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Untitled Flashcards Set

  1. Sacco and Vanzetti  - We italian Radical  who left to evade the draft and come back  who were thought to have killed a guard and a playmaster during an armed robbery and later put to death for their crimes. ( symbols of the red scare)

  2. Eugenics -false science of the improvement of hereditary traits   said that human inequalities were inherited = inferior people should not be allowed to breed promoted the idea of strict immigration control Return of the Ku Klux Klan

  3. Ku Klux Klan -  The resurrected movement of nativists in America in the 1920s and targeted African Americans, Jews, Catholic, Radical and immigrants but fell after a scandal among the leaders. 

  4. Emergency Quota Act -  S law that established a system to place a  3 % entry limit on the number of immigrants from each country. 

  5. National Origins Act of 1924/quota system/Mexican Immigration  -  The act which restricted immigrants from an one nation to two percent of the number already  and severely restricted immigrants from southern and eastern , central europe and excluded asians. 

  6. Fundamentalism  -A movement or belief system that emphasizes a strict adherence to specific theological doctrines,

  7. Butler Act - A law passed in tennessee that prohibits the teaching of evolution in public schools and mandates the teaching of a literal interpretation of the bible

  8. The Scopes Trial - The trial for a teach who taught evolution even though there was a act that said it wasn't real and you can't teach it ( Monkey Trials)

  9. Prohibition (18th Amendment/21st Amendment) - A period from 1919 to 1933 that made the distribution , sale and consumption of alcohol illegal in the united states started by the 18 amendment and the 21 repeal the prohibition

  10. Volstead Act - Bill passed by congress to enforce the 18 amendment

  11. Babe Ruth - An American major league baseball player from 1914 to 1935 was named the greatest baseball player in history with his home runs and charismatic personality. 

  12. Great Migration - The migration of hundreds to thousands of america from the south to the north looking for jobs and to example racism. 

  13. Harlem Renaissance - The flourishing of african america in literature and art in the 1920,started in harlem new york and  spread to urban cameras in america ( Figures : Langston Hughes, Claude Mckay, W.E.B DuBois )

  14. Claude McKay - first important writer of the Harlem Renaissance = works expressed defiance + contempt of racism (Harlem Shadows = book of poetry)


  1. Langston Hughes  leading voice of African American experience in U.S.

  2. Louis Armstrong-  jazz music = first great cornet + trumpet soloist in jazz music


  1. Jazz  - Age of music pioneer by african american musicians from new orleans. 

  2. Duke Ellington - A renowned composer , painter and bandleader who contributed to the jazz genre and gained from performing form the cotton club. 

  3. Cotton Club -  famous Harlem nightspot = where Duke Ellington got his start (composer, pianist, and band leader)


  1. Bessie Smith - great blues singer = soulful style of music evolved from African American spirituals

  2. Blues - A soulful style of music that evolved from African america spiritual characterized by its expressive melodies that roots from the history/ culture of African americans.  

  3. Harding’s  cabinet appointments/the Ohio Gang  - Harding appointed all of his friends from Ohio and caused a huge scandal with bribery to his section of the interior Albert Fall. Alber received bribes totaling over $300,000 dollars and was the 1wt cabin officer  to be sent to prison. 

  4. Teapot Dome scandal/Albert B. Fall  - A scandal during the Harding administration involving the granting of oil drill rights on government land in return for money. 

  5. Coolidge’s Philosophy of government  (laissez-faire) distanced himself from the Harding administration focused on prosperity through business leadership with little government intervention (laissez-faire politics)

  6. Harding’s  cabinet appointments/the Ohio Gang  - Harding appointed all of his friends from Ohio and caused a huge scandal with bribery to his section of the interior Albert Fall. Alber received bribes totaling over $300,000 dollars and was the 1wt cabin officer  to be sent to prison. 

    1. .Teapot Dome scandal/Albert B. Fall  - A scandal during the Harding administration involving the granting of oil drill rights on government land in return for money. 

    2. Coolidge’s Philosophy of government  (laissez-faire) distanced himself from the Harding administration focused on prosperity through business leadership with little government intervention (laissez-faire politics)

    3. Mass production - The manufacture of many identical products by the division of labor into small repetition tasks . 

    4. Assembly line/Henry Ford - a line to get objects made faster like henry ford's car assembly line.

    5. Model T - A type of car devolved by henry from one of the first cars to come out

    6. The Mellon Program  - limiting federal budget expenditures.

    7. Herbert Hoover/Cooperative individualism  - he reflects his belief that America could bring about their own success or failures in partnership . Fordney-McCumber Act - Raised tariffs.

