Unit 6 Key Terms

Name given to the decade after WW1 in which the US experienced great economic prosperity and a booming economy.

• The Dirty Thirties

• The Roaring Twenties

• The Swinging Sixties

• The Rowdy

  Twenties

Young women who broke social norms in the Roaring Twenties by cutting their hair short, wearing short dresses, smoking and drinking in public, and going on the town without the company of a male.

• Dancers

• Suffragists

• Conservative Women

• Flappers

Communication technology that reaches a large audience. Newspapers, radio, and later television were all part of this.

• Mass Media

• Social Media

• Print Media

• Broadcast Media

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

Outpouring of artistic and literary works by African American artists and writes, including poet Langston Hughes, artist Jacob Lawrence, and writer Zora Neale Hurston.

• Harlem Renaissance

• Black Renaissance

• African American Renaissance

• Harlem Globetrotters

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Set quotas based on country of origin and only let a certain amount of immigrants in the US

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Immigration Act of 1924

• Immigration Quota Act

• Nativism Act of 1924

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Period in 1920s America where people became fearful of anyone who might be a Communist or a threat to US freedom

• Second Red Scare

• Red Scare

• First Red Scare

• Soviet Scare

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Hostility towards immigrants and African Americans led to this. This group supported Jim Crow and anti-immigration laws.

• Revival of the KKK

• Revival of the Knights of the White Camelia

• Revival of the Freedmen's Bureau

• Revival of the Slave Codes

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Trial of a high school teacher John Scopes for teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school after teaching evolution had been banned

• Casey Anthony Trial

• Tennessee v. Evolution

• Scopes Trial (Scopes Monkey Trial)

• O.J. Simpson Trial

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Manufacturing large quantities of the same product using an automated mechanical system.

• Assembly Line

• Factory System

• Industrial System

• Mass Production

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Divided operations into simple tasks that unskilled workers could do and cut unnecessary motion (first created by Henry Ford)

• Mass Production

• Assembly Line

• Industrial System

• Factory System

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5