MEAD UNIT 7
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- PHILOSOPHY
- the general beliefs, concepts, or attitudes of an individual
- ALBERT B. FALL
- harding's secretary of the interior
- COOPERATIVE INDIVIDUALISM
- encouraged manufacturers and distributors to form their own trade associations and voluntarily share information with the government
- SUPPLY-SIDE ECONOMICS
- taxes are kept low so consumers can invest extra money, causing the economy to grow. As the economy grew, americans earned more money, and the government collected more taxes
- EMERGE
- to be made known
- ASSEMBLY LINE
- divided operations into simple tasks that unskilled workers could do and cut unnecessary motion to a minimum
- BLUES
- a soulful style of music that evolved from african american spirituals
- CARL SANDBURG
- chicago poet that used common speech to glorify the midwest
- ASPECT
- refers to a portion of something with great influence or size
- HARLEM RENAISSANCE
- flowering of african american arts
- TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL
- secretary fall secretly allowed private interests to lease lands containing U.S. navy oil reserves.
- SOUGHT
- to have gone in search of change
- COTTON CLUB
- one of the most famous harlem nightspots
- CHARLES LINDBERGH
- airmail pilot who demonstrated the possibilities of aviation and won popular support for commercial flight
- IMMUNITY
- freedom from prosecution
- OHIO GANG
- warren g. harding and his old poker buddies
- CHARLES G. DAWES
- an american banker and diplomate who negotiated an agreement with france, britain and germany over foreign loans
- DIVERSE
- being different from one another
- NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY
- establish a permanent network of stations to distribute daily programs
- INNOVATION
- a new or ideal method
- POLICE POWERS
- a governments power to control people and property in the interest of public safety, heath, welfare and morals
- ETHIC
- a set of moral values to live by
- MASS PRODUCTION
- large scale product manufacturing usually done by machinery
- EMERGENCY QUOTA ACT
- a temporary quota system, limiting immigration
- NORMALACY
- returning to a normal life after the war
- MORATORIUM
- pause on construction
- EUGENICS
- a pseudo-science that deals with improving hereditary traits
- PRINCIPLE
- a system of thinking that follows a strict set of rules
- PROGRESSIVE PARTY
- formed by defectors from both parties and farm, labor and religous activists
- CREATIONISM
- the belief that God created the world, as described in the Bible
- LANGSTON HUGHES
- one of the most prolific, original, and versatile writers of the harlem renassiance
- ERNEST HEMINGWAY
- a writer whose fiction presented a new literary style characterized by direct, simple, and concise prose
- INTEGRITY
- a way of behaving that follows a strict moral code
- KU KLUX KLAN
- used threats and violence to intimidate african americans, catholics, jews, immigrants and other groups believed to represent "un-american values"
- ISOLATIONISM
- country is left alone to pursue prosperity
- EUGENE O'NEILL
- an innovative playwright who portrayed realistic characters and situations
- AUTHOR
- someone who creates original material
- ANARCHIST
- people who oppose all forms of government
- CONSUMER
- a person who buys what is produced by an economy
- MASS MEDIA
- radio, movies, newspapers, and magazines aimed at a broad audience
- OPEN SHOP
- workplace where employees were not required to join a union
- BOHEMIAN
- an artistic and unconventional lifestyle
- PERCENT
- one part of one hundred
- ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE
- wisconsin senator who was the canidate for the progressive party
- F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
- a famous author who created colorful, glamorous characters who chased futile dreams in The Great Gatsby
- MODEL T
- first assembly-line product made my carmaker henry ford
- CHARLES EVANS HUGHES
- secretary of state who proposed a 10 year pause on the production of major new warships
- CLAUDE MCKAY
- first important writer os the harlem renaissance
- SOURCE
- the point at which something is provided
- MARCUS GARVEY
- a dynamic black leader from jamaica who called for "Negro Nationalism"
- FUNDAMENTALISM
- a religious movement which was named after the fundamentals, written by oil millionaire lyman stewart
- GREAT MIGRATION
- hundreds of thousands of african americans moved from the rural south to industrial cities in the north
- STRUCTURE
- a system of organization that arranges something large into smaller portions to create order
- KELLOGG-BRIAND PACT
- treaty proposed in 1928 that outlawed war
- FLAPPER
- a young, dramatic, stylish and unconventional woman
- REVERSE
- for a situation to completely change
- COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM
- assembled a coast to coast network of stations to rival NBC
- IMPACT
- to make a lasting impression on an individual or group
- PRESUME
- to believe something without factual evidence
- JAZZ
- a style of music influenced by dixieland music and ragtime
- UNIFY
- to bring a group together with a similar goal or thought pattern
- SPEAKEASIES
- secret bars where people could purchase illegal alcohol.
- EVOLUTION
- theory that human beings had developed from lower forms of life over the course of millions of years