Unit 5 Vocab Flashcards
1
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- A country that is owed more money by other countries than it owes to other countries
- The US became #1 (we were the richest and most industrialized country in the world)
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Creditor Nation
2
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- Hunt, crackdown, and fear of immigrants coming to the US spreading communism
- Intense fear of communism and other politically radical ideas
- Increases nativism (dislike of foreigners)
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Red Scare
3
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- The series of raids in the early 1920s initiated by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, against suspected radicals and communists
- Police arrested thousands of people who were radicals, and some who were just immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe–hundreds were deported
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Palmer Raids
4
Q
- Italian immigrants (and known anarchists that were arrested, tried, convicted, and executed for the robbery and murder of a factory paymaster
- The two were accused because an eyewitness said the suspects looked ‘Italian’
- The case lacked evidence but they were executed anyway
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Sacco and Vanzetti
5
Q
- Law that limited the number of immigrants coming to the US from Southern and Eastern Europe and Asia
- Established quotas for each separate nationality, based on America’s existing ethnic composition in 1890
- They chose this year because it was before the great wave of immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe
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National Origins Act of 1924
6
Q
- A secret society formed after the Civil War in to resist the emancipation of slaves
- Was revived in Georgia in 1915
- Hostile towards immigrants, Catholics, Jews, and African Americans
- Used lynching and other violent and terrorist tactics
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Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
7
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Pseudo-scientific (semi-scientific) belief that the human race could be improved by breeding
- Discouraged reproduction by persons that have genetic defects that could be passed down to children
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Eugenics
8
Q
- Republican President: 1921-1923 (29)
- Believed in less government in business and more business involvement in government
- Pro-business platform “A Return to Normalcy” promised tax revision, higher tariffs, limits on immigration, and some aid to farmers
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Warren G. Harding
9
Q
- African-American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist
- Probably the most powerful African American voice of his time, he captured the remarkable diversity of everyday African American life
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Langston Hughes
10
Q
- A scandal that involved Harding’s Interior Secretary leasing government oil reserves (In Teapot Dome, Wyoming) to private oilmen in return for bribes
- Became symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration
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Teapot Dome Scandal
11
Q
- Republican President: 1923-1929 (30)
- Pro-business–he moves away from progressivism
- “The business of America is business”
- Passed the “Mellon Income Tax Cuts” which lowered marginal tax rates on individuals and corporations
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Calvin Coolidge
12
Q
- A kind of music that began in New Orleans, Louisiana, and was influenced by African American musical traditions
- Moved North during the Great Migration
- Example: Louis Armstrong
- 1920’s also referred to as the Jazz Age
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Jazz Age
13
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- Republican President: 1929-1933 (31)
- Believed in “Rugged Individualism” - the idea that each individual should be able to help themselves out, and that the government does not need to involve itself in people’s economic lives nor in the national economics in general
- 8 months later, the stock market crash of 1929 occurred, and Hoover was blamed for the depressed economy
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Herbert Hoover
14
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- Believed black were exploited everywhere
- Promoted the idea of universal black nationalism and organized a “Back to Africa” movement
- Advocated not for integration, but for the separation of the races
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Marcus Garvey
15
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- American businessman, founder of Ford Motor Company
- Father of modern assembly lines and inventor credited with 161 patents
- Created the first affordable automobile
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Henry Ford
