APUSHch23 Flashcards
Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act
(1922) Federal law that raised tariff rates on manufactured goods and levied high duties on imported agricultural goods.
Teapot Dome
Albert B. Fall (Secretary of the Interior) leased oil rich land in Teapot Dome, Wyoming, and Elk Hills, California, to oilmen Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny, but not until Fall had received a “loan” of $100,000 form Doheny and about three times that amount from Sinclair. This scandal occurred during Harding’s presidency.
open shop
A company with a labor agreement under which union membership cannot be required as a condition of employment.
welfare capitalism
An approach to labor relations in which companies meet some of their workers’ needs (improved benefits and higher wages) without prompting by unions, thus preventing strikes and keeping productivity high
jazz age
Youth expressed their rebellion against their elders’ culture by dancing to this music. Brought north by African American musicians, this music became a symbol of the new and modern culture of the cities.
consumerism (autos, radio, movies)
Automobiles became more affordable; there was an average of one car per family in the US. The production of the automobile became important to industry and changed all that Americans did socially. The radio enabled people from one end of the country to the other to listen to the same pograms. 1st radio station in 1920. The movie industry became big in the 1920s and movie starts were idolized. By 1929, 80 million tickets were sold each week.
Charles Lindbergh
Mail service pilot who became a celebrity when he made the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927; he later became a leading isolationist.
Margaret Sanger
American leader of the movement to legalize birth control during the early 1900’s. As a nurse in the poor sections of New York City, she had seen the suffering caused by unwanted pregnancy. Founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S. and the American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood.
modernism
Modernists took a historical and critical view of the Bible and believed they could accept Darwin’s theory of evolution without abandoning their religious.
fundamentalism
Those who condemned the modernists and taught that every word of the Bible must be accepted as literally true. God created the universe in seven days.
Billy Sunday and Aimee Semple McPherson
Radio revivalists; Billy Sunday attacked drinking, gambling, and dancing. Aimee McPherson condemned the evils of communism and jazz music.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
He belonged to the Lost Generation of Writers. He wrote the famous novel “The Great Gatsby” which explored the glamour and cruelty of an achievement-oriented society. Expressed disillusionment with the ideals of an earlier time and with the materialism of a business-oriented culture.
Ernest Hemingway
Wrote “A Farewell to Arms”, “The Old Man and the Sea”, and “The Sun Also Rises”; American writer and journalist; veteran of WWI, belongs to literary movement called ‘The Lost Generation’
Sinclair Lewis
American novelist who satirized middle-class America in his 22 works, including Babbitt (1922) and Elmer Gantry (1927). He was the first American to receive (1930) a Nobel Prize for literature. Part of the Lost Generation.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Architect-“form follows function”-led to skyscrapers with little decoration
