The American Pageant (13th Edition) Chapter 31 Flashcards Flashcards

A list of terms, acts, policies, and more from Chapter 31 of the American Pageant 13th Edition APUSH textbook.

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