- "Back to Africa" movement, UNIA- support and create black business
- Marcus Garvey
- "little war"
- guerrilla warfare
- "Manassa Mauler" -boxer who popularized and turned boxing into a phenomenon.
- Jack Dempsey
- "the galloping ghost" -first great university football player -makes it a big attraction
- "Red" Grange
- -from Chicago -"Mother Jones" -Irish immigrant, wife of iron worker -husband and four kids died of yellow fever -took care of herself by dress-shop -burned in chicago fire of 1871
- Mary Harris Jones
- -lived in Chicago -vocal protestor advocating women's rights -governor of illinois chooses her to head inspecting factories -got a degree to become lawyer to be able to prosecute
- Florence Kelly
- -women wanted to vote -fueled temperance movement: though could trace all bad things done to alcohol)
- Women's Movement
- 1927- becomes hero to American people as 1st to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
- Charles Lindbergh.
- 2 individuals who were tried and imprisoned by government in cases that called for limiting freedom of speech.
- Shenck and Gitlow
- 2 men accused of robbery and murder in 1920's. -highly and publicized and controversial trial that resulted in conviction and execution. - many believed they were only guilty of being Italian immigrants and political radicals.
- Sacco and Vanzetti.
- 2nd person to fly solo across Atlantic Ocean -decides to fly around the world -mysteriously disappeared.
- Amelia Earhart.
- 3 kinds of air warfare
- reconasince, dogfighting, bombing
- 3x failed presidential candidate who returns to law and acts as prosecuter in the monkey trial
- William Jennings Bryan
- a black hand agent who misses killing the archduke from his designated position, and when trying to catch them, he finds them because parade was diverted.
- Gavrilo Princip.
- a method of buying stock where the investor only payed a small portion of the price of share with the intention of paying the balance later.
- margin
- a new approach towards labor relations where employers raised wages and provided benefits -led to workers having a greater loyalty, higher morale, but led to organized labor losing members during the 1920's.
- Welfare Capitalism
- a new method of buying goods in the 1920's where people no longer had to save entire price of an item but could get it in payments.
- installment plan
- a novel by F. Scott Fitsgerald which was considered a masterpiece of the 20's
- The Great Gatsby
- a place that made its own laws and handles its own internal economy, but defense and trade handled by US.
- commonwealth
- a political and economic system which called for gov. or public control or ownership of property and industry -gov. running industry -a lesser form of communism -grew to popularity until 1917
- socialism
- a political and economic system which called for government or public control or ownership of property and industry.
- Socialism
- A reduction of armaments to lowest point of safety.
- 4th of 14 points.
- a way to measure economic growth
- Gross National Product
- a way to measure economic growth, the total value of the goods and services produced by a country in a year.
- Gross National Product.
- acidic, dense, burns skin lungs eyes. type of poison gas used extensively in the war.
- Mustard Gas
- addition ot COnstitution that made us, manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol illegal.
- 18th Amendment
- addition that created permanent federal income tax.
- 16th Amendment
- addition to Constitution in 1920 which made use, sale, manufacture, and transport or alcoholic beverages illegal
- 18th Amendment
- addition to Monroe Doctrine which said if any nation needs to interfere in the affairs of Latin America, the US will do the interfering
- Roosevelt Corollary
- addition to the Constitution in 1933 which ended the era in which alcoholic beverages were outlawed.
- 21st Amendment
- addition to the Constitution in the 20's which gave women the right to vote everywhere in the US
- 19th Amendment
- addresses many social and political problems in "Looking Backward"
- Edward Bellamy
- Adjust colonial policies, taking into account rights and interests of people in the colonies.
- 5th of 14 points.
- advisor to President to Europe and said they were "ready to erupt"
- Edward House
- African American band leader, musician, and composer who created nearly 1,000 pieces in his career.
- Duke Ellington
- African American poet of the 20's who wrote about joys and difficulties of being black and american
- Langston Hughes
- against imperialism
- anti-imperialists
- agreement in 1927 by US secretary of state and france's foreign minister where the nations involved promised not to go to war or use the threat of it. -was eventually joined by 60 nations but failed because it was unrealistic.
- Kellogg-Briand Pact
- agreement to stop shooting at each other, or a cease fire.
