APUSH - Unit 21 Vocab (Part 1)

Red Scare

A term for anticommunist hysteria that swept the United States and led to a series of government raids

Palmer Raids

A series of raids led by the Attorney General on radical organizations when federal agents arrested 6,000 citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel

Great Migration

The migration of over 400,000 African Americans from the rural South to the industrial cities of the North during and after World War I

Red Summer

a wave of white supremacist violence, lynchings, and deadly race riots that erupted in more than two dozen U.S. cities and towns over a summer

American Plan

a business-led movement by U.S. employers to maintain union-free "open shops" and refuse collective bargaining with labor unions

Welfare capitalism

A system of labor relations that stressed management’s responsibility for employees’ well-being

Dollar diplomacy

Policy emphasizing the connection between America’s economic and political interests overseas

Teapot Dome

Nickname for scandal where Interior Secretary, Albert Fall, accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Wyoming

Consumer credit

New forms of borrowing, such as auto loans and installment plans, that flourished at the start but helped trigger the Great Depression

Hollywood

City in the area of Los Angeles, California where, by the 1920s, nearly 90 percent of all films in the world were produced

Flapper

Young women in the 1920s who rebelled against the older generations by wearing short skirts and makeup and flaunting her liberated lifestyle