US History Unit 5 Roaring Twenties

Front

assembly line

Back

in a factory, an arrangement where a product is moved from worker to worker, with each person performing a single task in the making of the product

Front

deportation

Back

an official order telling someone to leave a country; expulsion

Front

eugenics

Back

the study of hereditary improvement of human beings by controlled breeding

Front

migration

Back

movement from one country or region to another

Front

nativism

Back

an anti-foreign feeling that arose in the 1840's and 1850's in response to the influx of Irish and German Catholics

Front

prohibition

Back

a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages; the 18th Amendment

Front

quota

Back

a limit placed on the quantities of a product that can be imported

Front

Social Darwinism

Back

social theory which states that the level a person rises to in society and wealth is determined by their genetic background; used as an argument against social programs to help the poor

Front

Great Migration

Back

movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into northern cities between 1914 and 1920

Front

immigration quota

Back

limitations on immigration that were passed by the U.S. government that established preferred immigration of those who were thought to be more 'capable' and capable of success in the United States, while limited the immigration of those who were deemed 'unnecessary'