U.S. History (Roaring Twenties)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Prohibition | the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment |
| Laissez faire | the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs |
| Republican Presidents | Harding, Coolidge, Hoover; all conservative, laissez-faire, pro-business, pro-tariff, isolationist |
| Scopes "Monkey" Trial | 1925, the trial that pitted the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution against teaching Bible creationism |
| Clarence Darrow | Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools. |
| 1920s | Prohibition, KKK, Cars, Movies, Flappers, Jazz, Harlem, Scopes, Period of false economic prosperity, women cut the hair, jazz becomes popluar |
| Harlem Renaissance | a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished |
| The Great Migration | The migration of thousands of African-Americans from the South to the North. African Americans were looking to escape the problems of racism in the South and felt they could seek out better jobs and an overall better life in the North. |
| Sacco and Vanzetti Trial | The Sacco and Vanzetti trial was a high profile legal case in the 19th Century involving two Italian Americans, Sacco and Vanzetti that were accused of murdering a guard at their shoe factory in Massachusetts. It was a politically charged trial because the two accused were of Italian descent, as well as the fact that they were anarchists. This was of a particular issue, because at the time many in the United States had anti- immigrant sentiments, as well as the Judge in the case uttered comments that were prejudiced against those who were anarchists |
| Red Scare | a period of general fear of communists |
| Palmer Raids | A 1920 operation coordinated by Attorney General Mitchel Palmer in which federal marshals raided the homes of suspected radicals and the headquarters of radical organization in 32 cities |
| Nativism | a policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones |
| Isolationism | a policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations |
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