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Bolshevik Revolution
- Spawned a tiny Communist party in America leading to the red scare.
red scare
- Period of anti-communism with raids led by General A. Mitchell Palmer that resulted in the deportation of people who were suspected of "subversive" activities.
criminal syndicalism laws
- Passed by many states during the red scare which outlawed the mere advocacy of violence to secure social change.
American plan
- Approach to defeating unionization by managers trying to strengthen their communication with workers and to offer benefits and insisted on "open shop" not "closed shop."
Ku Klux Klan
- An extremist, paramilitary, right-wing secret society that would terrorized former slaves and sympathetic whites throughout the south. The terror caused carpetbaggers to shun the polls.
Bible Belt
- Extending from North Carolina west to Oklahoma and Texas wher Protestant Fundamentalism thrived and where the Ku Klux Klan was spreading to.
Immigration Act of 1924
- Established quotas for immigration to the U.S. from 3% to 2% majorly cutting out New Immigrants.
Eighteenth Amendment
- Prohibited the production, sale, and transportation of alcohol and was implemented by the Volstead Act.
Volstead Act
- Enforced the Eighteenth Amendment prohibiting production, sale, and transportation of alcohol.
racketeers
- Got money illegally from fraud, bootlegging, gambling, or threats of violence. Many getting money from violating the Eighteenth Amendment and selling home made alcohol.
Fundamentalism
- Protestant Christian movement that supported the literal truth of the Bible opposing religious modernism.
Scientific Management
- Industrial management created and promoted by Fredrick W. Taylor that supported stopwatch efficiency to help with factory performance.
Fordism
- Assembly-line manufacturing and mass production created by Henry Ford.
United Negro Improvement Associations (UNIA)
- Black nationalist organization used to promote resettlement of African Americans to their "African homeland." New racial pride was growing in Harlem New York, location of the the Harlem Renaissance.
modernism
- Artistic and cultural movement that went against comfortable Victorian standards and wanted chance, change, contingency, uncertainty, and fragmentation. Religious modernism was opposed by Fundamentalism.
"Lost Generation"
- American artists and writers including Ernest Hemingway that found shelter and their inspiration from post-WWI Europe.
Harlem Renaissance
- Creative outpouring of African-American writers like Langston Hughes, jazz musicians, and social thinkers in Harlem, celebrating black culture and supported a "New Negro" in American social, political, and intellectual life.