American Vision - Chapter 17

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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

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

A moving belt that divided operations into simple tasks and minimized unnecessary movement

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.

A workplace where employees are not required to join a union

A belief that one's native land needs to be protected against immigrants

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

A religious movement that felt that the nation was in moral decline.

The theory that human beings had developed from lower forms of life

The belief that God created the world

Secret bars where liquor was sold illegally during the Prohibition era

Artistic and unconventional

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

A style of music influenced by Dixieland blues and ragtime with syncopated rhythms and improvisation

The most famous nightclub in Harlem (that served only white customers). Ellington got his start there.

A soulful style of music that evolved from African American spirituals.

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