VFL

Nativism

suspicion/ prejudice against foreign-born people

Isolationism

Policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs

Communism

An economic system that supports government control over property to create equality

Anarchists

People who opposed any form of government

Sacco and Vanzetti

Immigrant anarchists accused of murder

Quota system

A system that established the maximum number of people who could enter the United States from each country

Warren G. Harding

29th president of eth United States who tried to get the U.S. back to “normalcy”

Teapot Dome Scandal

Government had set aside oil-rich public lands where there was a scandal surrounding Albert Fall

Calvin Coolidge

President of the U.S. (1923-1929) succeeded to presidency on death of Harding, elected in 1924

Installment Plan

Enabled people to buy goods over an extended period, without having to put down much money at the time of purchase

Prohibition

That era that prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages

Speakeasies

Hidden saloons and nightclubs that illegally sold liquor

Bootleggers

Smugglers (named for a smuggler’s practice of carrying liquor in the legs of boots)

Fundamentalism

Religious movement based on belief that everything written in the bible was literally true

Clarence Darrow

Famous Trial Lawyer who defended Scopes in the “Scopes Monkey Trial”

Scopes Monkey Trial

Fight over evolutions and the role of science and religion in public schools and in American society

Flappers

Young women who embraced the new fashions and values of the 1920s

Charles A. Lindenberg

First person to fly solo across the Atlantic

Harlem Renaissance

A literary and artistic movement celebrating African- American culture

John L Lewis

United Main Workers of America, organized in 1890. Who was the leader?

Return to Normalcy

The United States wanted to do this after the war

Roaring 20s

Americans experienced cultural conflicts as customs and values changed. This was the time of music, artists ect.

Albert B. Fall

Famous for his involvement in the Teapot Dome Scandal. He leased the governments land to two different oil companies and profited off of it.

Ohio Gang

The presidents poker-playing cronies

Tin Pan Alley

the popular music publishing center of the world between 1885 to the 1920s.