Cambridge History CH 30

Bolshevik Revolution

Russian revolution centered around communism

Red Scare

Fear of communism spreading to the US that pushed for anti-progressive ideas

Criminal Syndicalism Laws

made it illegal for individuals or groups to advocate radical political and economic changes by criminal or violent means (attack on communism)

American Plan

Attack on closed shop to make it open shop (not requiring union workers who were more skilled)

Immigration Act of 1924

Changed quota from 3% to 2% for the amount of people that can immigrate to the US

Eighteenth Amendment

Prohibition Act; illegal to produce, transport, or sell. (Bootlegging)

Volstead Act

Actually implemented the 18th Amendment

Racketeers

Criminals, especially those who's involved in organized white collar crime or dishonest business dealings

Bible Belt

Deep South

Fundamentalism

Believing the Bible actually happened word for word

Scientific Management

Very efficient method of manufacturing where low skilled workers work together doing repetitive tasks

Fordism

the use of labor specialization and a moving assembly line production to create a large number of standardized goods at decreased prices for consumers

United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)

Sponsored black businesses to keep money in black pockets; Helped newcomers to northern cities gain self-confidence and self-reliance

Modernism

questioned social conventions and traditional authorities, considered outmoded by accelerating changes of 20th century life

“Lost Generation”

Hemingway, Fitzgerald and other American writers and painters formed artistic cadre (A group of artists who made content about war)

Harlem Renaissance

Black cultural renaissance in uptown Harlem led by writers Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston and jazz artists Louis Armstrong and Eubie Blake

A. Mitchell Palmer

Attorney General who did raids to “rat out communists”

Nicola Sacco

Mixed with Bartholomeo Vanzetti convicted in 1921 of murder of a Mass. Paymaster and his guard (alleged but under the guise that red scare lead to their guilty verdict which ended up killing them)

Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Mixed with Nicola Sacco convicted in 1921 of murder of a Mass. Paymaster and his guard (alleged but under the guise that red scare lead to their guilty verdict which ended up killing them)

Horace Kallen

In ______ vision the United States should provide a protective canopy for ethnic and racial groups to preserve their cultural uniqueness

Randolph Bourne

advocated greater cross-fertilization among immigrants; Cosmopolitan interchange

Al Capone

1925 “Scarface” began six years of gang warfare; Zoomed through streets in armor-plated car with bulletproof windows

John T. Scopes

HS teacher that taught creation (bible) and evolution (banned) which put him in the _____ Monkey Trial

Frederick Taylor

Guy who made Scientific Management

Henry Ford

Guy who made car mass produced and consequently popularized them

Charles A. Lindbergh

Guy who had a 33 hour flight across the Atlantic in Spirit of St. Louis

Margaret Sanger

Organized birth control movement; openly championed contraceptives

Sigmund Freud

Philosopher that believed in the unconscious mind; Justification for new sexual frankness found in writings (did questionable things to patients 😕 google if u wanna remember what he did better)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise and the Great Gatsby (also part of young writers jolted by WW1)

Ernest Hemingway

Among writers most affected by WWI; His literary successes and flamboyant personal life made him one of most famous writers in world; The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms

T.S. Eliot

American poet (lost generation) The Waste Land (1922) produced one of most impenetrable but influential poems of century

William Faulkner

Focused on displacement of agrarian Old South by rising industrial order; The Sound and the Fury (1929) and As I Lay Dying (1930) he peeled back layers of time and consciousness from constricted souls of his ingrown southern characters

Langston Hughes

Poet that was part of the Harlem Renaissance