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APUSH 30
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Red Scare | nationwide fear of communists, socialists, anarchists, and other dissidents |
| 18th Amendment | outlawed the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors.” |
| Volstead Act | A federal act enforcing the eighteenth amendment, which prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. |
| Bible Belt | North Carolina west to Oklahoma and Texas, where Protestant Fundamentalism and belief in literal interpretation of the Bible were traditionally strongest. |
| Scopes Trial | highly publicized trial where John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school. |
| Fundamentalism | religious movement whose objectives were to return to the foundations of the faith and to influence state policy where evey word of the bible is interpretted literally |
| Modernism | A cultural movement in which people traditional ideals, promoted technology and the forms of expression that were different and unique to the current time. |
| “Lost Generation” | ex-patriot writers who left the United States to take part in the literary culture of cities such as Paris and London during the 1920's. |
| Harlem Renaissance | outburst of creative activity among African-Americans in all fields of art in the 1920s |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | an agreement between 15 nations outlawing war |
| Adkins v. Children’s Hospital | the Supreme Court ruled that a minimum wage law for women violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment because it abridged a citizen's right to freely contract labor. |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | a bribery incident which took place in the United States in 1922-1923, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding |
| Dawes Plan | A plan to revive the German economy |
| Hawley Smoot Tariff | A high tariff enacted in 1930 during the Great Depression to try to stimulate manufacturing and did not work |
| Black Tuesday | selling frenzy on Wall Street--days before stock prices had plunged to desperate levels. |
| Hoovervilles | Towns built by the homeless during the great depression |
| Bonus Expeditionary Force (army) | group of 20,000 veterans marched on Washington demanding immediate payment of bonuses earned during Word War I |
| A Mitchell Palmer | Attorney General who rounded up many suspects who were thought to be un-American and socialistic; he helped to increase the Red Scare; |
| Sacco & Vanzetti | Italian immigrants charged with murdering a guard and robbing a shoe factory |
| Al Capone | American gangster during the Roaring Twenties and the prohibition era. Known for smuggling and bootlegging liquor and the bribery of government figures |
| Henry Ford | businessman, founder of Ford Motor Company, father of modern assembly lines |
| Margaret Sanger | leader of the movement to legalize birth control during the early 1900's |
| Warren Harding | President who called for a return to normalcy following WWI. He had laissez-faire economic policies, and he wanted to remove the progressive ideals |
| Albert Fall | United States Senator from New Mexico and the Secretary of the Interior under President Warren G. Harding |
| Calvin Coolidge | repalced the corrupt Harding, restoring honesty to the presidency. He was a pro-buisness president, and continued the laissez-faire |
| Al Smith | elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in 1928 |
| Herbert Hoover | President - promising the American people prosperity and attempted to first deal with the Depression by trying to restore public faith in the community. |
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