Ch.10 The Jazz Age Flashcards
Capitalism
An economic system based on free enterprise based on private property
Deport
Expelled from the United States
Red Scare
A period where the government went after communists
Calvin Coolidge
Massachusetts governor that called the national guard to end the police force strike
Sacco and Vanzetti
Two Italians whose trial caused a fear of immigrants
Were accused killing two men in a robbery
Isolationism
A policy of staying out of world affairs
Warren G Harding
In his presidential campaign promised to return to normalcy
And promised isolationism
Teapot Dome
Became a symbol of corruption in the Harding administration
Installment buying
Buying products by promising to pay regular small amounts over a period of time
Henry Ford
Invented the model T a car for the average man
Flapper
A carefree young women with short bobbed hair
Heavy makeup
And a short skirt
Nativism
The belief that native born Americans are superior to foreigners
Quota system
An arrangement that placed a limit on the number of immigrants from each country
Evolution
The science theory that people evolved over a vast period of time
Prohibition
A total ban on the manufacturing , sale, and transportation of liquor