- armistace
- agreements between nations often made in secret where countries pledge to support each other in event of war
- alliances
- agreements between nations often made in secret where countries pledge to support each other in event of war.
- alliances
- allied strategy to clock out Germany's food supply.
- Blockade.
- allowed citizens to put bills directly before the legislature.
- The Initiative
- allowed citizens to vote directly on a bill.
- The Referendum
- American factories where workers worked long hours for low wages in unsafe and unhealthy conditions.
- Sweatshops
- Americans who believe America should be an Empire
- imperialists
- Americans who believe America should be an Empire.
- Imperialists
- an American city devastated by a hurrican that prompted the people of the city to use a commission form of government.
- Galveston, Texas
- an american city devastated by a hurricane that prompted them to use a commission form of government
- Galveston, Texas
- an American city devastated by flood which encouraged the people of the city to use council manager form of government.
- Dayton, Florida
- an economic system that depends on large amounts of spending by individuals.
- COnsumer Economy
- area outside of Los Angelos which became center of movie making industry during the 20's.
- Hollywood.
- Battle of San Juan Hill
- overlooked Santiago
- battlefields between trenches and between armies
- No Man's Land
- becomes center for African Americans in the US.
- Harlem
- believed if they did movements while praying, were immune to bulets -called the boxers by the US
- Society of the Harmonious Fists
- best American fighter pilot after the war starts
- Edward Rickenbacker
- biggest and most famous political scandal of 1920's where private companies illegally drilled for oil on government lands of Wyoming and California. -unique rock formation at one of these sites.
- Teapot Dome
- biggest selling type of automobile ever produced in the US. -"versatile, durable, affordable, easy to repair, and come in any color you like as long as you like black"
- Model T
- Boxers rise up against foreigners and destroy goods
- Boxer Rebellion
- British Prime Minister
- David Lloyd George
- can't make any more moves, no winner.
- Stalemate.
- capitol of Philippines
- Manila
- Charles Lindbergh's plane that he flew across the Atlantic Ocean
- The Spirit of St. Louis
- city devastated by flood which encouraged council manager form of government
- Dayton, Florida
- coined "lost generation"
- Gertrude Stein
- commadore, naval officer
- Matthew Perry
- commander of US Pacific Fleet
- George Dewey
- communities that developed on outskirts of big cities mostly to improve transportation.
- suburbs.
- competitive swimmer who completely shatters male-set record of swimming the English Channel by 2 hours.
- Gertrude Ederle
- controversial scientific theory during the 1920's which said life developed over a hundred million years and from lower life.
- Evolution.
- country considered for a new canal that would connect the pacific and atlantic oceans
- Nicaragua
- country whose affairs are controlled by a stronger nation
- protectorate
- court orders prohibiting things such as striking.
- Injunction
- created by states to oversee companies -courts still backing big business owners
- Department of Labor
- created by states to oversee companies because the courts are still backing big business owners.
- Department of Labor
- crime prevalent in 1920's against African American victims. James Weldon Johnson tried to get federal laws passed against.
- lynching.
- decided to recreate the KKK after going to see the silent movie "the birth of a nation
- William Simmons
- Democrat running for office
- Woodrow Wilson
- develop self-rule and determination for all the people of Europe.
- 10th of 14 points.
- develops the Rough Riders
- Theodore Roosevelt
- didn't want the US to talk to other countries
- isolationists
- discovered bugs were the cause of malaria
- Walter Reed
- European nation recreated by treaty that ended the first World War
- Poland
- every nations' ships can go anywhere they want without being attacked.
- second of fourteen points.
- experienced gov. official who became 3rd republican president of the 1920's. -soon after being swork in, predicted an end to poverty in America, but his presidency would be an unhappy one due to the Great Depression.
- Herbert Hoover
- famous Italian gangster who ran a criminal empire built on smuggling alcohol, racketeering, prostitution, and murder.
- Al Capone
- Feb. 15, 1898
- USS Maine anchors in Havana
- federal law that made alcohol illegal -legal machinery to be able to try people.
- Volstead Act.
- fighting out of a ditch
- trench warfare
- fighting out of a ditch.
- Trench Warfare
