A | B |
nativists | People born in America who believed they were better than foreigners |
Emergency Quota Act | Law which limited the number of immigrants coming from each country |
National Origins Act | lowered the annual quota for immigrants from each country |
John Scopes | Science teacher from Tennessee who wanted to teach Theory of Evolution |
Clarence Darrow | Lawyer who represented John Scopes dring the Monkey Trial |
William Jennings Bryan | Lawyer who represented the government during the Monkey Trial |
American Civil Liberties Union | organization which protects the rights of citizens |
Herbert Hoover | winner of the 1928 presidential election |
Alfred E. Smith | First Catholic to run for president |
Scopes-Monkey Trial | court case in which Theory of Evolution was pitted against the Bible |