    8. Isolationism - to protect the country wealth and pier that it had gained 

    9. Kellogg-Briand Pact - The 1928 treaty created by countries and sought to create a fragile peace with counties. 

Untitled Flashcards Set

  1. Sacco and Vanzetti  - We italian Radical  who left to evade the draft and come back  who were thought to have killed a guard and a playmaster during an armed robbery and later put to death for their crimes. ( symbols of the red scare)

  2. Eugenics -false science of the improvement of hereditary traits   said that human inequalities were inherited = inferior people should not be allowed to breed promoted the idea of strict immigration control Return of the Ku Klux Klan

  3. Ku Klux Klan -  The resurrected movement of nativists in America in the 1920s and targeted African Americans, Jews, Catholic, Radical and immigrants but fell after a scandal among the leaders. 

  4. Emergency Quota Act -  S law that established a system to place a  3 % entry limit on the number of immigrants from each country. 

  5. National Origins Act of 1924/quota system/Mexican Immigration  -  The act which restricted immigrants from an one nation to two percent of the number already  and severely restricted immigrants from southern and eastern , central europe and excluded asians. 

  6. Fundamentalism  -A movement or belief system that emphasizes a strict adherence to specific theological doctrines,

  7. Butler Act - A law passed in tennessee that prohibits the teaching of evolution in public schools and mandates the teaching of a literal interpretation of the bible

  8. The Scopes Trial - The trial for a teach who taught evolution even though there was a act that said it wasn't real and you can't teach it ( Monkey Trials)

  9. Prohibition (18th Amendment/21st Amendment) - A period from 1919 to 1933 that made the distribution , sale and consumption of alcohol illegal in the united states started by the 18 amendment and the 21 repeal the prohibition

  10. Volstead Act - Bill passed by congress to enforce the 18 amendment

  11. Babe Ruth - An American major league baseball player from 1914 to 1935 was named the greatest baseball player in history with his home runs and charismatic personality. 

  12. Great Migration - The migration of hundreds to thousands of america from the south to the north looking for jobs and to example racism. 

  13. Harlem Renaissance - The flourishing of african america in literature and art in the 1920,started in harlem new york and  spread to urban cameras in america ( Figures : Langston Hughes, Claude Mckay, W.E.B DuBois )

  14. Claude McKay - first important writer of the Harlem Renaissance = works expressed defiance + contempt of racism (Harlem Shadows = book of poetry)


  1. Langston Hughes  leading voice of African American experience in U.S.

  2. Louis Armstrong-  jazz music = first great cornet + trumpet soloist in jazz music


  1. Jazz  - Age of music pioneer by african american musicians from new orleans. 

  2. Duke Ellington - A renowned composer , painter and bandleader who contributed to the jazz genre and gained from performing form the cotton club. 

  3. Cotton Club -  famous Harlem nightspot = where Duke Ellington got his start (composer, pianist, and band leader)


  1. Bessie Smith - great blues singer = soulful style of music evolved from African American spirituals

  2. Blues - A soulful style of music that evolved from African america spiritual characterized by its expressive melodies that roots from the history/ culture of African americans.  

  3. Harding’s  cabinet appointments/the Ohio Gang  - Harding appointed all of his friends from Ohio and caused a huge scandal with bribery to his section of the interior Albert Fall. Alber received bribes totaling over $300,000 dollars and was the 1wt cabin officer  to be sent to prison. 

  4. Teapot Dome scandal/Albert B. Fall  - A scandal during the Harding administration involving the granting of oil drill rights on government land in return for money. 

  5. Coolidge’s Philosophy of government  (laissez-faire) distanced himself from the Harding administration focused on prosperity through business leadership with little government intervention (laissez-faire politics)

  6. Harding’s  cabinet appointments/the Ohio Gang  - Harding appointed all of his friends from Ohio and caused a huge scandal with bribery to his section of the interior Albert Fall. Alber received bribes totaling over $300,000 dollars and was the 1wt cabin officer  to be sent to prison. 

    1. .Teapot Dome scandal/Albert B. Fall  - A scandal during the Harding administration involving the granting of oil drill rights on government land in return for money. 

    2. Coolidge’s Philosophy of government  (laissez-faire) distanced himself from the Harding administration focused on prosperity through business leadership with little government intervention (laissez-faire politics)

    3. Mass production - The manufacture of many identical products by the division of labor into small repetition tasks . 

    4. Assembly line/Henry Ford - a line to get objects made faster like henry ford's car assembly line.

    5. Model T - A type of car devolved by henry from one of the first cars to come out

    6. The Mellon Program  - limiting federal budget expenditures.

    7. Herbert Hoover/Cooperative individualism  - he reflects his belief that America could bring about their own success or failures in partnership . Fordney-McCumber Act - Raised tariffs.

    8. Isolationism - to protect the country wealth and pier that it had gained 

    9. Kellogg-Briand Pact - The 1928 treaty created by countries and sought to create a fragile peace with counties. 

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