USA: A Nation of Contrasts for Eduqas History GCSE

National ethos of the United Sattes, a set of ideals including democracy, rights, liberty and equality, and equal opportunity to get rich.

The belief that all individuals, or nearly all individuals, can succeed on their own and that government help for people should be minimal

abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market

Anyone is allowed in without any checks or quotas.

Different cultures melting together to form one common culture.

Busiest immigration inspection and processing station in the United States.

Required immigrants to be atleast fluent in English, limiting the number of people who could immigrant.

Restricted the number of immigrants admitted from any country annually to 3% of the number of residents from that country living in the United States as of the 1910 Census.

Banned Asian immigrants and total immigrant was capped to 165,000. Reduced from 3% to 2%.

a system, originally determined by legislation in 1921, of limiting by nationality the number of immigrants who may enter the U.S. each year.

dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries.

someone who believes that government shouldn’t exist

a fear of communism and anarchism that came around.

the belief that everyone should be equal, in salary, social class and possessions.

Raids conducted during late 1919 and early 1920 to catch and arreest suspected socalists, anarchists and communisms and deport them from the United States.

Two italian immigrants who were controversially convicted of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter.

Taking the bible literally

Group of southern American states who deeply believe in Catholicism

Teacher from Tennesee, taught Darwin’s theory when it was illegal

A trial to see if Darwin’s Theory of Evolution could be taught in schools.

The Native inhabitants of America

The capturing of black people for forced labour

Seperating people based on race

Laws permitting the seperation of people based on race

National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People.

Founder of NAACP

Universial Negro Improvement Association

Political Activist, founded UNIA

Far right terrorist organisation who killed black people

Wanted a ban against alcohol

Group of people who protested against bars

Anti-prohibition

Supported prohibition

Set alcohol limit at 0.5%

Banned alcohol

Revoked the 18th

Illegal clubs that sold alcohol

DIY Alcohol

Made and sold alcohol illegally

Mobster from Chicago, became very rich from selling alcohol

Home of mobsters and crime bosses.

Murdering of competition in Chicago by Al Capone

29th President, was bribed a lot.

Friends of Warren that bribed him for oil money.

Was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923

Method of finance, installment plan

Money borrowed from a bank to buy stuff with, paid back over time.

The making of a product done mass scale

Efficent way for creating goods.

Law that raised tariffs on imported goods

Government policies which limit international trade to help domestic industries

American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921

On the production line

Too much of a product is produced, more then demand

No more in demand so no more profits

Buying and selling parts of ownership of a company

Where you buy and sell shares

Prediction of the stock market

Day the wall street crash began, panic selling.

Crash of stocks and shares due to panic selling

Buying assets by borrowing money and then paying off the loan by profiting on the asset.