Module 8 U.S. History Flashcards
What is fundamentalism?
A protestant religious movement grounded in the belief that all the stories and details in the Bible are literally true.
What is consumerism?
A preoccupation with the purchasing of material goods or acquiring goods in ever-greater amounts.
What is a flapper?
One of the free-thinking young women who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of 1920s.
What is Urban Sprawl?
The unplanned and uncontrolled spreading of cities into surrounding regions.
What is an Installment plan?
An arrangement in which a purchaser pays over an extended time, without having to put down much money at the time of purchase.
What is xenophobia?
An unreasoned fear of things or people seen as foreign or strange.
What is a quota system?
A system that sets limits on how many immigrants from various countries a nation will admit each year.
What happened in the Scopes Trial?
Sensational 1925 court case in which the biology teacher John T. Scopes was tried for challenging a Tennessee law that outlawed the teaching of evolution.
Who is John Scopes?
A young biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee who challenged the Tennessee law that made it a crime to teach Evolution.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
flowering of African American artistic creativity during the 1920s, centered in the Harlem Community of New York City.
Who is Langston Hughes?
A Harlem Renaissance poet, who was born in Missouri. His poems describe the difficult lives of working class African Americans.
What was prohibition?
The banning of the manufacture, sale, and possession of alcoholic beverages.
The period from 1920 to 1933 during which the Eighteenth Amendment forbidding the manufacture and sale of alcohol was in force in the United States.
Who is Babe Ruth?
An American baseball player. New York Yankees slugger Babe Ruth was the home run king during the 1920s.
What happened in the Tulsa Massacre?
On May 31, 1921, newspapers reported, without proof, that a young African-American man named Dick Rowland assaulted a white woman, Sarah Page, in an elevator. Rowland was taken to the county courthouse and placed in a jail cell. Hundreds of angry white men, many of them armed, gathered at the courthouse. Talk of lynching was in the air. A massacre between African Americans and Whites occurs. On June 1, 1921 in Tulsa, a mob of white Tulsans attacked the predominantly black Greenwood. More than 300 African Americans had been killed.
What were the underlying causes of the Tulsa Massacre?
The jealousy of the successful Black Wall Street and and the Dick Rowland elevator incident.
