| A | B |
|---|
| Nativism | prejudice against foreign born people |
| isolationism | US policy of pulling away from involvement in foreign affairs |
| communism | single party government ruled by a dictatorship |
| The Red Scare | US fear that communists were taking over America |
| Palmer Raids | The hunt for suspected radicals in the US |
| Sacco and Vanzetti Trial | 2 Italian immigrants charged with robbery and murder on circumstantial evidence |
| Immigration Act of 1924 | Limited the entry of immigrants from Southern and Western Europe and Asia |
| Union Membership | Decreases in the 1920's, belonging to this might mean beatings, jail |
| Fordney-McCumber Tariff | Raised taxes on US imports to 60% protecting US goods like metals and chemical products |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall, secretly taking bribes and letting private companies drill for oil on public land |
| urban sprawl | cities spreading in all directions because the auto allowed workers to live further from their jobs |
| prohibition | time in which the sale, transport, and manufacture of alcohol was illegal |
| speakeasies | hidden nightclubs that sold illegal alcohol |
| bootleggers | smugglers who provided illegal alcohol |
| fundamentalism | believed in the literal translation of the Bible and disbelieved in science |
| Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial | Court fight over teaching evolution in school. |
| John Scopes | Found guilty of teaching evolution and famously went to court with the ACLU to fight the fine. He lost. |
| Clarence Darrow | ACLU lawyer hired to defend John Scopes for teaching evolution in a Tennesee classroom |
| flapper | The New Woman. Embraced new fashions, cut their hair, became more assertive |
| Charles Lindberg | First pilot to fly non stop from New York to Paris, France |
| Harlem Renaissance | a literary and artistic movement that celebrated African American culture |
| Langston Hughes | Harlem Renaissance's best known poet |
| Great Migration | African Americans moving north for better jobs and higher wages |
| Marcus Garvey | Leader of the "Back to Africa" movement |
| Jazz Age | Nickname for decade of 1920 to 1929 |
| Louis Armstrong | Famous African American trumpet player famous for his jazz rifts |
