A list of terms, acts, policies, and more from Chapter 31 of the American Pageant 13th Edition APUSH textbook.
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| 783489460 | Isolationism in America | Denounced "radical" foreign ideas and "un-American" lifestyles. | 0 | |
| 783489461 | Red Scare | An anti-Communist movement that resulted in Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer using raids to round up and arrest about 6,000 suspected Communists. Severely cut black speech for a period. | 1 | |
| 783489462 | New Ku Klux Klan | Pro-White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, and anti-everything else. | 2 | |
| 783489463 | Emergency Quota Act of 1921 | Newcomers were restricted at any year to a quota, which was set at 3% of the people of their nationality who lived in the U.S. in 1910. Favored Slavs and southeastern Europeans. | 3 | |
| 783489465 | Immigration Act of 1924 | Cut the quota down to 2% and the origins base was shifted to that of 1890. Slammed the door on Japanese immigrants. | 4 | |
| 783489466 | 18th Amendment | Prohibited the sale of alcohol. Particularly supported by women and the Women's Christian Temperance Union. | 5 | |
| 783489467 | Gang Wars of Chicago | About 500 people were murdered. Captured criminals were rare, and convictions even rarer. | 6 | |
| 783489468 | Al Capone | Most infamous of U.S. gangsters. Perpetrated countless atrocities, including the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Caught for tax evasion. | 7 | |
| 783489469 | Gangs in the U.S. | Moved into activities such as prostitution, gambling, and narcotics. By 1930, their annual profit was around $12-18 billion. | 8 | |
| 783489470 | John Dewey | A professor at Columbia University who believed in "learning by doing" and believed that "education for life" should be the primary goal of school. | 9 | |
| 783489471 | Scopes "Monkey" Trial | A case in which John T. Scopes was charged with teaching evolution. William Jennings Bryan was among those who opposed him. | 10 | |
| 783489472 | New Churches of Christ | In establishing these, Christians began to reconcile their differences between religion and the findings of modern science. | 11 | |
| 783489473 | Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon | His tax policies favored the rapid expansion of capital investment. Also reduced the amount of taxes rich people had to pay, thrusting the burden onto the middle class. | 12 | |
| 783489474 | Henry Ford | Perfected the assembly-line production to where his Rouge River Plant was producing a finished automobile every ten seconds. | 13 | |
| 783489475 | Advertising in the Roaring 20s | Used techniques such as persuasion, ploy, seduction, and sex appeal to sell merchandise. | 14 | |
| 783489476 | Orville and Wilbur Wright | Flew the first airplane for 12 seconds over a distance of 120 feet at Kitty Hawk, N.C. | 15 | |
| 783489477 | Charles Lindbergh | First person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, going from New York to Paris. | 16 | |
| 783489478 | The Great Train Robbery | Marked the birth of the movie industry in 1903. | 17 | |
| 783489479 | The Jazz Singer | First movie with sound. | 18 | |
| 783489480 | Margaret Sanger | Led the birth-control movement. | 19 | |
| 783489481 | National Women's Party | Began in 1923 to campaign for an Equal Rights Amendment in the Constitution. | 20 | |
| 783489482 | Flappers | Young people that deviated from traditional practices. They were dancing and dressing more provocatively, as well as listening to the newly discovered genre of jazz music. | 21 |
