Lesson 3

New Deal

BD: A plan by President Franklin Roosevelt intended to bring economic relief, recovery, and reforms to the country after the Great Depression. MD: FDR plan.

Nativism

BD: A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones. MD: liking your race over foreign ones.

Ku Klux Klan

BD: A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights. MD: White supremacy organization that intimidated blacks out of their newly found liberties.

Marcus Garvey

BD: African American leader during the 1920s who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and advocated mass migration of African Americans back to Africa. MD: African-American who founded the "Back to Africa" movement.

19th Amendment

BD: Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections. MD: Gave women the right to vote.

Harlem Renaissance

BD: Celebration of African American culture through music, poetry, and writing. Key people - Langston Hughes, Claude Monet, Zora Neale Hurston. MD: A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished

Flappers

BD: Were liberal women in the 1920s who wore dresses with shorter hemlines, put on more makeup, danced the latest crazes, and generally assumed that she had the same political and social rights as any man. MD: Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion.

Great Migration

BD: movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920. MD: Movement of African Americans from the South to the North for jobs.