Unit 5, Chapter 30

Question 1

Red scare (1919-1920)

Answer 1

• period of intense anti-communism

- Palmer raids resulted in 6000 deportation of people suspected of subversive activities

Question 2

criminal Syndicalism laws (1919-1920)

Answer 2

• passed by many states during the red scare

- laws were outlawed the mere advocacy of violence to secure social change

Question 3

American plan

Answer 3

• Business oriented approach to worker relation

- managers sought to strengthen their communication with workers and to offer benefits like pension and insurance

Question 4

Immigrants act of 1924 (National origins act)

Answer 4

-establish quotas for immigration to the US

Question 5

18th amendment (volstad act) (1919)

Answer 5

• prohibited the manufacture sale and transportation of alcohol
• prohabition

Question 6

Racketeers

Answer 6

• people who obtain money illegally

- invaded the ranks of labor during the 1920s

Question 7

Bible belt

Answer 7

• region of the American south

- protestant fundamentalism and belief in literal interpretation of the Bible where traditionally strongest here

Question 8

Fundamentalism

Answer 8

-protestant Christian movement emphasizing the literal truth of the Bible and opposing religious modernism which sought to reconcile religion and science

Question 9

Scientific management

Answer 9

• A system of industrial management created and promoted in the early 20th century by Frederick W Taylor
• emphasized stopwatch efficiency to improve factory performance
• gained immense popularity across the United States and Europe

Question 10

Fordism

Answer 10

-System of assembly line manufacturing and mass production named after Henry ford

Question 11

Henry ford

Answer 11

• founder of ford motor company and the model T car

Question 12

United Negro improvement Association (UNIA)

Answer 12

-A black nationalist organization founded in 1914 By Marcus garvey in order to promote resettlement of African-Americans to their African homeland and to stimulate a vigorous separate black Economy within the US

Question 13

Modernism

Answer 13

• artistic and cultural movement

- revolt against comfortable Victorian standard and excepted change chance contingency uncertainty and fragmentation

Question 14

Lost generation

Answer 14

-creative Circle of expatriate American artists and writers including Ernest Hemingway, f. Scott fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein

Question 15

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 15

• A creative outpouring among African-American writers JAzz musicians, and social thinkers centered around Harlem in the 1920s
• celebrated black culture and advocated for a New Negro in American social political and intellectual life

Question 16

Bolshevic reolution (1917)

Answer 16

-Second stage of the Russian Revolution in November 1917 when Vladimir Lenin and his Bolshevik party seized power and established a communist state