1. Roaring 20’s, The Great Depression, FDR & the New Deal
Unit 8 Vocabulary
Roaring 20’s, The Great Depression, FDR & the New Deal

2. The Roaring 20’s (part one)
Learning Target: I can use key words and visuals to demonstrate my knowledge of vocabulary terms pertaining to the Roaring 20’s.
Is your name on the divider?

3. Isolationism
Policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs.

4. Red Scare
Perceived threat of communism to Americans after the Russian Revolution (calling for a worldwide revolution to abolish capitalism).
Nativism-prejudice of foreigners.

5. Palmer Raids
Federal agents hunted down suspected Communists, socialists and anarchists.
100’s of foreign-born radicals were deported without trials.

6. Sacco and Vanzetti
1920
Italian anarchist immigrants executed for robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guard.
Circumstantial evidence and prejudice.

7. Quota System
Maximum number of people who could enter the U.S. from foreign countries.
Discriminated against eastern and southern Europe (Catholics and Jews).

8. Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall’s secret leasing of oil-rich public land to private companies in return for money and land.
Corruption in Harding administration.

9. Scopes Trial
1925
Biology teacher was tried for challenging a Tennessee law that outlawed the teaching of evolution.
Fundamentalism-strict interpretation of the Bible.

10. Harlem Renaissance
Literary and artistic movement celebrating African-Americans in the 1920’s.
Duke Ellington-jazz
Langston Hughes-poet
Louis Armstrong

11. Consumerism Preoccupation with the purchasing of material goods.
Installment Plans

12. Prohibition
18th Amendment- manufacture, sale and transportation of alcohol was illegal. Underfunded and led to speakeasies (hidden saloons), bootleggers (smuggled booze) and organized crime. 21st Amendment-repealed 18th A.
Al Capone