1920-1929, Out of Many: A History of the American People, 6th edition, APUSH
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| 1214586411 | Welfare Capitalism | A paternalistic system of labor relations emphasizing management responisibility for employee well-being | |
| 1214586412 | Open Shop | Factory or business employing workers whether or not they are union members; in practice, such a business usually refuses to hire union members and follows antiunion policies | |
| 1214586413 | Volstead Act | The 1920 law defining the liquor forbidden under the 18th Amendment and giving enforcement responsibilities to the Prohibition Bureau of the Department of the Treasury | |
| 1214586414 | Immigration Act | 1921 act setting a maximum of 357,000 new immigrants each year | |
| 1214586415 | League of Women Voters | League formed in 1920 advocating for women's rights, among them the right for women to serve on juries and equal pay law | |
| 1214586416 | Sheppard Towner Act | The first federal social welfare law, passed in 1921, providing federal funds for infant and maternity care | |
| 1214586417 | Harlem Renaissance | A new African American cultural awareness that flourished in literature, art, and music in the 1920s. | |
| 1214586418 | Robert and Helen Lynd | sociologists who did a community study in 1929 called "Middletown" that noted the dramatic impact of the car on the social life of people in Indiana | |
| 1214586419 | Henry Ford | pioneer of the car industry who established Ford Motor Company and created an assembly line for manufacturing cars, reducing the number of worker hours; also started a new wage scale (1915) and had produced 15 million cars by 1927 | |
| 1214586420 | General Motors | automobile company that competed with Ford Motor Company; created by Alfred P. Sloan and organized into separate divisions, each appealing to different groups of people (Cadillac, Chevrolet, etc.) | |
| 1214586421 | Empire State Building | New York skyscraper completed in 1931 that was the tallest building in the world at 1,250 feet; had room for 25,000 commercial and residential tenants in its 102 stories | |
| 1214586422 | McNary-Haugen Bills | series of complicated measures designed to prop up and stabilize farm prices; idea was for government to purchase farm surpluses and store them until prices rose or sell them on world market, leading to higher domestic farm prices; vetoed by Calvin Coolidge in 1927 | |
| 1214586423 | Samuel Goldwyn | founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM); born in Warsaw and had previously been a glove salesman | |
| 1214586424 | The Jazz Singer | the first "talkie," or movie with sound, which came out in 1927 through Warner Brothers; about the life of famous jazz musician Al Jolson | |
| 1214586425 | KDKA | the first commercial radio station in America (Pittsburgh); offered regular nightly broadcasts | |
| 1214586426 | National Broadcasting System | (NBC, CBS) made up of powerful radio networks; regular daily programming paid for and produced by commercial advertisers; publicized and commercialized American music and variety shows; national networks carried shows across country | |
| 1214586427 | George Herman (Babe) Ruth | one of the greatest sports heroes in American culture; called the "Sultan of Swat," he made baseball more popular than ever and was used by companies to advertise products | |
| 1214586428 | Negro National League | African American baseball league organized in 1920 by Andrew "Rube" Foster; first to achieve stability and last more than one season; played exhibition ball and frequently beat white major-league teams | |
| 1214586429 | Satchel Paige | African American baseball hero; pitcher who would have been a star of the major leagues if not for racial exclusion | |
| 1214586430 | Red Grange | famous football player who played for the University of Illinois; member of college and professional football hall of fame; Harold E. Grange | |
| 1214586431 | Jack Dempsey | famous boxer; heavyweight champion from 1919 to 1926; won first million dollar gate | |
| 1214586432 | Gene Tunney | famous boxer; heavyweight champion from 1926 to 1928 by defeating Dempsey twice | |
| 1214586433 | Johnny Weismuller | famous swimmer who broke records in the Olympics; nicknamed "Tarzan" | |
| 1214586434 | Flapper | woman of the 1920s portrayed as young and sexually aggressive, with bobbed hair, rouged cheeks, and short skirts; loved to dance to jazz music, smoke cigarettes in public, and drink bootlegged liquor; defied morals of earlier generations | |
| 1214586435 | Warren Harding | Republican 29th President of the United States (1921-1923) whose presidency was marred by many scandals, including the Teapot Dome scandal, and his delegation of power to his friends known as the "Ohio Gang;" died in office of a heart attack | |
| 1214586436 | Ohio Gang | group of politicians and industry leaders who were friends with President Warren Harding and were delegated a great deal of administrative power; involved in many scandals | |
| 1214586437 | Teapot Dome Scandal | bribery scandal during the Harding administration in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall received hundreds of thousands of dollars to secretly lease navy oil reserves in Teapot Dome, WY and Elk Hills, CA to two private oil developers | |
