US History CH 21
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- Censorship
- To examine in order toe suppress or delete anything considered objectionable.
- Red Scare
- Fear of communism, socialism, or so-called extreme ideas.
- Scopes Trial
- Tennessee trial of 1925 taht challenged the law against teaching evolution in public schools.
- Assembly Line
- a line of workers at different stations that added parts to a main product. Increased the This system worked for Ford when he produced cars.
- Klu Klux Klan(KKK)
- Organization formed in teh South in 1866, which used lynching and violence to intimidate adn control African Americans and others.
- General Strike
- A strke in which many unions participate in order to show worker unity.
- Anti-Semitic
- Hostility toward or discrimination against Jews.
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- Immigrant and anarchist executed for a 1920 murder at a Massachusetts factory, through believed to be innocent by many.
- Jazz Age
- Term for the 1920s, a period marked by the great popularity of jass music, which was linked to changes in manners, morals, and fashions.
- Marcus garvey
- African American leader from 1919 to 1926 who urged African Americans to return to "motherland" of Africa; Provided early inspiration from "black pride" movements.
- Flapper
- A type of woman having a straight, slim silhouette and a fondness for dancing and brash actions; a symbol of the Jazz Age.
- fundamentalism
- Christian religious movement based on pamplets issued between 1909 and 1914;holds that every word in the Bible was inspired by God.
- Harlem Renaissance
- Period in the early 1900s during which the literay, musical, and artistic expression of African Americans blossomed in Harlem.
- Uniformity of Product
- Each product should be identical.
- Warren G. Harding
- Ohio sneator. Promised a "return to normalcy." 29th president of the United States.
- Charles A. Lindbergh
- Stund flyer adn airmail pilot. Became an international hero when he made the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
- Nativism
- A movement to limit immigration that first appeared in the 1800s. It revived after the war. Nativists claimed that people from foreign countries could never be fully loyal to the US.
- Calvin Coolidge
- Thritieth President of the United States, 1923-1929; promoted bigt business and opposed social aid.
- Suffrage 19th Amendment
- The right to vote.