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APUSH Chapter 21/22
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| War Industry Board | A federal board to direct military production, allocation of resources, conversion of factories to war production, and setting of prices |
| Committee on Public Information | set up by Wilson to increases support for Americans participation in WW1 |
| Sedition Act of 1918 | Wartime law prohibiting words or behavior that might promote resistance to the United States or help in the cause of its enemies. |
| Great Migration | movement of African American from the rural south into Northern cities during and after WW1 |
| Fourteen Points | new world order from Wilson for peace negotiations at Versailles |
| League of Nations | international organization bringing world government to prevent future hostilities, Wilson after WW1, US not apart |
| Treaty of Versailles | ended WW1, redrew map of World, Germany is responsible for War and need to pay debt |
| Welfare Capitalism | labor relations stressed managements responsibility for employees well-being |
| Palmer Raids | raids led by General A. Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land |
| Harlem Renaissance | flourishing movement for African Americans |
| Lost Generation | phrase by Gertrude Stein to refer to young artists and writers who had suffered through World War I and felt alienated from America's mass-culture society |
| Consumer Credit | new forms of borrowing that triggered the Great Depression |
| Flappers | young woman who defied conventional standards of conduct flaunting liberated lifestyles |
| Marcus Garvey | African American who led the Universal Negro Improvement Association to help mobilize African American works and champion black separatism |
| Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti | Italian anarchists who were falsely accused of murder and executed for their crimes |