Unit 7
Terms
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- Herbert Hoover
- 31st President of the United States
- Okies
- unflattering name given to Oklahomans and others from the rural Midwest, especially those who left the Dust Bowl looking for better lives during the 1930s
- Bruce Barton
- a leader of the advertising industry and author of a new interpretation on Christ in The Man Nobody Knows
- John Dewey
- United States pragmatic philosopher who advocated progressive education (1859-1952)
- Fundamentalism
- Conservative beliefs in the Bible and that it should be literally believed and applied
- Bonus Army
- Group of WWI vets. that marched to D.C. in 1932 to demand the immediate payment of their goverment war bonuses in cash
- Louis Armstrong
- United States jazz trumpeter and bandleader (1900-1971)
- 19th Amendment
- Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
- UNIA
- Universal Negro Improvement Association
- Flappers
- Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion
- Speculation
- People bidding on stocks w/o paying attention to the company's profits and the poeple hoping they would quickly make a lot of money
- Langston Hughes
- African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
- Margaret Sanger
- She led an organized birth control movement that openly championed the use of contraceptives. She helped started the birth control movement, thus showing how women were changing.
- Dust Bowl
- A drought in the 1930s that turned the Great Planes very dry.
- Sinclair Lewis
- United States novelist who satirized middle-class America in his novel Main Street (1885-1951)
- Sigmund Freud
- (1856-1939) Founder of psychoanalysis, created the first comprehensive theory of personality
- Marcus Garvey
- Many poor urban blacks turned to him. He was head of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and he urged black economic cooperation and founded a chain of UNIA grocery stores and other business
- Black Friday
- price of gold plummeted; fisk and gould take control of gold supply