Bomb Times Flashcards
(27 cards)
Teapot Dome scandal
Involved Secretary of the interior Albert fall, who accepted large sums of and valuable gifts from private oil companies. In exchange, fall allowed the companies to control government oil reserves in Elk hills California, and teapot Dome, Wyoming
Kellogg-Briand pact
An assignment that outlawed war.
Model T
Ford achieved his goal by building a sturdy reliable car called the Model T, nickname the tin Lizzie
Moving assembly line
This system used conveyer belts to move parts and partly assembled cars from one group of workers to another
Flappers
Young woman know as Flappers cut their hair and wore makeup and short dresses, openly challenged traditional ideas of how women were supposed to behave
Red Scare
A time of fear of Communist, or Reds
Twenty first Amendment
In 1933 state and federal governments responded with the Twenty first amendment which ended prohibition
19 amendment
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation
Great migration
Africans moving north for jobs
Marcus Garvey
Encourage black people around the world to express pride in their culture
Langston Hughes
Produced poems, plays, and novels about African American life
Henry Ford
An inventor and bossiness leader who invented the model T
Scopes trail
A science teacher who was put on trail for teaching evolution in what became know as the scopes trail
Emergency quota act
1921 limited the total number of immigrants allowed into the country
Talkie
Motion picture with sound
Anarchy
Are people opposed to organized government
Herbert Hoover
He was secretary of commerce
Georgia O’Keefe
Was well know for her detailed paintings of flowers and of the southwest
Lost Generation
Writers who criticized American artistic accomplishment
Expatriates
People who leave their home country to live elsewhere
Harlem Renaissance
A period of African Americans artists accomplishment
Hoover
Is a secretary of commerce
Fundamental
Characterized by belief in a literal, or word for word interpretation the Bible
Louis Armstrong
Jazz musician that experimented with versus sounds and rhythms to create new kind of music