Chapter 24 - The Jazz Age Flashcards

24026304	capitalism	economic system based on private property and free enterprise
625608703	anarchists	people who believe there should be no government
675148556	deported	expelled from a country
675148557	red scare	a period when the government went after 'reds' - as communists were known - and others with radical views
675148558	a. mitchell palmer	attorney general who ordered the arrest of people suspected of being communists and anarchists
675148559	nicola sacco	italian immigrant who robbed a shoe factory and killed a guard
675148560	bartolomeo vanzetti	italian immigrant who robbed a shoe factory and killed a guard
675148561	a. philip randolph	african american who started the brotherhood of sleeping car porters
675148562	marcus garvey	founded the universal negro improvement association (unia) in 1914 to promote racial unity and pride; supported a 'back-to-africa' movement
675148564	leased	rented
675148565	albert fall	first cabinet officer ever to go to jail
675148566	ohio gang	the group of friends and political supports that president harding gave jobs to
675148567	charles forbes	one of the ohio gang; became head of the veterans bureau
675148568	harry daugherty	one of the ohio gang; became attorney general
675148569	albert fall	one of the ohio gang; because secretary of the interior
675148570	andrew mellon	a prominent pittsburgh banker and financier who headed the treasury department
675148571	herbert hoover	a talented organizer who headed the secretary of commerce
675148572	charles evans hughes	former supreme court justice became the secretary of state
675148574	five-power treaty	signed by united states, great britain, japan, france, and italy; it limited the size of nations' navies; treaty marked the first time in modern history that world powers agreed to disarm
675148575	nellie tayloe ross	woman who became governor in wyoming
675148576	miriam ferguson	woman who became governor in texas
675148577	recession	economic downturn
675148578	gross national product	the total value of all goods and services produced
675148579	productivity	the amount of work each worker does
675148580	assembly line	mass production technique that increased productivity and cut production costs
675148581	scientific management	hiring experts to study how goods could be produced more quickly
675148582	welfare capitalism	steps that were designed to link workers more closely to the company they worked for
675148583	installment buying	consumers would buy products by promising to pay small regular amounts over a period of time
675148584	detroit, michigan	became the automobile manufacturing center of the world
675148585	model t	car built using assembly line methods
675148586	henry ford	pioneer in the manufacture of affordable automobiles
675148587	model a	car that had better engineering and came in several colors
675148588	charles lindbergh	became the first person to fly alone across the atlantic ocean
675148589	spirit of st. louis	tiny, single-engine plane that lindbergh flew in
675148590	nineteenth amendment	guaranteed women in all states the right to vote
675148591	flappers	carefree young women with short, 'bobbed' hair, heavy makeup, and short skirts
675148592	mass media	forms of communication, such as newspapers and radio
675148593	babe ruth	great baseball outfielder
675148594	jazz age	during the 1920s people danced to the beat of a new kind of music which captured the spirit of the era
675148595	improvisation	new rhythms and melodies created during a performance
675148596	louis armstrong	trumpeter; american jazz musician
675148597	duke ellington	pianist and composer; american jazz musician
675148598	bessie smith	singer; american jazz musician
675148599	paul whiteman and bix biederbecke	white musicians who also played jazz and helped bring it to a wider audience
675148600	harlem renaissance	movement that instilled an interest in african culture and pride in being an african american
675148601	expatriates	people who choose to live in another country
675148602	gertrude stein	writer who called expatriates the lost generation
675148603	f. scott fitzgerald	novelist who joined the expatriates in europe; who wrote 'tender is the night'
675148604	ernest hemingway	famous american expatriate novelist who wrote 'the sun also rises' and 'a farewell to arms'
675148605	sinclair lewis	novelist who stayed in american and wrote about life in america
675148606	sherwood anderson	influential american writer; most famous book 'winesburg, ohio'
675148607	prohibition	a total ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor through the united states
675148608	eighteenth amendment	established prohibition
675148609	volstead act	to provide the means of enforcing prohibition
675148610	bootlegging	making and selling illegal alcohol
675148611	twenty-first amendment	repealed prohibition in 1933
675148612	nativism	the belief that native-born americans are superior to foreigners
675148613	al 'scarface' capone	crime boss who controlled organized crime and local politics in chicago
675148614	emergency quota act	act that established a quota system on the number of immigrants from each country
675148615	quota system	an arrangement placing a limit on the number of immigrants from each country
675148616	national origins act	act that reduced the annual country quota from 3 to 2 percent and based it on the census of 1890
675148617	evolution	the scientific theory that humans evolved over vast periods of time
675148619	william jennings bryan	famous democratic candidate for president in 1896, 1900 and 1908 and a strong opponent of evolution
675148620	clarence darrow	defended many radicals and labor union members
675148621	alfred e. smtih	governor of new york; son of immigrants and a man of the city; he opposed prohibition and championed the poor and the working class