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33 Cards in this Set
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Red scare |
Intense fear of communism |
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Communism |
All means of production are owned and controlled by the state means of production are factories railroads mines shopping lines banks etc. but also include it or housing education and medical sector |
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Socialism |
The state owns and Controls the major means of production such as airports railroads steel industry ports etc. usually includes guaranteed hire education medical care pensions etc. |
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Xenophobia |
Unreasonable fear of strangers borders and those who are different |
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Sacco and Vanzetti |
Immigrants were accused of murder in the 1920s and found guilty and executed with a little evidence; the case looked like xenophobia |
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recession |
Period whare economic growth slows down the level of output may actually decrease unemployment is likely to increase firms may lose confidence and reduce investments and individuals may save rather than spend |
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Scientific management |
Approach to improving efficiency and which experts looked at every step of the manufacturing process trying to find ways to reduce time effort and expense |
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Consumerism |
Large scale buying much of it on credit |
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Assembly-line |
Arrangement of equipment and workers sandwich work passes from operation operation in direct line you until the product is assembled |
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Laissez-faire economic policy |
Minimum governmental interference in the economic affairs of individuals and society |
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Kellogg-Briand treaty |
Made a war ilegal as a tool of national policy allowing only defensive war |
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Washington Naval disarmament conference |
Meeting held in 1921 in 1922 where world leaders are agreed to limit construction of warships |
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Five power naval treaty |
Signed as part of the Washington Naval conference US Great Britain Japan France and Italy so the tenure suspension of construction of the large ships and said quotas for the number of shifts each country could build |
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Dawes plan 1924 |
It rescheduled German reparations payments and open the way for further American private loans to Germany |
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Disarmament |
The reduction or withdrawl of military forces and weapons |
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Fordney-McCumber act |
Pushed tariff rates on manufactured goods to an all-time high help to US manufacturers by enabling them to keep price is high and increase profits |
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scopes trial |
1925 child of a Tennessee school teacher for teaching Darwins theory of evolution |
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Fundamentalism |
Movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherences to a set of basic principles |
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Revivalism |
A period of Increased spiritual interest or renewal in the life of a church congression |
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Ku Klux Klan |
Which promoted hatred of African-Americans Jews Catholics and immigrants |
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Prohibition |
Forbidden by law of the manufacture transportation and sale of alcohol |
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Volstead act |
Defined the liquor for bidden under the 18th amendment gave enforcement responsibilities to the prohibition Breweru of the department of the treasury |
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18th amendment |
And the manufacture just ration and sale of alcohol in the US |
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21st amendment |
Repealed the 18th amendment |
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Organize crime |
Category of transportational national or logical groupings of highly centralized Interprises run by criminals who intend to engage in illegal activities for money and profit |
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Quota laws-1921 and 1924 |
Please ask greatly limited immigration to 3% of the number of foreign born persons from a given nation counted in the 1910 census the second of the surpassed the Congress ensure the discrimination against Southern and Eastern Europe p.m. immigrants by subtle setting the photos of 2% based on the senses of 1890 |
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19th amendment |
Stabley S-t that no citizen can be denied the right to vote on account of sex; granted women the ability to vote |
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Flapper |
Young woman from the 1920s who defied traditional rules of conduct and dress |
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Harlem resistance |
In the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and Music and literature flourished |
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Marcus Garvey |
And American leader during the 1920s who founded the universal Nigro improvement Association and advocated miss the mass migration of African-Americans back to Africa was deported to Jamaica 19 |
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Race riots |
increase in violence during and after WWI do two African-American migration labor and housing storages racism and post for demobilization |
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Indian citizenship act of 1924 |
Granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the US |
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Standard of living |
The messes do use comfort and luxury or enjoyed or aspired to buy an individual or group |
