Hill Unit 7
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 The Jungle | Upton Sinclair's book about the meat packing industry |
| assembly line | the method by which Ford was able to produce cars more quickly and cheaply, making his cars affordable for the average man |
| labor unions | workers who organized to bargain with employers for better wages and working conditions |
| northern cities | grew during the Great War due to influx of African Americans fleeing Southern discrimination and seeking jobs |
| Zimmerman Note | intercepted message from the German government to Mexico offering to help regain lost territories from the US. |
| flapper | the style that embodied the spirit of the liberation of women in the 1920's |
| Red Scare | the 1917 communist revolutions in Russia causing fear of communist takeover, suspicion of immigrants and mistrust of those with different political beliefs . |
| Espionage and Sedition Acts | used to punish Americans that spoke out against the war, draft, or war bonds by making it treason |
| Wartime labor shortage | gave women, African Americans, and Mexican Americans the opportunity to enter the workforce |
| The Great Migration | movement to urban areas in search of job opportunities and the promise of a better life |
| influenza | epidemic that killed many in 1917 and 1918 |
| America First | motto that promoted isolationism and neutrality |
| Harlem Renaissance | an artistic movement among African Americans |
| Fourteen Points | Wilson's peace plan |
| Prohibiton | 18th Amendment that banned Alcohol |
| The Lusitania | British ship sunk killing 120 Ams.; prompted Wilson to side with GB and France |
| communism | a type of government in which the government directs industry, fear of it drove the Red Scare that caused the US to limit immigration |
| woman suffrage | the goal of the woman's movement led by Stanton and Anthony, resulting in the 19th amendment that gave women the right to vote. |
| competing alliances and imperialist loyalties | contributed to WWI |
| new weapon technologies | reason for the horror of WWI. Poison gas, tanks, grenades and machine guns made for more casualties and made conditions in the trenches a living nightmare |
| The Roaring Twenties | Great social and economic changes were the hallmark of this decade. |
| demobilization | act of changing form a status of war to a status of peace, including disbanding or discharging troops, slowing production in factories. |
| Charles Lindbergh | United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1902-1974) |
| Klu Klux Klan | founded in the 1860s in the south; meant to control newly freed slaves through threats and violence; other targets: Catholics, Jews, immigrants and others thought to be un-American |
| Keep us out of war | reason Wilson was reelected in 1916 was this promise |
| convoy system | the protection of merchant ships from U-boat-German submarine-attacks by having the ships travel in large groups escorted by warships |
| immigration restrictions | caused by the widespread belief that immigrants held radical views and took jobs from native born Americans |
| Mass entertainment | radios and movies in the 1920's became popular as people had more money and leisure time |
| safe for democracy | Woodrow Wilson's argument that America needed to enter World War I |
| War Boards | Administrations that controlled such industries as Food, Fuel and Railroads. |
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