Chapter 22 Vocab - The "New Era"

Welfare Capitalism

An approach to labor relations in which companies meet some of their workers' needs without prompting by unions, thus preventing strikes and keeping productivity high.

Margaret Sanger

United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood.

Flappers

Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion.

Lost Generation

Group of writers in 1920s who shared the belief that they were lost in a greedy, materialistic world that lacked moral values and often choose to flee to Europe.

Ernest Hemingway

Lost Generation writer, spent much of his life in France, Spain, and Cuba during WWI, notable works include A Farewell to Arms.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A novelist and chronicler of the jazz age. He wrote The Great Gatsby that is considered a masterpiece about a gangster's pursuit of an unattainable rich girl.

Harlem Renaissance

A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished.

Al Capone

A mob king in Chicago who controlled a large network of speakeasies with enormous profits. His illegal activities convey the failure of prohibition in the twenties and the problems with gangs.

Speakeasies

An illegal bar where drinks were sold, during the time of prohibition. It was called a Speakeasy because people literally had to speak easy so they were not caught drinking alcohol by the police.

Immigration Quota Act 1924

This was passed in 1924 replaced the Quota Act of 1921, cutting quotas for foreigners from 3% to 2%. Different countries were only allowed to send an allotted number of its citizens to America every year.

Religious Fundamentalism

A religious movement whose objectives are to return to the foundations of the faith and to influence state policy.

Scopes Trial

1925 court case in which Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan debated the issue of teaching evolution in public schools

Warren G. Harding

U.S. President who called for a return to normalcy following WWI.

Teapot Dome Scandal

Scandal during the Harding administration involving the granting of oil-drilling rights on government land in return for money.

"The Business of America is Business"

A statement made by president Calvin Coolidge which showed his overconfidence in the American economy before the Great Depression.