Chapter 22 Flashcards
Brotherhood of Sleeping Cars Porters
It was one of the few labor unions led by African Americans. It later cultivated many leaders of the Civil Rights movement.
Issei and Nisei
Were the terms for Japanese Immigrants and their children from the early 20th Century
Margaret Sanger
Influential leader for Birth-Control
Flappers
These women liberated lifestyles and reliance on their own wages showed the decline of family orientated, Victorian female responsibility
“American Plan”/Open Shop
Companies protected workers’ so-called right to refuse to join a union: it resulted in a weaker labor movement
A. Philip Randolph
Labor leader of the virtually all Black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union, which represented train workers.
Harlem Renaissance
In order to save their richness of their heritage and resist white racism and stereotyping they drew heavily from their African roots.
Langston Hughes
He was encouraging African Americans to take pride in their racial heritage
Ku Klux Klan
An organization that feared anyone who posed a challenge to traditional values. They used public violence, such as arson and lynching to intimidate African Americans, Jews, Catholics and foreigners
National Origins Act of 1924
Consequences of the act was that it banned immigration from East Asia entirely and introduced a quota system that favored northern Europeans
Scopes “Monkey Trial”
John Scopes attempted to teach evolution in Tennessee in violation of the Butler Act that banned the teaching of evolution. The American Civil Liberties Union defended him, while famous christians like William Jennings Bryan attacked him
Al Smith
He was the first Catholic to receive the nomination of a major political party. He supported repealing prohibition
Teapot Dome Scandal
President Warren G. Harding was involved in the case of corruption
Herbert Hoover
Continued the political stability of the era: he was the third consecutive Republican president to serve.
Lost Generation
“The repudiation of Wilsonian idealism, the restoration of business as usual, the growing emphasis on materialism and consumerism suggested that the war itself had been a fraud.”
