Chapter 11 Flashcards
A period of rising stock markets
Bull market
The rapid manufacture of large numbers of identical products.
Mass Production
A period of falling stock prices
Bear market
The transfer of oil from the navy to the interior department who sold it later on.
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
In 1928 this pact was a later attempt to prevent war. It was a treaty drew up to outlaw war as an instrument of national policy.
Kellogg-briand pact
In 1924 an agreement that arranged U.S. Loans to Germany. It enabled Germany to make reparation payments to Britain and France. Which then helped France and Britain to repay there debts to the United States.
Dawes Plan
Organization that was formed to terrorize African Americans,but was later reconstructed to target Jews,Catholics,and immigrants along with African Americans.
Ku Klux Klan
Was ratified by the states in 1919 that forbade the manufacture,distribution and the sale of alcohol anywhere in the United States.
The Eighteenth Amendment
In 1925 Fundamentalism and modernism clashed head on at this trial. The issue was the theory of evolution designed by Charles Darwin. Tennessee passed a law making it illegal to teach his theroy in state public schools.
Scopes Trial
Was passed to repeal the eighteenth amendment that prohibited alcohol .
21st amendment