1920's and WWII Flashcards
Bolshevik Revolution
communists come into power. 1917
Red Scare
WS bomb, deportation, response to B revolution
Mitchell Palmer
Quaker rounds up 6,000 people to question
Criminal Syndicalism Laws
Outlawed violence for social change
American Plan
Laborers call for all union shops
Nicola Vanzetti
victim of nativists, Italian anarchists, atheists and draft dodgers
Bible Belt
Southern belt supported by Klan
Emergency Quota Act of 1921
Races given quota for acceptance into US
Horace Kallen
defends melting pot of culture, “pluralism
Randolph Bourne
wanted mixing between races
18th Amendment
Prohibiton
Volstead Act
enforces 18t ammendment
Gangsterism
illegal selling alcohol gets huge monies
Al Capone
got all kinds of monies from gangsterism
St. Valentine’s Fay 1929
7 members of a rival gang killed
Racketeers
Extorted people with threat of breaking stuff
Charles A. Lindbergh
aviator hero, American first
Fundamentalism
reconciling religious ideals
Scopes Monkey Trial
Teacher chastized for teaching evolution
Consumer Economy
Buying on credit, people buy not for need, for consumerism
Frederick W. Taylor
Scientific management, emphasized stopwatch efficiency to improve factory performance
Henry Ford
assembly line, created Model T
Fordism
mass production assembly line