1920s
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- Warren G Harding
- president who called for a return to normalcy following WWI
- disarmament
- countries worked to reduce militaries after WWI
- bootleggers
- illegally smuggled alcohol into our country
- organized crime
- grew during the 20s because of Prohibition
- Kellogg-Briand Pact
- outlawed war
- Harlem Renaissance
- a literary and music movement that focused on promoting African American culture
- Henry Ford
- introduced the assembly line; made automobiles more affordable; produced the Model T
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- wrote "The Great Gatsby"
- Langston Hughes
- poet of the Harlem Renaissance
- Jones Act
- granted citizenship to Puerto Ricans
- flappers
- young women who rebelled against tradition; short hair, short skirts,smoking etc
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- two Italian anarchists who were executed for a crime that they may not have committed; reflective of the red scare and nativism that plagued the country
- Prohibition
- time period in our country where alcohol was banned (illegal)
- Charles Lindbergh
- first to fly solo across the Atlantic; plane was named the Spirit of St. Louis
- Marcus Garvey
- called for a "back to Africa" movement that encouraged African Americans to look to their cultural roots in Africa
- 21st amendment
- repealed Prohibition
- repeal
- to cancel
- uneven prosperity
- while most people were "roaring" during the twenties, farmers and foreigners were not doing well
- Louis Armstrong
- young African American trumpeter; jazz musician
- Babe Ruth
- baseball legend
- expatriates
- people who leave their own country to live in a foreign land
- bull market
- GOOD
- League of Women Voters
- worked to educate women to use their newfound suffrage rights
- radio
- new form of entertainment of the 1920s; shows, music, and news became family activities
- speakeasies
- illegal bars set up in legal establishments
- installment buying
- buying on credit; buy now,pay later
- fad
- an activity or a fashion that is taken up with great passion for a short period of time; flagpole sitting and the Charleston
- on margin
- people could buy stocks with only a ten percent down payment
- deported
- being expelled from the country
- mass production
- producing a large quantity of a good; usually by using the assembly line
- red scare
- a fear of communism that spread throughout the US
- Scopes Monkey Trial
- debate over teaching evolution in schools led to this famous trial
- movies
- new pasttime of the twenties; The Jazz Singer was the first "talkie"
- suburb
- community located outside of the city; made possible because of the affordable automobile
- Ernest Hemingway
- expatriate; wrote many pieces of literature "A Farwell to Arms" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
- jazz
- new form of music
- Emergency Quota Act
- put severe restrictions on immigration
- stocks
- parts of a company
- assembly line
- increased production by making products station by station
- bear market
- BAD