | panic in the U.S. after the Russian government was overthrown by Vladimir Lenin and his revolutionaries (Bolsheviks)...fear that communism would replace capitalism |
| anarchists | a person who opposes all forms of government |
| A. Mitchell Palmer | U.S. Attorney General that orders all suspected communists, anarchists, and socialist be jailed or deported |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | arrested, charged, convicted, and executed for robbery and murder in 1920--reason: Italian and radical, no hard evidence of guilt |
| Ku Klux Klan (KKK) | hate group that had 4.5 million members by 1924 and used the red scare as an excuse for their criminal activities |
| quota system | Emergency Quota Act of 1921 put limits on the number of people that could enter the U.S. from each country |
| Boston Police Strike | Calvin Coolidge, the governor of Massachusetts at the time, ended this event by sending in the National Guard |
| Coal Miners' Strike | example of the positive effects of unions for workers when they were given 27% wage increase |
| John L. Lewis | leader of the Coal Miners Union in 1919 (United Mine Workers of America) |
| Warren G. Harding | winner of the 1920 presidential election, "looked like a president ought to look" |
| Charles Evans Hughes | member of Harding's cabinet (Secretary of State) that urged no more warships be built for 10 years |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | In 1928, 15 countries sign this, renouncing war as a national policy |
| Fordney-McCumber Tariff | 1922 policy which raised taxes on U.S. imports by 60% which protected U.S. businesses from foreign competition |
| Ohio Gang | Harding's group of poker-playing cronies that became members of his cabinet and were involved in scandalous activities |
| Teapot Dome scandal | Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall's secret leasing of oil-rich public land to private companies in return for money and land |
| Albert B. Fall | member of Harding's cabinet that was involved in scandalous activity of oil reserves in Wyoming |
| Calvin Coolidge | became President of the U.S. in 1923 following Harding's sudden death and supported business |
| Henry Ford | creator of the automobile and the assembly line which both have lasting effects today |
| urban sprawl | unplanned and uncontrolled spreading of cities into surrounding regions (urbanization of cities) |
| superficial prosperity | a false sense of wealth through the accumulation of many material items that have been purchased using credit |
| installment plan | this allowed consumers to buy goods over an extended period of time without having to put much money down at the time of purchase |
