Chapter 21 2
Terms
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- Anti-Semitic
- Hostility toward or or discrimination against Jews.
- Red Scare
- Fear of communisum, socialism, or other extreme ideas.
- Calvin Coolidge
- 30th u.s president 1923-1929. promoted big business and opposed social aid.
- General Strike
- A strike in which many unions participate in order to show worker unity.
- Uniformity of Product
- Making large numbers of identical products in an identical way.
- Warren G. Harding
- 29th president of the U.s. 1921-1923. Presided over a short administration marked by corruption.
- Flapper
- A type of young woman having a straight, slim silhouette and a fondness for dancing and brash actions; symbol for the jazz age.
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- Both immigrants and anarchists executed for a 1920 murder at Massachusetts factory, though believed to be innocent by many.
- Jazz Age
- term for the 1920's, perios marked by great popularity of jazz music, which was linked to changes in manners, morals, and fashion.
- Harlem Renaissance
- Period in the early 1900s during which the literary, musical, and artistic expression of African americans blosomed in Harlem.
- Assembly Line
- A line of workers each with a part to do making a final product to increase production.
- Nativism
- Practice of favoring native-born citizens over immigrants.
- Charles A. Lindbergh
- Aviator who bacame an international hero when he made the first solo fight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927.
- Marcus Garvey
- African American leader from 1919-1926 who urged African Americans to return to "motherland" of Africa; provided early inspiration for "black pride" movements.