Vocabulary Section 2 Flashcards
Arthur Zimmerman
German under secretary for foreign affairs. Sent the Zimmerman Telegram.
Great Migration
Large scale movement of African Americans from the South to the North during and after World War I where jobs were more plentiful.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Women’s rights campaigner for women’s right to vote. Headed the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
League of Nations
Organization created after WWI to promote global peace and cooperation.
Marcus Garvey
Leader of “Pan-Africanism”. A Jamaican immigrant. Leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).
Kellogg-Briand Pact
the Pact of Paris, an agreement signed by 62 nations that agreed not to use war as an instrument of national policy. Pact was initiated by the U.S. and France.
Scopes Trial
Highly publicized 1925 trial of Tennessee high school science teacher John Scopes, who was found guilty of teaching the theory of evolution in violation of state law.
Claude McKay
a Jamaican-American writer and poet, who was a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
Harlem Renaissance
An African American cultural and arts movement of the 1920s centers in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City.
Nicola Sacco/Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Two Italian immigrants with anarchist sympathies. Sentenced to death for killing two payroll clerks. Many thought the trial was unfair and the judge was biased because of their anarchist sympathies.
Teapot Dome Scandal
Bribery scandal, uncovered in 1924, implicating Secretary of the Interior Fall, a member of President Harding’s cabinet who took bribes in return for lucrative leases to drill for oil on government-owned land.
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
U.S. government agency created by the Agricultural Adjustment Act to provide credit, loans, and other subsidies to farmers.
Glass-Steagall Banking Act
Congressional act that established strict guidelines for banking operations and expanded the power of the Federal Reserve System. The act also founded the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Some regulations associated with the original act were repealed in 1999, leading to mismanagement and scandals in the banking and finance industries, and the recession beginning around 2009.
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Congressional act that created the Securities and Exchange Commission to regulate stock markets and activities by brokers.
Frances Townsend
was an American physician who was best known for his revolving old-age pension proposal during the Great Depression. Known as the “Townsend Plan”, this proposal influenced the establishment of the Roosevelt administration’s Social Security system.