1920s Flashcards
(33 cards)
Boston police strike
protesting the disapproval of organizing a nation
Demobilization
discharge from military service
communisum
property and wealth are owned by all rather than individual
capitalism
individuals own capital goods v.s government
red scare
communism is about to spread in america
palmer raids
red scare- attorney general organizing arrests and deportations
sharecropping
don’t own the land you work reason why they left the south
19th amendment
women’s right to vote
anarchism
bombings- get rid of government
butler act
law in tennessee banned the teaching of evalution
flappers
embrace freedom
“Push factors” of migration
famine, poverty, discrimination, political oppression, economic
“Pull factors” of migration
job opportunities, political and religious freedom
assimilation
becoming similar to others by taking in their customs and cultures
nativism
favoring “native-born” over immigrants
quota system
establishes a percentage of people that are allowed to come into the united states
chicago race riot- 1919
hit with rock on the beach (red summer)
tulsa massacre
resentment from white people, black man and white women on elevator
immigration act of 1924
limited the amount of immigrants allowed in the U.S
volstead act
law that enforces prohibition
ku klux klan
terrorist movement against african americans
great migration
moving out of the south
a mitchell palmer
attorney general of the united states- in charge of palmer riots
18th amendment
alcohol prohibition