Ch.10 The Jazz Age Flashcards
Capitalism
An economic system based on free enterprise based on private property
Deport
Expelled from the United States
Red Scare
A period where the government went after communists
Calvin Coolidge
Massachusetts governor that called the national guard to end the police force strike
Sacco and Vanzetti
Two Italians whose trial caused a fear of immigrants
Were accused killing two men in a robbery
Isolationism
A policy of staying out of world affairs
Warren G Harding
In his presidential campaign promised to return to normalcy
And promised isolationism
Teapot Dome
Became a symbol of corruption in the Harding administration
Installment buying
Buying products by promising to pay regular small amounts over a period of time
Henry Ford
Invented the model T a car for the average man
Flapper
A carefree young women with short bobbed hair
Heavy makeup
And a short skirt
Nativism
The belief that native born Americans are superior to foreigners
Quota system
An arrangement that placed a limit on the number of immigrants from each country
Evolution
The science theory that people evolved over a vast period of time
Prohibition
A total ban on the manufacturing , sale, and transportation of liquor
Harlem Renaissance
African American writers wrote amazing poetry,novels, and short stories
18th amendment
Established prohibition
21st amendment
Ended prohibition
Musicians and writers during the jazz age
Jazz became very popular because of African Americans like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington
African American writers like Langston Hughes
Social and cultural changes in the Jazz Age
Women could vote
Flappers
Newspaper and radio
Movies with sound
Basketball,baseball, and football popularity
The scopes trial
John Scopes taught evolution which was illegal
Parents were outraged and he went to jail
He was first convicted and then it was overturned
His trial caused much controversy
