American History Chapter 12 Vocabulary

Warren G. Harding

Ohio senator who assumed presidency in 1921

Ohio Gang

President Harding's' poker playing cronies who caused a great deal of embarrassment

Charles Evans Hughes

Secretary of State who urged that no more warships be built for 10 years

Teapot Dome Scandal

Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Falls secret leasing of oil rich public land to private companies in return for money and land

isolationism

a policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs

nativism

a prejudice against foreign-born people

communism

an economic and political system based on a single-party government ruled by a dictatorship

installment plan

enabled people to buy goods over an extended period without having to put down much money at the time of purchase

John L. Lewis

leader of United Mine Workers of America

Albert B. Fall

managed to get the oil reserves transferred from the navy to the Interior Department

anarchists

people who opposed any form of government

Calvin Coolidge

president after Hoover. he favored government policies that would keep taxes down and business profits up, and give business more available credit in order to expand

Fordney-McCumber Tariff

raised taxes on some U.S. imports up to 60%

quota system

set up by the Emergency Quota Act and established the maximum number of people who could enter the U.S. from each foreign country

urban sprawl

the unplanned and uncontrolled spreading of cities into surrounding regions

Sacco and Vanzetti

were arrested and charged with the robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guard in South Baltimore, Massachusetts