The American Journey Chapter 24 6th Grade Social Studies
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| 1017229632 | Capitalism | An economic system based on private property and free enterprise. The Bolsheviks encouraged workers to overthrow this system anywhere it existed. | 1 | |
| 1017229633 | Anarchists | People who believe there should be no government. These people fanned the fears of "Bolshevism" - the idea of overthrowing capitalism - in the U.S. | 2 | |
| 1017229634 | Red Scare | 1919-1920; a period when the government went after "Reds," or Communists. Mitchell Palmer and Edgar Hoover ordered the arrest of people suspected of being Communists or anarchists and staged raids on "suspicious" groups. The government deported a few hundred aliens. In time, people realized this "danger" was greatly exaggerated. | 3 | |
| 1017229635 | Sacco and Vanzetti | July 1921; two Italian immigrants, Nicola _____ and Bartolomeo _______, were convicted of the crime of robbing a shoe store and killing two people and then sentenced to death. However, neither men had a criminal record, and after their execution, many believed they had nothing to do with the crime. This shows the feelings against foreigners and radicals. | 4 | |
| 1017229636 | Red Agitators | The accused steel strikers who demanded higher wages and an eight-hour work day. | 5 | |
| 1017229637 | Warren G. Harding | The Republican president in 1920; he created the "Ohio Gang," a group of his friends and political supporters whom he gave jobs in government to. Many of these appointees were unqualified, and some turned out to be corrupt. This president was not directly involved: "I have no trouble with my enemies," he said. "But my friends...they're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!" | 6 | |
| 1017229638 | Teapot Dome Scandal | 1922; the biggest scandal in the Harding administration involving Albert Fall. He secretly leased government oil reserves in California and _______ ____, Wyoming to the owners of two oil companies to receive over $400,000 in exchange. He was convicted of bribery and sent to prison, becoming the first cabinet member to go to jail. | 7 | |
| 1017229639 | Calvin Coolidge | This VP who took over after Harding's death had a nickname of "Silent Cal" and had a reputation for honesty. He replaced corrupted members of the Ohio Gang with honest officials. He believed that the best government was the least government and did not want the nation to join the League of Nations. Many other Americans supported this policy of isolationism. | 8 | |
| 1017229640 | Five-Power Treaty | February 1922; This treaty was signed between the U.S., Britain, Japan, France, and Italy to limit the size of the nations' navies. This marked the first time in modern history that world powers agreed to disarm. | 9 | |
| 1017229641 | Kellogg-Briand Pact | August 1928; the U.S. joined 14 other nations in signing the ________-_____ ____ which called for outlawing war. 48 other nations also soon signed this pact, but it lacked any means of enforcing peace. | 10 | |
| 1017229642 | Gross national product | 1922; the nation's _____ _______ ______ (GNP), the total value of all goods and services produced, was $70 billion. By 1929, it had risen to $100 billion. | 11 | |
| 1017229643 | Welfare capitalism | The steps of setting up safety programs that lowered the risk of death/injury, providing health and accident insurance, and encouraging workers to buy stock in the company were designed to link workers more closely to the company they worked for. | 12 | |
| 1017229644 | Installment buying | A type of buying where consumers could now buy products by promising to pay small, regular amounts over a period of time. One critic of installment buying called the system "a dollar down and a dollar a week forever." However, this new method boosted consumer spending. | 13 | |
| 1017229645 | Henry Ford | The pioneer in the manufacturing of affordable automobiles with his Model T, which was built using assembly line methods. The car was sturdy, reliable, inexpensive, and available only in black. In 1914, he announced that he would pay workers $5 a day. Workers were happy, and Ford had many customers. By 1924, his car sold for less than $300. | 14 | |
| 1017229646 | 19th Amendment | 1920; guaranteed women in all states the right to vote. | 15 | |
| 1017229647 | Flappers | Carefree women with short, "bobbed" hair, heavy makeup, a bold, boyish look, and short skirts. This symbolized the new "liberated" woman of the 1920s. | 16 | |
| 1017229648 | Mass media | Forms of communication, such as newspapers and radio, that reach millions of people. | 17 | |
| 1017229649 | Babe Ruth | An idolized baseball player who hit 60 home runs in 1927 - a record that would stand for 34 years. | 18 | |
| 1017229650 | Jazz Age | The era in the 1920s in which jazz captured the spirit of many people. It had its roots in the South in A-A work songs and music. It is a blend of ragtime and blues, and it uses dynamic rhythms and improvisations. (Trumpeter Louis Armstrong, pianist and composer Duke Ellington, and singer Bessie Smith) | 19 | |
| 1017229651 | Langston Hughes | An A-A writer who joined the growing number of African writers and artists who gathered in Harlem, and A-A section of NY City. | 20 | |
| 1017229652 | Harlem Renaissance | This movement was a burst of creativity in the 1920s - a flowering of A-A culture. This movement instilled an interest in African culture and pride in being African American. During this time, many writers wrote about A-A experience in novels, poems, and short stories. | 21 | |
| 1017229653 | The Lost Generation | Rootless American writers who were disappointed with American values and were in search of inspiration. These people, called expatriates (people who choose to live in another country) were called ____ ______ ________ by writer Gertrude Stein. | 22 | |
| 1017229654 | 18th Amendment | 1919; this amendment established Prohibition. | 23 | |
| 1017229655 | Prohibition | A total ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor throughout the U.S. | 24 | |
| 1017229656 | Volstead Act | An act passed by Congress to provide the means of enforcing Prohibition. | 25 | |
| 1017229657 | 21st Amendment | 1933; this amendment repealed the 18th Amendment - Prohibition. | 26 | |
| 1017229658 | Nativism | The belief that native-born Americans are superior to foreigners. With this the Ku Klux Klan took control by pressuring and scaring Catholics, Jews, immigrants, etc. | 27 | |
| 1017229659 | Emergency Quota Act | 1921; this act established a quota system - an arrangement placing a limit on the number of immigrants from each country. According to the act, only 3% of the total number of people in any national group already living in the U.S. would be admitted each year. | 28 | |
| 1017229660 | National Origins Act | 1924; a revision of the Emergency Quota Act - it reduced the annual country quota from 3 to 2% and based it on the census of 1890. The law excluded Japanese immigrants completely. Chinese immigrants were already excluded from a previous law. | 29 | |
| 1017229661 | Scopes Trial | A highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes deliberately violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school. He was convicted of breaking the law and fined $100, but the fundamentalists (saw evolution as a challenge to Christian beliefs) lost the larger battle. Clarence Darrow, in the defense of Scopes, made it seem as it William Jennings Bryan (strong opponent of evolution) wanted to impose his religious beliefs on the entire nation. | 30 |
