USH EOC Key Terms Review #5

A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art, music, & literature flourished

A plan to revive the German economy though US loans to Germany...

Fear of the spread of communism within the US after WWI...

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...

1929-stock prices fell so low, people left with huge debts; banks ran out of money, lost jobs. 

Make their "return" back into society persecuting Catholics, Jews, immigrants, & blacks...

limited production war ships, not attack each other's possessions, respect China's independence

An arrangement placing a limit on the number of immigrants from each country...

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages...

Harding's promise to return the U.S. to the way it was before the war ( Isolationist)...

President 1929-1933-who held office during the stock market collapse & the beginning Depression

Became president --->Harding died-cleaned up scandals-Business prospered-Americans build wealth

1928 Agreement in which nations agreed not to pose the threat of war against one another...

A time of booming business, new entertainment like jazz music, and new technologies... 

Believed the bible was literally true and written without error aka "Creationism"...

Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion...

stock market crash of 1929-drop in world's economy-Overproduction of good-Decrease in demand

Purchasing stock with little money down-promise of paying the balance at sometime in the future

Nickname for the 1920s, because of the popularity of jazz... 

A government scandal involving a former US Navy oil reserve in Wyoming...

Harvard trained, est. NAACP, called for equal rights immediately for African Americans. 

Italian anarchists convicted on circumstantial evidence for the 1920 murder of two men.

a general science teacher who broke the Tennessee law against teaching evolution; found guilty

African American supported segregation demanded individual improvement 1st...then full equality

A name given to October 29, 1929, when stock prices fell sharply.