| The term 'melting pot' means | a place where different peoples, styles, theories, etc. are mixed together. |
| The term ‘Great Migration’ refers to | former black southern slaves moving to the Northern cities of America |
| WASPs | White Anglo Saxon Protestants |
| Modernism | a movement towards modifying traditional beliefs in accordance with modern ideas |
| An example of a modernist rural urban divide in America during the 1920s | Charles Darwin's theory of evolution |
| Karl Marx’s suggestion that individuals were motivated by economics | was a key point in the progressive modernist mindset. |
| Religious fundamentalism | a form of a religion, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture. |
| The majority of people were becoming less religious in the 1920s, but | those that did attend Church were becoming more radical. |
| In 1919 approximately | 110,000 people immigrated to the U.S. |
| In 1920 approximately | 430,000 people immigrated to the U.S |
| In 1921 approximately | 800,000 people immigrated to the U.S |
| In 1921 Congress passed | the Emergency Quota Act |
| The Emergency Quota Act | limited immigration to 3% of the number of immigrants from that country already living in the United States as defined by the census of 1910. |
| In 1924 Congress adjusted the quota system | so it was based on the census of 1890 when few southern Europeans had arrived. |
| Figures from the 1920s showed that | 58.5% of the population had white parents |
| Literacy tests: 1917 | created a “barred zone” extending from the Middle East to Southeast Asia |
| The National Origins Act, 1924: | reduced the maximum number of immigrants to 150,000 per year and cut the quota to 2 per cent, based on the population of the USA in 1890. |
