ch. 23 ib history (period 7) vocab

Sacco and Vanzetti

Italian-born American anarchists who were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company.

Immigration Acts (1921, 1924)

A law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States.

Al Capone

An American gangster who attained fame during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit.

Scopes Monkey Trial

An American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.

Henry Ford

An American industrialist and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.

Wright Brothers

American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who are generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane.

Charles Lindbergh

An American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist.

Marcus Garvey

A Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a proponent of the Pan-Africanism movement.

Stock Market

An everyday term we use to talk about a place where stocks and bonds are 'traded' - meaning bought and sold.

Bolshevik Revolution

An event wherein leftist revolutionaries led by leader Vladimir Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup d'état against the Russian Duma's provisional government.

Harlem Renaissance

A new African awareness that flourished in literature, art, and music.

Sheppard-Towner Act

The first federal social welfare law that provided funds for infant and maternity care.

League of Women Voters

Group forged advocating for women's rights, among them the right for women to serve on juries and equal pay laws.

Flappers

Women who bobbed their hair, shortened hemlines, rolled their stockings down, discarded their corsets, wore makeup, and smoked.

Ernest Hemingway

An author who wrote about his WWI experiences in A Farewell to Arms.

T.S. Eliot

The poet who wrote the book of poetry that inspired the Broadway smash hit Cats.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The author of the Great Gatsby.

The Jazz Singer

The first Talkie motion picture.

Nosferatu

The first vampire movie.

Model T

The first mass-produced automobile produced by Ford.

Advertising

The new arm of American commerce that became necessary due to increased productivity.

Rumrunners

The term for smugglers that brought alcohol from the Caribbean to the US during Prohibition.

Welfare capitalism

A paternalistic system of labor relations emphasizing management responsibility for employee well-being.

Volstead Act

Law designed to enforce the 18th Amendment.