Chapter 24
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The New Era
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 auto-mobile | industry that was a new and rapidly growing |
| consolidation | unification; process of becoming firmer or stronger;many industries were practicing this |
| minimum comfort level | 66% of Americans weren't able to reach their... |
| welfare capitalism | the notion of using benefits to gain workers' loyalty, improve worker morale |
| William Green | second president of the AFL, an advocate of labor-management cooperation |
| pink collar jobs | low paying jobs for women |
| barrios | where many Mexican and Mexican Americans of the California region ended up living |
| American Plan | Policy promoted by business leaders during the 1920's that called for open shops. |
| Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters | Union founded to help African Americans who worked for the Pullman Company. |
| down | During the new era union membership went... |
| tenantry | those that didn't leave the farm were forced into... |
| American Farm Bureau Federation | organization dedicated to promoting, protecting, and representing the interests of farmers |
| parity | government-supported level for the prices of agricultural products, intended to keep farmers' incomes steady. |
| McNary-Haugen Bill | sought to keep agricultural prices high by having the government buy surpluses to sell abroad |
| expand | Automobile's helped to ______ people's geographical horizon |
| The Man Nobody Knows | book written by Bruce Barton and talked about how Jesus was the father of modern business. |
| The Saturday Evening Post | first magazine to achieve a general interest, mass audience |
| the readers digest | magazine that responded to modern life |
| Time | magazine that conducted the news |
| The Jazz Singer | First movie with sound |
| Will Hays | Established a set of moral standards for the movies which lasted until the 60's |
| Motion Picture Association | created to make Hollywood more responsible in movies it produced |
| KDKA | First commercial broadcasting station |
| Abundant Religion | book written by a liberal protestant spokesman |
| new professional woman | used to describe the women that were joining the workplace |
| compassionate marriage | In theory gave wives laws and rank, but in reality it gave domestic tyranny |
| Margaret Sanger | headed an organized birth control movement, she championed the use of contraceptives |
| flapper | young woman in the 1920s who rebelled against traditional ways of thinking and acting |
| Sheppard-Towner Act | Provided federal funding for maternity and child care |
| self-made man | this image had a decline due to new proof shown that hard work doesn't always advance you |
| lost Americans | lost sight of morals and values |
| debunkers | people who expose/throw out old ideas |
| Harlem Renaissance | period when African-American achievements in art, music, and literature flourished. |
| agrarians | most of southerners were called this due to their society being an alternative to industrialization |
| noble experiment | what prohibition was also called |
| Al Capone | United States gangster who terrorized Chicago during Prohibition |
| rural protestants | group that continued to defend prohibition and supported religious fundamentalism |
| Eighteenth Amendment | prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages |
| National Origins Act | law that placed strict quotas on immigration into the US |
| Second Ku Klux Klan | organization against immigrants, Jews, and Catholics, supported "native" Americanism. |
| Charles Darwin | Religious fundamentalists opposed the evolutionary teachings of... |
| William Jennings Bryan | Lawyer for the state of TN in the Scopes Trial |
| Scopes Trial | trial that pitted the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution against teaching Bible creationism |
| Al Smith | 4 time gov. of NY; democratic candidate against Hoover; very 'wet', Catholic, and urban |
| Warren G. Harding | president who called for a return to normalcy following WWI |
| Calvin Coolidge | Became president when Harding died. Tried to clean up scandals, business prospered |
| Ohio Gang | Harding's "advisors" who played poker, drank, and smoked with him in the White House |
| TeaPot Dome | Naval oil reserve in Wyoming that gave its name to one of the major Harding administration scandals |
| 1924 Election | Between Calvin Coolidge (R) and John Davis (D), Coolidge won be receiving almost double the vote |
| Herbert Hoover | President of the United States when the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed |
| Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co. | Ruling: The Child Labor Tax law is unconstitutional |
| Adkins v. Children's Hospital | Supreme Court that overturns minimum wage for women |
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