Unit 4 Key Vocabulary U.S. History.

Directions: Complete the chart below for each word in the vocabulary list.
Vocab Definition Significanc Visual/Picture
Word e
(Importanc
e).
1920S many in US
Red the United government
Scare. States was
feared involved in
recent illegal
immigrants activities to
and spread fear
dissidents and
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY
xenophobia
among the
people.
Palmer The to arrest
Raids Palmer foreign
Raids were anarchists,
a series of communists,
raids and radical
conducted leftists,
in
November
1919 and
January
1920 by
the United
States This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY
Departmen
t of Justice
under the
administrat
ion of
President
Woodrow
Wilson to
capture
and arrest
suspected
socialists
Unit 4 Key Vocabulary U.S. History.

Sacco- Sacco and established

Vanzetti Vanzetti important
Trial Trial The legal
1921 principles
murder
trial of the
young
Italian
immigrants
Nicola
Sacco and
Bartolome
o Vanzetti This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA
was one of
the most
controversi
al trials in
U.S
Harlem a literary it was like
Renaissa movement the rebirth
nce in the of the
1920s that African
centered American
on Harlem culture.
and was an
early
manifestati
on of black
consciousn
ess in the This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA-NC
US The
movement
included
writers
such as
Langston
Hughes
and Zora
Neale
Hurston.
Unit 4 Key Vocabulary U.S. History.

Red Red of 1919

Summer Summer is marked the
of 1919 the period culmination
from late of steadily
winter growing
through tensions
early surrounding
autumn of the great
1919 migration of
during African
which Americans
white from the
supremacis rural South This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY
t terrorism to the cities
and racial of the North
riots took that took
place in place during
more than World War
three I.
dozen
cities
across the
United
States,
Langston US writer; Langston
Hughes full name Hughes was
James famous for This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-ND
Mercer his poetry,
Langston which
Hughes. A helped to
leading fuel the civil
voice of rights
the Harlem movement
Renaissanc
e, he began
a prolific
literary
career with
The Weary
Blues
(1926), a
series of
poems on
black
themes,
Unit 4 Key Vocabulary U.S. History.

Louis Armstrong, For more

Armstron nicknamed than half a
g Satchmo or century,
Pops, was Louis
an Armstrong
American remained
jazz one of the
trumpeter, most
singer, and famous
an faces in the
influential African-
figure in American
jazz music. community.
DW
Griffith This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA-NC
David
Llewelyn
Wark "D.
W."
Griffith
was an
American
film
director,
mostly
remembere
d as the
director of
the 1915
film The
Birth of a
Nation and
the
subsequent
film
Intolerance
.
Second Leave Blank. **
Rise of
KKK
(1920s).
Unit 4 Key Vocabulary U.S. History.

Scopes The 1925 It riveted

Trial prosecutio public
n of attention
science and made
teacher millions of
John Americans
scopes for aware of the
teaching ACLU for
evolution the first
in a time.
Tennessee
public
school
19th Prevented Was a major
amendem the ability win in the
tn to restrict fight for
people women’s
from suffrage
voting Laid the
because of foundation
gender(rati for more
fied accepting
August 18, America.
1920)
Market Speculatio The critical
seculatio n involves role of
n2 trading a bringing
financial changing
instrument information
involving into the
high risk in price.
expectation
, of
significant
returns.
Unit 4 Key Vocabulary U.S. History.

Hoovervi A The
lles shantytown Hooverville
built by s Spring Up.
unemploye As the
d and Depression
destitute deepened,
people the sheer
during the number of
Depression homeless
of the early people
1930s. became
overwhelmi
ng

The Dust
Bowl

Franklin
Roosevel
t

Federal Leave Blank. **

Deposit
Insurance
Corporati
on
Securities Leave Blank. **
and
Exchange
Commiss
ion.