APUSH Chapter 31 Vocabulary – Flashcards

1917. The second stage of the Russian Revolution in November 1917 when Vladimir Lenin and his Bolshevik Party seized power and established a communist state. The first stage had occurred the previous February when more moderate revolutionaries overthrew the Russian Czar

1919-1920. A period of intense anti-communism lasting from 1919 to 1920. The "Palmer raids" of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer resulted in about 6,000 deportations of people suspected of "subversive" activities

passed by many states during the Red Scare, outlawed the mere advocacy of violence to secure social change. Stump speakers for the International Workers of the World were special targets

a business-oriented approach to worker relations popular among firms in the 1920s to defeat unionization. Managers sought to strengthen their communication with workers and to offer benefits like pensions and insurance. They insisted on an "open shop" in contrast to the mandatory union membership through the "closed shop" that many labor activists had demanded in the strike after WWI

revived in 1920, anti-foreign, anti-black, anti-Jewish, anti-pacifist, anti-Communist, anti-internationalist, anti-evolutionists, and anti-bootlegger, but pro-Anglo-Saxon and pro-Protestant

the region of the American South, extending roughly from North Carolina west to Oklahoma and Texas, where Protestant Fundamentalism and belief in literal interpretation of the Bible were traditionally strongest

also known as the "National Origins Act," this law established quotas for immigration to the UNited States. Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe were sharply curtailed, while immigrants from Asia where shut out altogether

ratified in 1919, this Constitutional amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. It ushered in the ear known as Prohibition

1919. A federal act enforcing the 18th amendment, which prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages

people who obtain money illegally by fraud, bootlegging, gambling, or threats of violence

a protestant Christian movement emphasizing the literal truth of the Bible and opposing religious modernism, which sought to reconcile religion and science. It was especially strong in the Baptist Church and the Church of Christ, first organized in 1906

a system of industrial management created and promoted in the early 20th century by Frederick W. Taylor, emphasizing stopwatch efficiency to improve factory performance. The system gained immense popularity across the United States and Europe

a system of assembly-line manufacturing and mass production named after Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company and developer of the Model T Car

a black nationalist organization founded in 1914 by the Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey in order to promote resettlement of African Americans to their "African homeland" and to stimulate a vigorous separate black economy within the United States