AP US History Chapter 22 Flashcards
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13899766317 | Great Migration | the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest, and West from 1916 to 1970 | 0 | |
13899766318 | Marcus Garvey | the first President - General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League | 1 | |
13899766319 | Red Scare | promotion of widespread fear by a society or state about a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism | 2 | |
13899770047 | Palmer Raids | a series of raids conducted in November 1919 and January 1920 during the First Red Scare | 3 | |
13899770048 | Sacco and Vanzetti | two Italian born American anarchists who were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the April 15, 1920 armed robbery | 4 | |
13899775249 | "Welfare Capitalism" | the practice of businesses providing welfare services to their employees | 5 | |
13899775250 | "American Plan" | a system of paying a single daily rate that covers the room and all meals | 6 | |
13899778486 | "Parity" | the state or condition of being equal, especially regarding status or pay | 7 | |
13899778487 | "Flappers" | a generation of young western women in 1920's who came out of their usual dressing style and roles to be free like men | 8 | |
13899778488 | "Lost Generation" | the generation reaching maturity during and just after World War I | 9 | |
13899783097 | "Harlem Renaissance" | an art movement created by African Americans to spread their feelings in the form of poetry | 10 | |
13899783098 | "Noble Experiment" | the term for prohibition laws against the sale and production of alcohol in order in to cure many of society's evils | 11 | |
13899788869 | National Origins Act of 1924 | a law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system national quotas that discriminated against Europe and Asians | 12 | |
13899788870 | The New Klan | major rebirth of the ku klux klan in the 1920 | 13 | |
13899793344 | D.W. Griffith: Birth of a Nation | controversial but highly influential and innovative silent film, which demonstrated the power of film propaganda and KKK. | 14 | |
13899793345 | Scopes Trial | a highly publicized trial where Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school | 15 | |
13899796314 | Teapot Dome Scandal | a scandal of the early 1920's surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the Secretary of the Interior | 16 |