JAZZ AGE Flashcards
(47 cards)
cost of living
the cost of purchasing goods and services essential for survival
general strike
a strike involving all the workers in a particular region
red scare
promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents. In the United States, the First Red Scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism.
palmer raids
raids by the United States Department of Justice intended to capture, arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States. The raids and arrests occurred in November 1919 and January 1920 under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer.
deported
expel (a foreigner) from a country, typically on the grounds of illegal status or for having committed a crime.
j edgar hoover
he was given the responsibility of heading a new section of the Justice Department’s Bureau of Investigation called the General Intelligence Division. The G.I.D. was created to gather intelligence on radical groups, and was responsible for organizing the arrest or deportation of alleged seditionists. This led to the controversial “Palmer Raids,
supply side economics
lower taxes will boost the economy
isolationism
us policy of staying out of foreign affairs
kellog briand pact
was a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve “disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them.
dawes plan
take Weimar Germany out of hyperinflationand to return Weimar’s economy to some form of stability.
mass production
production of large quantities of goods using assembly lines and facotires
assembyly line
each person performs an assigned task
consumerism
social and economic order and ideology encourages the acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts
credit
the ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future.
mass advertising
Advertising designed to reach large numbers of people, for example through newspapers and television
welfare capitalism
companies enable employees to buy stocks and receive benefits like healthcare
open shop
workplac where workers not required to joina union
quiet depression
agricultural failure of many crops which forced farmers to begin selling what other almost non-profitable crops which they had little of to markets and a lot of them lost a lot of money trying to restore the failed crops.
sacco vanzetti
In 1921, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, both Italian-Americans, were convicted of robbery and murder. Although the arguments brought against them were mostly disproven in court, the fact that the two men were known radicals (and that their trial took place during the height of the Red Scare) prejudiced the judge and jury against them. On April 9, 1927, Sacco and Vanzetti’s final appeal was rejected, and the two were sentenced to death.
anarchist
a person who seeks to overturn by violence all constituted forms and institutions of society and government
emergency quota act
Annual allowable quotas for each country of origin were calculated at 3 percent of the total number of foreign-born persons from that country recorded in the 1910 United States Census.
national origins act
A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians.
fundamentalism
a form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture.
scopes trial
trial of john scopes v tennessee, creaitonism vs evolution
