American Vision - Chapter 17

Terms in this set (27)

Teapot Dome
Harding administration scandal of government leasing Navy oil lands to private companies
Supply-Side Economies
The idea that low tax rates increase government tax revenue; "trickle-down economies"
Cooperative Individualism
Herbert Hoover's philosophy of encouraging businesses to form information-sharing trade associations
Isolationism
The idea that the US will be safer and more prosperous if it stays out of world affairs
Charles G. Dawes
American diplomat who negotiated the Dawes Plan
Charles Evans Hughes
Early 1920's Secretary of State who proposed the moratorium on warships at the Washington Conference
Kellogg-Briand Pact
A pact in the late 1920's by Secretary of State Kellogg and French Foreign Minister Briand that was a treaty to 'outlaw war'. It had no binding force.
Mass Production
Large-scale manufacturing done with machinery
Assembly line
A moving belt that divided operations into simple tasks and minimized unnecessary movement
Model T
Ford's assembly line automobile, also called the "Tin Lizzie" or "Flivver". It first came out in 1908.
Welfare Capitalism
Companies allowing workers to buy stock, participate in profit sharing, and receive medical care and pensions.
Open Shop
A workplace where employees are not required to join a union
Nativism
A belief that one's native land needs to be protected against immigrants
Anarchists
People who oppose all forms of government
Emergency Quota Act
An act restricting annual admission to the United States to only 3% of the total number of people in any ethnic group in the nation
National Origins Act
A law that set quotas at 2% of each national group in the US 1890 census
Fundamentalism
A religious movement that felt that the nation was in moral decline.
Evolution
The theory that human beings had developed from lower forms of life
Creationism
The belief that God created the world
Speakeasies
Secret bars where liquor was sold illegally during the Prohibition era
Bohemian
Artistic and unconventional
Mass Media
Radio, movies, newspapers, and magazines aimed at a broad audience
Great Migration
The move of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the South to industrial cities in the North
Harlem Renaissance
A 'flowering' of African American arts, originating in the hearth of the Harlem borough of New York
Jazz
A style of music influenced by Dixieland blues and ragtime with syncopated rhythms and improvisation
Cotton Club
The most famous nightclub in Harlem (that served only white customers). Ellington got his start there.
Blues
A soulful style of music that evolved from African American spirituals.
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