American History - Unit 6

Great Migration

Between 1910 and 1930, 6 million blacks moved out of the south because they found education and employment opportunities that did not exist in the south

Scopes trial

A trial regarding the theory of evolution, where was concluded that Darwins theory clashed with religious views, and that it could not be taught in classrooms

Clarence Darrow

The most celebrated defense attorney in America, who defended Scopes, who was accused of teaching the theory of evolution

William Jennings Bryan

A longtime defender of rural values who served as an expert for the prosecution in the Scopes trial

Red scare

A wave of widespread fear of suspected communists and radicals thought to be plotting revolution within the United States

Palmer raids

A series of raids in the early 1920s where police arrested thousands of people, some who were radicals and some who were simply immigrants because of the Red Scare

Sacco and Vanzetti

Italian immigrants and anarchists who were charged for shooting and killing two men while robbing a shoe factory. There was little hard evidence to prove their conviction, but were still found guilty.

Eugenics

These since-discredited idea that intelligence and other favorable social traits were inheritable characteristics passed on by one’s parents and more frequently found in some races than others

Quota system

A US immigration policy that limited the number of immigrants allowed to enter the country each year based on their nationality

KKK

A powerful white supremacist hate group that promoted racism, nativism, and anti-immigration beliefs

Prohibition

The banning of alcohol use in the 1920s

18th Amendment

An amendment that forbade the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol anywhere in the United States

Volstead act

A law that officially enforced the 18th amendment

Bootlegger

Someone who sold illegal alcohol to consumers during prohibition

Seneca Falls Convention (1848)

The first national demand for women’s right to vote

Carrie Chapman Catt

Suffragist who believed in gradual change through traditional methods

Alice Paul

Suffragist who believed in immediate change and use of radical methods

Harry Burn

He cast the deciding vote in Tennessee after being influenced by his mom’s note

Communist Manifesto

An 1848 book written because the authors saw a huge gap between the “haves” and the “have-nots”which they thought was the cause of conflict

Communism

A society where the have-nots (workers) revolt and overthrow the haves (owners). All people are equal, there is no private property, and society turns into a utopia as the revolution spreads around the world

Bolshevik Revolution

Where communists revolted in Russia where workers overthrew their masters and gained power. Influenced the Red Scare in America

A. Mitchell Palmer

best known for launching the Palmer Raids as U.S. Attorney General, a series of campaigns in 1919–1920 to arrest and deport suspected radicals, anarchists, and communists, which became a defining event of the First Red Scare.

J. Edgar Hoover

head of the Justice Department's Radical Division who orchestrated the Palmer Raids, arresting thousands of suspected radicals, anarchists, and communists without warrants, often for mere association, holding them in brutal conditions, and facilitating mass deportations