| 1214586438 | Calvin Coolidge | former Massachusetts governor who succeed Harding as the 30th President of the U.S. when he died (1923-1928); believed in as little government as possible and paving the way for American businessmen | |
| 1214586439 | Herbert Hoover | former secretary of commerce who became the 31st President of the U.S. in 1929; believed in individualism with a commitment to progressivism and actively assisting the business community, creating an "associative state;" also encouraged the creation and expansion of national trade associations | |
| 1214586440 | Dawes Plan | plan proposed by Herbert Hoover and Chicago banker Charles Dawes in 1924 to aid the recovery of the German economy after WWI; helped to stabilize Germany's currency and allowed it to make reparation payments to France and Great Britain | |
| 1214586441 | Charles Evan Hughes | former New York governor and Republican presidential candidate in 1916 who served as Harding's Secretary of State; initiated the Washington Conference in 1921 and sought "Pax Americana" through arms reduction | |
| 1214586442 | Washington Conference | international conference between U.S., Great Britain, Japan, Italy, France, and China in Washington D.C. called by the U.S. to limit the naval arms race and to work out security agreements in the Pacific area; resulted in the drafting and signing of several major and minor treaty agreements, such as the Five-Power Treaty | |
| 1214586443 | Kellogg-Briand Pact | (aka the Pact of Paris) 1928 agreement between the United States and France to eliminate war but was essentially meaningless since it lacked powers of enforcement and relied solely on the moral force of world opinion | |
| 1214586444 | Pax Americana | Latin phrase meaning "American Peace," a name applied to the historical concept of relative peace in the Western hemisphere | |
| 1214586445 | Speakeasies | saloons or nightclubs that illegally sold alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition Era | |
| 1214586446 | 21st Amendment | amendment passed on February 20, 1933 that repealed the 18th Amendment of Prohibition, making alcohol legal again | |
| 1214586447 | Al Capone | America's best-known gangster; involved in many illegal activities such as bootlegging alcohol, prostitution, murder, and gambling | |
| 1214586448 | Volstead Act | law passed in 1919 that established a Prohibition Bureau to enforce the 18th Amendment (ban on alcohol) | |
| 1214586449 | Red Scare | period between 1919 and 1920 that created a fear that Russian communism would take over the world; used to support anti-immigration | |
| 1214586450 | Johnson-Reed Immigration Act | law passed in 1924 that limited annual immigration from any European country to 2% of the number of that country's immigrants counted in the 1890 U.S. census | |
| 1214586451 | Immigration Restriction League | anti-immigration league founded in 1894 by Harvard graduates, including Henry Cabot Lodge and John Fiske, that encouraged fear among Americans and used scientific arguments, such as genetics and Darwinian evolution, to support immigration restriction | |
| 1214586452 | KKK | this revived league was born in Georgia in 1915 and inspired by the silent film "The Birth of a Nation;" held secret rituals & anti-black hostility, advocating white supremacy and 100% Americanism; also supported Prohibition and attacked birth control and Darwinism, making an enemy of the Catholic Church; stands for Ku Klux Klan | |
| 1214586453 | The Birth of a Nation | 1915 film produced by D.W. Griffith that depicted the original post-Civil War KKK as a heroic organization and inspired the new Klan | |
| 1214586454 | Scopes Trial | court case in 1925 in which biology teacher John Scopes broke Tennessee law by teaching Darwinism in a public school; arguments between defense attorney Clarence Darrow and prosecution William Jennings Bryan on teaching evolution made trial one of most publicized in decade; Scopes was convicted, but the verdict was later overturned | |
| 1214586455 | Sheppard-Towner Act | reform passed in 1921 that established the first federally funded health care program, providing funds to set up maternity and child care centers; supported senators Morris Sheppard and Horace Mann Towner and signed by President Harding | |
| 1214586456 | Amelia Earhart | renown female pilot who set many woman's flight records, including being the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, to fly solo across the Atlantic, and to fly nonstop coast-to-coast; disappeared in the Pacific during a flight around the world | |
| 1214586457 | Langston Hughes | prominent novelist and poet from the Harlem Renaissance; innovator of jazz poetry; wrote "I, Too, Sing America" | |
| 1214586458 | Harlem Renaissance | cultural movement centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City; many prominent African American artists emerged from this period | |
| 1214586459 | A. Philip Randolph | African American civil rights activist, labor leader, and socialist; founder of March on Washington Movement and Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; editor of the "Messenger" | |
| 1214586460 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | author of "This Side of Paradise" (1920) and "The Great Gatsby" (1925); joined the army in WWI but didn't go overseas; coined the phrase "the Jazz Age" | |
| 1214586461 | Ernest Hemingway | author of "The Sun Also Rises" (1926) and "A Farewell to Arms" (1929); served on front as ambulance driver during WWI |
