| A | B |
|---|
| Nativism | Suspicion of foreign born people |
| Isolationism | Pulling away from world affairs |
| Communism | an economic and political system that supports government control over property to create equality |
| Anarchists | oppose ALL forms of government |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | were arrested for robbery and murder. Admitted being anarchists, but denied committing crime...were executed. |
| quota system | Set a limit on how many immigrants from each country could enter the U.S. each year |
| John L Lewis | President of the United Mine Workers |
| Fordney McCumber Tariff | high tax on imports in 1922...made it impossible for Britain and France to sell goods in U.S. |
| Dawes Plan | U.S. loan to Germany to pay back Britain and France, who then paid America |
| Ohio Gang | president's poker playing buddies appointed to his cabinet |
| Teapot Dome scandal | government owned land that was secretly leased to oil companies |
| Albert B. Fall | Harding's secretary of the interior involved in Teapot dome scandal |
| Urban Sprawl | cities spreading out in all directions |
| installment plan | form of borrowing on credit |
| prohibition | ban on alcoholic beverages from 18th amendment |
| speakeasies | hidden saloons and nightclubs that served liquor illegally |
| Al Capone | Chicago mobster |
| 21st amendment | repealed prohibition |
| fundamentalism | religious movement based on everything written in Bible was literally true. |
| Clarence Darrow | most famous trial lawyer in the nation defended Scopes. |
| Scopes Trial | Trial about teaching evolution |
| flapper | emancipated woman who held independent attitudes and liked new fashions of the day. |
| double standard | Set of principles generally accepted by society |
| Charles A. Lindbergh | 1st person to fly solo across the Atlantic |
| Sinclair Lewis | First american to win a nobel prize for literature. |
| Ernest Hemingway | introduced a tough simple style of writing that changed literature in America. |
| Harlem Renaissance | literary and artistic movement celebrated African American culture |
| Louis Armstrong | jazz musician |
| Duke Ellington | jazz pianist and great composer |
