US History - Chapter 12/13

Nativism is the policy of pulling away from involvement in world wars.

Arrested and charged with murder and robbery of the factory worker. Executed despite a lack of evidence.

F. Scott Fitzgerald and Earnest Hemingway were part of the Harlem Renaissance.

The Fordney-McCumber Tariff, helped US businesses from foreign competition by raising import taxes to 60%

People bought things they didn't need because the didn't have to pay for it immediately by using the _____.

The system that established the number of people allowed to enter the US from foreign countries.

Marcus Garvey believed in a society in which blacks and white coexisted in harmony

Silver-haired, good-natured Ohio senator who looked like a President should; provided a calm after WW1

During Prohibition, these two things became very popular.

The Scopes Trial was based on a Tennessee teacher, John Scopes, teaching about the theory of evolution in school.

They drank alcohol, wore skimpy clothing and didn't abide by societies standards.

After the passing of the 18th Amendment, Al Capone, the notorious Chicago gangster, rose to prominence during ________.

The Harlem Renaissance featured people such as _________.

Harding's group of "cronies" that made up his presidential cabinet were called __________.

Scandal in which oil rich lands in Wyoming were transferred from the US Navy to the Dept. of the Interior