1. Beginning of Unit 3 – Chapter 11 14 words
The 1920s
Beginning of Unit 3 – Chapter 11
14 words

2. Red Scare
A nationwide fear that Communists might seize power in the Untied States.

3. Henry Ford
Transformed the automobile industry by adapting the assembly line to make cars more efficiently.
The assembly line divided operations into simple tasks. This made it cheaper and easier to make automobiles.
Ford also increased wages and decreased working hours.

4. Mass Production Rapid manufacture of large numbers of identical parts.
Assembly line

5. Installment Buying Buying on credit
Consumer makes a small down payment and then pays off the rest of the debt in monthly payments.

6. Consumer Culture
Many new, affordable goods became available to the public.
Advertising focused on American’s desires and fears convincing them to buy these new products.

7. Quota System Response to growing nativism in the United States.
Emergency Quota Act of 1921: stated that only 3 % of the total number of people in any ethnic group (based on the 1910 census) could be admitted in a single year.
National Origins Act of 1924: made immigration restriction permanent, and set quotas at 2 % (based on the 1890 census).
This created discrimination against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe.

8. Talkies
Movies with Sound
The Jazz Singer
Replaced silent pictures

9. 18th Amendment
Prohibited the production, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States.
The Volstead Act was passed to help enforce the 18th amendment.
Repealed by the 21st Amendment.
Tip to remember: When you’re 18 you can’t drink – 18th amendment no alcohol. When you’re 21 alcohol is legal for consumption – 21st amendment repeals prohibition

10. Flapper
Young, dramatic, stylish and unconventional woman who personified women’s changing behavior in the 1920s.
Flappers drank, smoked, danced, and dressed in revealing attire.

11. Lost Generation
American writers of the 1920s who had lost their faith in the cultural norms of the Victorian Era.
Partially disillusioned by WW1.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, Eugene O’Neill, T.S. Eliot.

12. Great Migration
Mass migration of African Americans from the rural south to industrial cities in the north.
African-Americans moved north to escape the segregated society of the south, find economic opportunities, and to build better lives.

13. Harlem Renaissance
Literary and artistic celebration of African-American culture that began in the NYC neighborhood of Harlem.

14. Marcus Garvey
A black leader from Jamaica who called for “Negro Nationalism” which glorified the black culture and traditions of the past.
He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and promoted gaining economic opportunity through education.
Also advocated separation and independence from whites.

15. Scopes Trial
A court case that reflected the fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in American society.
In 1925, John T. Scopes, broke a law called the Butler Act by teaching about evolution in his high school biology class.
He was arrested and put on trial.