US History 10-1/10-2 quiz

supply-side economics

Trickle down economics Americans make more money in the government collect taxes at a lower rate

Charles Lindbergh

made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic

disposable income

money left after taking out taxes

Great Migration

movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920

Cotton Club

one of the most famous Harlem nightspots and a speakeasys

mass production

production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly lines

Langston Hughes

prolific writer who celebrated African American culture and life

Air Commerce Act

provided federal aid for building airports

mass media

radio, movies, newspapers, and magazines aimed at a broad audience

Blues

style of music evolving from African American spirituals and noted for its melancholy sound

bohemian

unconventional (in an artistic way)

Carl Sandburg

used common speech to glorify the Midwest

Edith Wharton

used irony and humor to criticize upper-class ignorance and pretensions

Emergency Quota Act

1921 Act that stipulates only 3% of 1910 immigrants are allowed in

Nativism

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

Model T

A cheap and simple car designed by Ford. It allowed for more Americans to own a car.

Teapot Dome Scandal

A government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921

Ohio Gang

A group of poker-playing, men that were friends of President Warren Harding.

Harlem Renaissance

A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished

Jazz

A style of dance music popular in the 1920s

Marcus Garvey

African American leader durin the 1920s who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and advocated mass migration of African Americans back to Africa. Was deported to Jamaica in 1927.

Zora Neale Hurston

African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance

radio

Created national communication

Herbert Hoover

Secretary of Cameron sought to promote economic growth he tried to build government regulation with his own philosophy

Andrew Mellon

Secretary of Treasury under President Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, who instituted a Republican policy of reduced government spending, lower taxes and cut taxes

Speakseaies

-Illegal bar who got their liquor from organized crimes

credit

Available for the 1920s for most Americans had considered debt shaming

Calvin Coolidge

Became president when Harding died of pneumonia. He was known for practicing a rigid economy in money and words

Creationism

Belief that all life was created by God.

Henery Ford

Car inventor and assebly line inventor

Evolution

Change over time

Washington Conference

Conference of the major powers to reduce naval armaments among Great Britain, Japan, France, Italy, and the United States

assembly line

Divided operations in simple tasks

Dawes Plan

Installment plan for Germany, a way to help them pay reparations

Wright Brothers

Invented the airplane

Ernest Hemingway

Lost Generation writer, spent much of his life in France, Spain, and Cuba during WWI, notable works include A Farewell to Arms

Fundamentalism

Name of Christian religious phamlets

cooperative individualism

President Hoover's policy of encouraging manufactures and distributors to form their own organizations and volunteer information to the federal government in an effort to stimulate the economy

Forney-McCumber Act

This act raised tariffs in an effort to protect American industry from foreign competition

Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)

United States and 14 on the countryside this packed although I had no binding for support this was called as a VICTORY OF PEACE

Willis Carrier

Wrote about life on great plans

National Origins Act

a federal law that made immigration restrictions permanent

F. Scott Fitzgerald

a novelist and chronicler of the jazz age. his wife, zelda and he were the "couple" of the decade but hit bottom during the depression. his noval THE GREAT GATSBY is considered a masterpiece about a gangster's pursuit of an unattainable rich girl.

Isolationism

a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.

open shop

a workplace where employees were not required to join a union

Welfare Capitalism

an economic and political system that combines a mostly market-based economy with extensive social welfare programs

Warden Harding

born in ohio, in 1898 voters elcted Harding to be the ohio general assembely

Claude McKay

first important writer of the Harlem Renaissance