| A | B |
|---|
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of foreigners |
| American Plan | effort of business leaders to make industries "open shops" where union membership was not required or was forbidden |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | Senate investigation revealed corruption by Secretary of the Interio Albert Fall involving naval oil reserves |
| Kellogg Braind Pact | agreement that tried to outlaw warfare |
| demobilization | process of returning to a peacetime economy |
| anarchists | people who want to abolish all forms of government |
| Ohio Gang | friends that President Harding appointed to gov. jobs even though most were not really qualified |
| Red Scare | widespread fear of Communists and other rdicals in the United States |
| Model T | durable, reliable, and affordable car developed by Henry Ford |
| disarmament | limiting or reducing military weapons |
| Palmer raids | orderd by Attorney Palmer on suspected radical organizations |
| Washington Conference | mtg. with Us. and world's major nations to discuss disarmaments |
| assembly line | system to move parts among factory workouts sped up production |
| Fordney McCumber Tarriff Act | high taxes on imported farm products |
| A Mitchell Palmer | Us attorney general who ordered raids, often without warrants, on suspected radical organizations |
| Nicola Saccoand Vanzetti | anarchists and immigrants executed for robbery and murder, following a trial greantly influenced by xenophobia |
| American Civil Liberties Union | organization formed to protect people's constitutional rights |
| Five Power Naval Treaty | limited the size of the navy of each nation involved |
| installment plan | made it possible for people to buy things they could not immediately afford |
| Fordney McCumber Tarriff Act | designed to raise demand and prices ofr domestic crops |
| New York Stock Exchange | place where stocks are bought and sold |
| anarchists | people who want to do away with all government |
| Volsted Act | destablished federal penalties for manufacture and sale of alcohol |
| Fundamentalism | belief that the Bible is literally true and can be relied on as an unquestioned authority |
| Scopes Trial | case in which a teacher was convicted fined 100 for teaching the theory of evolution |
| Emergency Quota Act | limited total immigration to the US and established limits on number of immigrant from each European country |
| National Origins Act | included a ban on Japanese immigrantion to the US |
| Universal Negro Improvement Association | started by Marcus Garvey to end imperialism in Africa and discrimination in the US |
| Indian Citizenship Act | granted all American Indians legal protections and voting privileges of US citizenship |
| Hollywood, California | location of much of the movie industry by the 1920s |
| Lucky Lindy | nickname of Charles Lindbergh the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean |
| Armory Show | introduced the American public to cubism and other new paintings styles |
| flappers | young women who wore the new loose style of clothing |
| prohibition | temperance supporters campaigned for this |
| bootleggers | people invovled in transporting alcohol illegally |
| speakeasies | U.S. cities during prohibition, alcohol was availabe in secret illegal clubs |
| Jazz Age | name for the 1920s based on type of music that was very popular |
| lost generation | group of writers who criticized postwar American culture and society |
| great migration | mass movement of African Americans to midwestern and northern cities in search of better jobs and greater social opportunities |
| fundamentalism | belieft that the Bible is literally true and that it can be relied on as an unquestioned authority |
| 21st amendment | ended national prohibition |
| fads | interest often influenced by jmass media, followed with greath enthusiasm by many people for a short time |
| nativists | people opposed to immigrants into the U.S. |
| Harlem Renaissance | period of great African American artistic achievement |
| Ku Klux Klan | targeted african americans catholics jews and foreigners with its racism, intimidation, and violence |
