Social studies vocab Flashcards
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In may 1925 a Dayton, Tennessee, high school science teacher name john t. Scopes was put on trial for teaching evolution in what became known as the scopes trial.
Scopes trial
During World War I large numbers of African Americans began leaving the south to take jobs in northern factories. This movement called great migration.
Great migration
In 1928 the United States and 14 other nations signed the Kellogg briand pact an agreement that outlawed war.
Kellogg briand act
Anarchists are people opposed to organized government.
Anarchy
A motion picture with sound
Talkie
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
19 amendment
The transportation or importation into any state territory or possession of United States to delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors in violation of laws therefor is hearby prohibited.
21 amendment
He produced poems plays and novels about African American life.
Langston Hughes
Was a secretary of commerce and defeated democrat Alfred E smith in the 1928 election.
Herbert Hoover
Was a governor of Massachusetts got picked as a running mate for warren Harding.
Calvin Coolidge
The eighteenth amendment which outlawed the manufacture sale and transportation of achoholic beverages went into effect in 1920.
Prohibition
He encouraged people to take price in their race.
Marcus Garvey
A time of fear of communism.
The red scare
She was well known for her detailed paintings of flowers and of the southwest.
Georgia o keeffe
A period of African American artistic accomplishment
Harlem renaissance
Girls that cut their hair short and wore makeup and short dresses openly challenging traditional ideas of how women were supposed to behave.
Flappers
He was a very talented musician
Louis Armstrong
This system used conveyer belts to move parts and partly assembled cars from one group of workers to another.
Moving assembly line
This act limited the number of immigrants allowed into the us.
The emergency quota act
Ford achieved his goal by building a sturdy and reliable car nicknamed the tin Lizzie.
Model t
The creator of ford automotives
Henry ford
Writers who criticized American society in the 1920s thus became known as the lost generation.
Lost generation
People who leave their home country to live elsewhere.
Expatriates
Involved secretary of the interior Albert fall who accepted the large sums of money and valuable gifts from private oil companies.
Teapot dome scandal
