Social Studies Vocab Flashcards
The great migration
During world war 1 large numbers of African Americans began leaving the south to take jobs in northern factories. This movement, called the great migration.
Anarchy
Anarchists are people opposed to organized government.
Talkies
A motion picture with sound
Hoover
The party chose his secretary of commerce, Herbert Hoover, as its nominee.
Model T
Ford achieved his goal by building a stable and sturdy car called the model T , nicknamed the Tin Lizzie.
Kellogg - Brian’s pact
In 1928 the United States and 14 other nations signed the Kellogg Brian’s pact , an agreement the outlawed war.
Warren G. Harding
They chose warren G. Harding, a senator from Ohio
Calvin Coolidge
Harding picked govener Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts as his running mate.
Teapot Dome scandal
What came to be known as the teapot dome scandal involved secretary of the interior Albert fall, who accepted large sums of money and valuable gifts from private oil reserves in elk hills, California, and teapot dome , Wyoming.
Red scare
A time of fear of communist, or reds
Georgia Okeeffe
Was a well known for her detailed paintings
Harlem Renaissance
A period of African American artistic accomplishment
Flapper
We’re women who cut their hair short, and wore makeup and short dresses, courageously challenged traditional ideas of how women were supposed to behave and act.
Scopes trial
The scopes trial was about a teacher who’s name was John t. Scopes he was put to trial because in the year 1925 it was against the law to teach evolution but he did it anyways
Lost generation
Writers who criticized American society in the 1920s thus became known as the lost generation
