Chapter 10- Jazz Age Flashcards
Teapot Dome
Began in early 1922 when Hardings secretary of the interior, Albert B. Fall, secretly allowed private interests to lease lands containing US Navy oil reserves.
Investigation
the act or process of investigating or the condition of being investigated.
Revelations
something revealed or disclosed, especially a striking disclosure, as of something not before realized.
Supply-side economies
Trickle-down economies.
Americans would earn more money, and the government would collect more taxes at a lower rate than it would if it kept tax rates high.
Cooperative individualism
a field of economics, socialist economics, co-operative studies, and political economy, which is concerned with co-operatives.
Isolationism
A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, esp. the political affairs of other countries.
Charles G. Dawes
An American diplomat that negotiated an agreement with France, Britain, and Germany by which American banks would make loans to Germany that would enable it to make reparation payments
Charles Evan Houghs
Proposed a 10-year moratorium, or halt, on the construction of new warships
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Pact signed by the US and 14 other nations on August 27, 1928. The pact was hailed as a victory for peace.
Mass production
Large scale manufacturing dome with machinery, increased supply and reduced costs.
Assembly lines
A series of workers and machines in a factory by which a bunch of identical items are assembled.
Model T
Fords assembly lime product, the first automobile. It sold for $850 in 1908
Disposable
Something intended to be used once and then thrown away.
Charles Lindbergh
Former airmail pilot who made an amazing transatlantic solo flight in 1927, he showed the possibilities of aviation for commercial use.
Credit
The ability to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future: “unlimited credit”.
Welfare capitalism
the combination of a capitalist economic system with a welfare state
Open shop
A workplace where employees were not required to join a union
Nativism
The belief that ones native land needs to be protected from immigrants.
Anarchists
People who oppose all forms of government.
Source
A place, person, or thing from which something comes or can be obtained.
Emergency quota act
An act restricting annual admission to the US to only 3% of the total number of people in any ethnic group already living in the nation.
National origins act
Made immigration restriction a permanent policy. The law set quotas at 2% of each national policy.
Fundamentalism
A name derived from a series of Christian religious pamphlets titled “the fundamentals”
Evolution
Said that human beings developed from lower forms of life over the course of millions of years
Creationism
The belief that God created the world as described in the bible
Denied
To refuse to admit the truth of
Speakeasies
Secret bars that sold alcohol
Bohemian
Lifestyle of neighborhoods
Diverse
Showing a great deal of variety
Carl Sandburg
Used common speech to glorify the Midwest
Willa Cather
Wrote about life on the Great Plains
Ernest Hemingway
Heroic antihero who was a writer
F Scott Fitzgerald
Made the characters in the great gadsby
Edith Wharton
Used irony and humor to criticize upper class ignorance and pretensions
Mass media
Radio, movies, newspapers, and magazines aimed at a broad audience
Unify
To make or become united
Great migration
African Americans moving north
Harlem renaissance
Flowering of fir an American arts
Claude McKay
First important writer of the Harlem renaissance
Langston Hughes
Profiling, original, and versatile writer
Zora Hurston
Another important renaissance writer. Wrote Jonah’s Gourd Vine and Their Eyes Were Watching God
Jazz
A style of music influenced by Dixieland blues and ragtime.
Cotton club
The most famous nightclub in Harlem
Symbolize
To be a symbol of
Blues
A soulful style of music that evolved from African American spirituals.
Impact
Action of an object coming forcefully into another
Ongoing
Continuing and still in progress
Marcus Garvey
Captured the imagination of millions of African Americans with his negro nationalism.
