Unit 8 Vocabulary Roaring 20s The Great Depression
Unit 8 Vocabulary Roaring 20’s, The Great Depression, FDR & the New Deal
The Roaring 20’s (part one) • Learning Target: I can use key words and visuals to demonstrate my knowledge of vocabulary terms pertaining to the Roaring 20’s. • Is your name on the divider?
Isolationism • Policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs.
Red Scare • Perceived threat of communism to Americans after the Russian Revolution (calling for a worldwide revolution to abolish capitalism). • Nativism-prejudice of foreigners.
Palmer Raids • Federal agents hunted down suspected Communists, socialists and anarchists. • 100’s of foreign-born radicals were deported without trials.
Sacco and Vanzetti • 1920 • Italian anarchist immigrants executed for robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guard. • Circumstantial evidence and prejudice.
Quota System • Maximum number of people who could enter the U. S. from foreign countries. • Discriminated against eastern and southern Europe (Catholics and Jews).
Tea Pot Dome Scandal • Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall’s secret leasing of oil-rich public land to private companies in return for money and land. • Corruption in Harding administration.
Scopes Trial • 1925 • Biology teacher was tried for challenging a Tennessee law that outlawed the teaching of evolution. • Fundamentalism-strict interpretation of the Bible.
Harlem Renaissance • Literary and artistic movement celebrating African-Americans in the 1920’s. • Duke Ellington-jazz • Langston Hughes-poet Louis Armstrong
Consumerism • Preoccupation with the purchasing of material goods. • Installment Plans
Prohibition 18 th Amendment- manufacture, sale and transportation of alcohol was illegal. Underfunded and led to speakeasies (hidden saloons), bootleggers (smuggled booze) and organized crime. 21 st Amendment-repealed 18 th A. Al Capone
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