Consumer Culture
A society in which mass production and consumption of nationally advertised products comes to dictate much of social life and status.
Jazz Age
Term coined by writer F. Scott Fitzgerald to characterize the spirit of rebellion and spontaneity among young Americans in the 1920's, a spirit epitomized by the hugely popular jazz music of the era.
Flappers
Young women of the 1920's whose rebelling against prewar standards of feminist included wearing shorter dresses, bobbing their hair, dancing to jazz music, driving my cars, smoking cigarettes, and indulging in illogical drinking and gambling.
Harlem Renaissance
The nation's first self-conscious black literary and artistic movement, centered in New York City's Harlem district, which had a largely black population in the wake of the Great Migration from the South.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Organization founded in 1910 by black activists and white progressives that promoted education as a means of combating social problems and focused on Leah all action to secure the civil rights supposedly guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
Modernism
An early-twentieth-century cultural movement that rejected traditional notions of reality and adopted radical new forms of artistic expression.
Nativism
Reactionary conservative movement characterized by heightened nationalism, anti-immigration sentiment, and laws setting stricter regulations on immigration.
Sacco and Vanzetti Case (1921)
Trail of two Italian immigrants that occurred at the height of Italian immigration and against the backdrop of numerous terror attacks by anarchists despite the lack of clear evidence, the two defendants, both self professed anarchists, were convicted of mister and executed.
Immigration Act of 1924
Federal legislation intended to favor northern and Western European immigrants over those from southern and Eastern Europe by restricting the number of immigrants from any one European country to 2 percent of the total number of immigrants per year, with an overall limit of slightly over 150,000 new arrivals per year.
Scopes Trial (1925)
Highly publicized trail of a high school teacher in Tennessee for violating a state law the prohibited the teaching of evolution, the trail was seen as the climax of the fundamentalist war on Darwinism.
Egypt and Mesopotamia were two of the world's earliest city-based civilizations, forming the foundation for Middle Eastern and Western history. Though they shared many broad similarities, such as agricultural society, polytheistic religions and written traditions, they also had many differences. These contrasts included geographic orientation, cultural emphases, political organization and other aspects.
Businesses compete in a free enterprise system because these systems exist in a capitalist environment, wherein the company with the "best idea" or product makes the sale and thus a profit--thus fostering competition.
Russia<span> signalled her </span>withdrawal<span> from World </span>War<span> One soon after the October Revolution of </span>1917<span>, and the country turned in on itself with a bloody civil </span>war<span>between the Bolsheviks and the conservative White Guard</span>
Answer:
B
Explanation:
the answer is B : religious divisions between Hindus and Muslims on the Indian sub-continent
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