Unit 5, Chapter 30 Flashcards
Red scare (1919-1920)
- period of intense anti-communism
- Palmer raids resulted in 6000 deportation of people suspected of subversive activities
criminal Syndicalism laws (1919-1920)
- passed by many states during the red scare
- laws were outlawed the mere advocacy of violence to secure social change
American plan
- Business oriented approach to worker relation
- managers sought to strengthen their communication with workers and to offer benefits like pension and insurance
Immigrants act of 1924 (National origins act)
-establish quotas for immigration to the US
18th amendment (volstad act) (1919)
- prohibited the manufacture sale and transportation of alcohol
- prohabition
Racketeers
- people who obtain money illegally
- invaded the ranks of labor during the 1920s
Bible belt
- region of the American south
- protestant fundamentalism and belief in literal interpretation of the Bible where traditionally strongest here
Fundamentalism
-protestant Christian movement emphasizing the literal truth of the Bible and opposing religious modernism which sought to reconcile religion and science
Scientific management
- A system of industrial management created and promoted in the early 20th century by Frederick W Taylor
- emphasized stopwatch efficiency to improve factory performance
- gained immense popularity across the United States and Europe
Fordism
-System of assembly line manufacturing and mass production named after Henry ford
Henry ford
- founder of ford motor company and the model T car
United Negro improvement Association (UNIA)
-A black nationalist organization founded in 1914 By Marcus garvey in order to promote resettlement of African-Americans to their African homeland and to stimulate a vigorous separate black Economy within the US
Modernism
- artistic and cultural movement
- revolt against comfortable Victorian standard and excepted change chance contingency uncertainty and fragmentation
Lost generation
-creative Circle of expatriate American artists and writers including Ernest Hemingway, f. Scott fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein
Harlem Renaissance
- A creative outpouring among African-American writers JAzz musicians, and social thinkers centered around Harlem in the 1920s
- celebrated black culture and advocated for a New Negro in American social political and intellectual life