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American plan |
A business oriented approach to worker relations popular among firms in the 1920's to defeat unionization. |
Managers sought to strengthen their communication with workers and offer benefits like pensions and insurance . |
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Bible belt |
The region of The American south extending roughly from North Carolina west to Oklahoma and Texas where Protestant fundamentalism and belief in literal interpretation of the bible were traditionally strongest . |
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Bolshevik revolution |
The second stage of Russian revolution in November 1917 when Vladimir Lenin and his Bolshevik party seized power and established a communist state. |
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Criminal syndicalism laws |
Passed by many states during the red scare of 1919-1920 these nefarious laws outlawed the mere advocacy of violence to secure social change. |
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Eighteenth amendment |
Ratified in 1919 this constitutional amendment prohibited the manufacture sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages |
Ushered the prohibition era |
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Fordism |
A system of assembly line manufacturing and mass production named after Henry ford founder of ford motor company and developer of the model t car |
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Fundamentalism |
A Protestant Christian movement emphasizing the literal truth of the bible and opposing religious modernism which sought to reconcile religion and science |
Especially strong in the baptist church |
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Immigration act of 1924 |
Also known as the "national origins act" this law established quotas for immigration to the United States . |
Immigrants from southern and Eastern Europe were sharply curtailed, while immigrants from Asia were shut out altogether. |
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Ku klux klan |
An extremist, paramilitary, right wing secret society founded in the mid nineteenth century and revived during the 1920's. |
Anti-foreign, anti-black, anti-Jewish , etc Klan style violence and democratic legislation succeeded in virtually disenfranchising all southern blacks. |
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Racketeers |
People who obtain money illegally by fraud, bootlegging , gambling, or threats of violence. |
Invaded the ranks of labor during the 1920's |
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Racketeers |
People who obtain money illegally by fraud, bootlegging , gambling, or threats of violence. |
Invaded the ranks of labor during the 1920's |
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Red scare |
A period of intense anti-communism lasting from 1919-1920. |
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Racketeers |
People who obtain money illegally by fraud, bootlegging , gambling, or threats of violence. |
Invaded the ranks of labor during the 1920's |
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Red scare |
A period of intense anti-communism lasting from 1919-1920. |
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Scientific management |
A system of industrial management created and promoted in the early twentieth century by Fredrick w Taylor, emphasizing stopwatch efficiency to improve factory performance . |
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United negro improvement association |
A black nationalist organization founded in 1914 by the Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey in order to promote resettlement of African Americans to their "African homeland" and to stimulate a vigorous separate black economy within the United States |
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Volatead act |
A federal act enforcing the eighteenth amendment, which prohibited the manufacture, sale , and transportation of alcoholic beverages . |
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Nativism |
The belief that native Americans are superior to foreigners |
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Cultural pluralism |
Groups do not have to lose their distinctive characteristics , live side by side , each groups contribute in different ways, groups, like different vegetables in a salad, remain identifiable but create a new large whole . |
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Cultural pluralism |
Groups do not have to lose their distinctive characteristics , live side by side , each groups contribute in different ways, groups, like different vegetables in a salad, remain identifiable but create a new large whole . |
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Progressive education |
John Dewey led movement that focused on personal growth, not mastery of body of knowledge and learning through experience. |
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Sacco and Vanzetti case |
Nicola Sacco and Bartolommeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants Charged with murdering a guard and a shoe factory in Braintree;mass. The trial lasted from 1920-1927 |
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The birth of a nation |
One of the first classic full length "moving pictures " it glorified the kkk and defamed blacks and carpetbaggers |
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National origins quota system |
This law reduced the annual quota to 2% based on the 1890 census. Because the population of southern and Eastern European countries was so low it severely limited their immigration rates |
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Melting pot |
A society in which various racial, ethnic, and cultural groups are blended together |
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Lindbergh law |
This established the death penalty in certain cases interstate kidnapping |
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Lindbergh law |
This established the death penalty in certain cases interstate kidnapping |
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The man nobody knows |
1925 book by advertiser Bruce Barton-set fourth provocative thesis that Jesus was the greatest adman of all time |
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Lindbergh law |
This established the death penalty in certain cases interstate kidnapping |
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The man nobody knows |
1925 book by advertiser Bruce Barton-set fourth provocative thesis that Jesus was the greatest adman of all time |
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Model T |
First affordable car built by Henry ford ; sturdy,reliable,inexpensive, only came in black |
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Amos n Andy |
One of the first comedy shows on the radio. |
Help bring families and neighborhoods together |
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Equal rights amendment |
Constitutional amendment passed by congress but never ratified that would have banned discrimination on the basis of gender. |
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Harlem renaissance |
A flower of African American culture in the 1920's; instilled Interest in African American culture and pride in being an African American |
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Harlem renaissance |
A flower of African American culture in the 1920's; instilled Interest in African American culture and pride in being an African American |
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The weary blues |
The speaker describes an evening of listening to a blues musician in Harlem and gives readers an appreciation of the state of mind of the blues musician in the poem. |
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The sun also rises |
A novel written by earnest Hemingway that examines the lives of American expatriates in Europe |
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The sun also rises |
A novel written by earnest Hemingway that examines the lives of American expatriates in Europe |
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Winesburg, Ohio |
Novel by Sherwood Anderson |
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The sun also rises |
A novel written by earnest Hemingway that examines the lives of American expatriates in Europe |
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Winesburg, Ohio |
Novel by Sherwood Anderson |
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Babbitt |
A selfsatisfied person concerned chiefly with business and middle class ideals like material success:; a member of the American working class whose unthinking attachment to its business and social ideals is too much to make him a model of narrow mindedness and self satisfaction: after George f Babbitt , the main character in the novel Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis |
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The sun also rises |
A novel written by earnest Hemingway that examines the lives of American expatriates in Europe |
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Winesburg, Ohio |
Novel by Sherwood Anderson |
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Babbitt |
A selfsatisfied person concerned chiefly with business and middle class ideals like material success:; a member of the American working class whose unthinking attachment to its business and social ideals is too much to make him a model of narrow mindedness and self satisfaction: after George f Babbitt , the main character in the novel Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis |
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The sound and the fury |
Novel by William Faulkner; a southerner family on the decline crumbles completely when one of his members has a child out of wedlock |
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The sun also rises |
A novel written by earnest Hemingway that examines the lives of American expatriates in Europe |
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Winesburg, Ohio |
Novel by Sherwood Anderson |
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Babbitt |
A selfsatisfied person concerned chiefly with business and middle class ideals like material success:; a member of the American working class whose unthinking attachment to its business and social ideals is too much to make him a model of narrow mindedness and self satisfaction: after George f Babbitt , the main character in the novel Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis |
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The sound and the fury |
Novel by William Faulkner; a southerner family on the decline crumbles completely when one of his members has a child out of wedlock |
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The great gatsby |
A novel depicting the picturesque idea of the self made American man and entrepreneur who rose from obscurity, written by f. Scott Fitzgerald |
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