Bolshevik Revolution- Vladimir Lenin and his Bolshevik party seized power and established communism.
Red Scare- Anti-communism lasting form 1919-1920.
Criminal Syndicalism Laws- Outlawed advocacy of violence to secure social change.
American Plan-Managers sought to strengthen their communication with workers and offered benefits like pensions and insurance.
Ku Klux Klan- A secret society that was anti-everything that is not American and pro-Anglo-Saxon and pro-Protestant.
Bible Belt- From North Carolina west to Oklahoma and Texas, there was a strong belief in literal interpretation of the Bible.
Immigration Act of 1924- Established a quotas for immigration to the United States, meaning that immigrants from Asia were not allowed.
Eighteenth Amendment-Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.
Volstead Act- Enforced the eighteenth Amendment.
Racketeers- Were people who obtained money illegally by fraud, bootlegging, gambling, or threats of violence.
Fundamentalism- Emphasized the literal truth of the Bible and opposed religious modernism.
Scientific Management- Emphasized stopwatch efficiency to improve factory performance.
Fordism- The use of assembly-line manufacturing and mass production.
United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)- Promoted resettlement of African Americans to their "African homeland" and to create a separate black economy.
Modernism- The artistic and cultural movement accepted change, chance, contingency, uncertainty, and fragmentation.
"Lost Generation"- A group of American artists and writers who experienced WWI.
Harlem Renaissance- African-American writers, jazz musicians, and social thinkers around Harlem in the 1920s that celebrated black culture.