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Nativism |
Sentiment that only pure born Americans were trustworthy. Immigrants, especially from Eastern Europe, we're under suspicion because socialism and anarchism originated from that area as well. |
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Sacco and Venzetti |
A criminal case in which two potential anarchists were convicted for stealing and killing. The two men were Italian immigrants during the time of the Red Scare and were arguably convicted solely on the basis of prejudice. |
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Immigration Restriction Act of 1924 |
An act birthed out of congressional fear of mass immigration and nativist sentiment. The Act restricted immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe to only 2%. The act had a contradictory effect that allowed an influx of other minorities such as Spanish and Western Europeans. |
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Ku Klux Klan |
A revival of a racist group determined to preserve Americanism by ridding the US of African Americans, Roman Catholics, Jews, and immigrants. Although Klan participation was widespread, it did not hold much power and was only effective at a local level. |
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Scopes Trial |
A mock case to criticize Tennessee legislature that prohibited teachings of evolution in schools. The Tennessee Supreme Court excuse John Scopes and dropped the case, shortly thereafter William Jennings Bryan died of a heart failure induced by stress following the fuel at the trial. |
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Prohibition |
The legal banning of alcohol in the 18th amendment. The law was spawned out of moral righteousness. Temperance league members often targeted German-Americans which was successful because of post war grievances. |
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Al Capone |
A crime leader and gangster that use necessity for alcohol during the Prohibition to turn a profit off bootlegging, prostitution, and gambling in Chicago. His crime base empire led him to eleven years in prison but the only thing they could pin on him was tax evasion. |
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Flappers |
A name given to the new women's fashion that allowed young girls skirts flap about their ankles. The name epitomized the new unconservative behavior of independent young women exercising their freedom through unorthodox methods. |
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Margaret Sanger |
Organized American Birth Control League in response to witnessing struggling young mothers, miscarriages, and abortion. Her efforts laid the foundation for federal court to grant permission for physicians prescribe birth control in 1936. |
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Alice Paul |
A Quaker social worker that headed the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She encouraged unlawful demonstrations to achieve woman's suffrage. Also sought to eliminate all sexual discrimination. |
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Carrie Chapman Catt |
Headed any NAWSA and worked with President Woodrow Wilson to pass legislation on suffrage. Held fears that even women's suffrage would not affect the fact that the majority of the vote was with in lower classes and immigrants. |
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"New Negro" |
A movement within the African American community that embraced black heritage and expressed it through art and literacy forms. It cultivated Negro nationalism that some associated with separatist views. Prominent leader was Marcus Garvey. |
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Harlem Renaissance |
Expression of traditional African American culture through artistic and literary means. Prominent works included McKay's Harlem Shadows poems, Jean Toomer's Cane, and works by Langston Hughes. |
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Guinn v. U.S. |
A vctory for the NAACP in which the supreme court eradicated grandfather clause that prevented African Americans from voting in Oklahoma. Championed NAACP mission to improve the equality through legal action. |
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"Lost Generation" |
A lable dubbed by literary authors, given to young people that had survived World War I. These young people had survived the hardship of war. |
