Ch.7 Great Depression/World War 1

Open Shops & Welfare Capitalism

intertwined strategies used by American employers to manage labor and prevent unionization

Charles Lindbergh

international icon in the 1920s by completing the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight in May 1927

Modernism

An artistic and cultural movement challenged traditional values and embracing urbanization, new technology, and radical shifts

Fundamentalism

opposed modernists, insisting on literal Bible and blamed modernists for moral decline

Billy Sunday and Aimee Semple McPherson

used radio to spread fundamentalists messages, condemning drinking, gambling, jazz, and communism

Scopes Monkey Trial

Legal case where high school teacher John Scopes was convicted for teaching evolution

Volstead Act

!8th Amendment, 1919 banned alcohol to promote sobriety, enforced by __, reflecting decades of activism

Al Capone

ruled an empire of crime: gambling, prostitution, bootlegging…