Unit 7 Standing at Armageddon Flashcards
Attorney general during the height of the Red Scare (1919-1920) who led raids against suspected radicals; reacting to terrorist bombings, fear of Bolshevism, and his own presidential aspirations, Palmer arrested 6,000 people and deported over 500.
A. Mitchell Palmer
Influential black leader; his “Atlanta Compromise” speech (1895) proposed blacks accept social and political segregation in return for economic opportunities in agriculture and vocational areas. He received money from whites and built Tuskegee Institute into a powerful educational and political machine.
Booker T. Washington
Taciturn, pro-business president (1923-1929) who took over after Harding’s death, restored honesty to government, and accelerated the tax cutting and antiregulation policies of his predecessor; his laissez-faire policies brought short-term prosperity from 1923 to 1929.
Calvin Coolidge
President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association; Catt led the organization when it achieved passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 and later organized the League of Women Voters.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Mail service pilot who became a celebrity when he made the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927; a symbol of the vanishing individualistic hero of the frontier who was honest, modest, and self-reliant, he later became a leading isolationist.
Charles Lindbergh
Prohibited the sale, transportation, and manufacture of alcohol; part of rural America’s attempt to blunt the societal influence of the cities, it was called the “Noble Experiment” until it was repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment (1933).
Eighteenth Amendment (1919)
Established a national banking system for the first time since the 1830s; designed to combat the “money trust,” it created 12 regional banks that regulated interest rates, money supply, and provided an elastic credit system throughout the country.
Federal Reserve Act (1913)
Movement of southern, rural blacks to northern cities starting around 1915 and continuing through much of the twentieth century; blacks left the South as the cotton economy declined and Jim Crow persisted. Thousands came north for wartime jobs in large cities during World Wars I and 11.
Great Migration
Black artistic movement in New York City in the 1920s, when writers, poets, painters, and musicians came together to express feelings and experiences, especially about the injustices of Jim Crow; leading figures of the movement included Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Duke Ellington, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes.
Harlem Renaissance
Crusading journalist who wrote The History of the Standard Oil Company a critical expose that documented john D. Rockefeller’s ruthlessness and questionable business tactics.
Ida Tarbell
Revolutionary industrial union founded in 1905 and led by “Big Bill” Haywood that worked to overthrow capitalism; during World War I, the government pressured the group, and by 1919, it was in serious decline.
Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies)
Social worker and leader in the settlement house movement; she founded Hull House in 1889, which helped improve the lives of poor immigrants in Chicago, and in 1931 shared the Nobel Peace Prize.
Jane Addams
Reconstruction-era organization that was revived in 1915 and rose to political power in the mid-1920s when membership reached 4 to 5 million; opposed to blacks, Catholics, Jews, and immigrants, its membership was rural, white, native-born, and Protestant.
Ku Klux Klan
Leading literary figure of the Harlem Renaissance who wrote verse, essays, and 32 books; he helped define tie black experience in America for over four decades.
Langston Hughes
A leading muckraking journalist who exposed political corruption in the cities; best known for IUs The Shame of Cities (1904), he was also a regular contributor to McClure’s magazine.
Lincoln Steffens
