Test Words On 10-26-17 Flashcards
19th amendment
Voting Rights, the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex
Enforcement, congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislative
21st amendment
- 18th amendment repealed, the eighteen article of amendment to the constitution of the United state is hereby repealed
Langston Hughes
Harlem Renaissance writers include
Langston Hughes
Marcus Garvey
During the 1910s and 1920s Marcus Garvey encouraged black around the world to express pride in the culture
Red scare
A time of fear of communist, or reds
Georgia O’Keefe
Was well known for her detailed paintings
Harlem Renaissance
A period of African armistice accomplishment
Flapper
Young women known as flappers cut their hair short and wore makeup and short dresses, openly challenging traditional ideas of how women were supposed to behave
Scopes trial
In may 1925 a Dayton, Tennessee, High school science teacher named John T. Scopes was put of trail for teaching evolution in what became known as the scopes trial
Coolidge
Warren G. Hardings running mate
Lost generation
Writers who criticized Americans society in the 1920 thus became known as the lost generation
Great migration
During WW1 large # of African Americans began leaving the south to take jobs in northern factories
Kellogg- Briand act
In 1928 the United States
Anarchy
People opposed to organized government
Prohibition
An issue that highlighted this conflict was prohibition
Tea pot dome scandal
What came to be known as the teapot dome scandal involved secretary of the interior of Albert fall who accepted large amounts of money and accepted gifts from privet oil companies
Emergency quota act
The emergency quota act of 1921 limited the total number of immigrants allowed into the country
Jazz age
An explosion in the popularity of jazz music gave the decade another nickname such as the Jazz age
Talkie
Talkie is a motion picture or sound
Model T
Fords achievement was to build a sturdy and realizable car called the model T and he achieved his goal
Louis Armstrong
A jazz musician
Moving assembly line
This system used conveyer belts to move a pice through a group of workers who each had there own part
Expatriates
People who leave there home or contrary to live some where else
