a highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school
Scopes Trial
1928 agreement in which many nations agreed to outlaw war
Kellogg-Briand Pact
A style of dance music popular in the 1920s
Jazz
An economic philosophy that holds the sharply cutting taxes will increase the incentive people have to work, save, and invest. Greater investments will lead to more jobs, a more productive economy, and more tax revenues for the government.
Supply Side Economics
the shifting of wealth from a rich minority to a poor majority
redistribution of wealth
Greed and materialism
Fundamentalism
Belief that all life was created by God.
Creationism
1921 legislation that limited immigration to 3% of the people of their nationality living in the US in 1910
Emergency Quota Act of 1921
Most violent strike
Steel strike
Part of the Red Scare, these were measures to hunt out political radicals and immigrants who were potential threats to American security; led to the arrest of nearly 5,500 people and the deportation of nearly 400.
Palmer raids
formed by the Soviet Union to coordinate the activities of Communist parties in other countries, spread communism, created by Lenin
Communist International
conservative senator who wanted to keep the united states out of the league of nations and supported Isolationism
Henry Cabot Lodge
A national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs
Isolationism
Italian radicals who became symbols of the Red Scare of the 1920s;
Sacco and Vanzetti
19th Amendment
Gave Women the right to vote
18th Amendment
Prohibition
African American leader durin the 1920s who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and advocated mass migration of African Americans back to Africa. Was deported to Jamaica in 1927.
Marcus Garvey
Going from a war time economy to a peace time economy; layoffs and high unemployment, strikes
Demobilization
28th president of the United States, known for World War I leadership, sought 14 points post-war plan, League of Nations (but failed to win U.S. ratification), won Nobel Peace Prize
Woodrow Wilson
states that organisms change and develop over time to adapt an increase rate of survival
Theory of Evolution
founder of modern communism
Karl Marx
(1922) Federal law that raised tariff rates on manufactured goods and levied high duties on imported agricultural goods.
Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act
Contracts some employers forced workers to sign that made the workers promise not to join a union
Yellow Dog Contract
fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life, very common in the 1920's
red scare
buying on credit
Installment Buying
In a factory, an arrangement where a product is moved from worker to worker, with each person performing a single task in the making of the product. Henry Ford perfected this
Assembly Line
led the Bolshevik (Communist) Revolution in Russia in 1917. He would lead the Communists to victory in the Civil War and would rule until his death in 1924.
Vladamir Lenin
Plunge in stock market prices that marked the beginning of the Great Depression
Stock Market Crash of 1929
Process of making large quantities of a product quickly and cheaply
Mass Production
corruption by a Harding cabinet member, who took bribes to allow oil drilling on public lands; stress led to Harding's death.
Teapot Dome Scandal
came from music by black slaves in the south, characterized by specific chord progressions and moods
Blues Music
Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party(Communist)
Eugene V Debs
A group of poker-playing, men that were friends of President Warren Harding. Harding appointed them to offices and they used their power to gain money for themselves. They were involved in scandals that ruined Harding's reputation even thou
Ohio gang
the designing of products to wear out or to become outdated quickly, so that people will feel a need to replace their possessions frequently. New is better than old.
planned obsolescence
A general and progressive increase in prices
Inflation
ways people avoided Prohibition by creating illegal bars and smuggling alcohol; increase in organized crime
Speakeasies and Bootleggers
science dealing with improving hereditary qualities,
Eugenics
1919, because of massive pay cuts after war
Year of strikes
Flappers
Women started wearing short skirts and bobbed hair, and had more freedom.
the Secretary of the Treasury during the Harding Administration. He felt it was best to invest in tax-exempt securities rather than in factories that provided prosperous payrolls. He believed in trickle down economics. also known as supply
Andrew Mellon
Oct. 24, 1929 a sell off began at noon the stock market closed fearing a run
Black Thursday
a movement, led by Marcus Garvey during the 1910s and 1920s, that promoted the return of blacks living all over the world to the country of Liberia in Africa.
Back to Africa Movement
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