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- Deported
- expelled from the country.
- Installment buying
- buying on credit.
- Charlie Chaplin
- his nickname was "The Little Tramp." Star of comedian.
- Bootleggers
- smugglers sometimes hid bottles of liquor in their boots.
- Ana Roque de Duprey
- an educater and writer. Puerto Rican women crusaded for the vote.
- Claude McKay
- wrote about Experiences of African Americans. From Jamaica. In his poem "If we Must Die," he condemned the lynchings and other mob violence that black Americans suffered after WW1.
- Suburb
- a community located outside a city.
- F.Scott Fitzgerald
- young writer who best captured the mood of the Roaring Twenties, he was also an expatriot. Related to F.Scott Key.
- Babe Ruth
- most popular player of the 1920's. Became star of the NY Yankees. He also hit 60 homeruns in 1 season.
- Fad
- an activity or a fashion that is taken up w/great passion for a short time.
- Jazz
- combined west African rhythms, African American work songs and spirituals, and European harmonies.
- Sabotage
- the secret destruction of property or interference w/work in factories.
- Prohibition
- a ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor anywhere in the U.S.
- Countee Cullen
- a poet who wrote about Experiences of African Americans. Graduated from NYU and Harvard.
- Expatriates
- people who leave their own country to live in a foreigh land.
- Teapot Dome Scandal
- as a result of this, fall became the first Cabinet official ever sent to prison. This happened after Harding was dead.
- League of Women Voters
- worked to educate voters and worked to gaurantee other rights, such as the right of women to serve on juries.
- Disarmament
- the reduction of armed forces and weapons of war.
- Warren G. Harding
- was president, and inaugurated on March 4th, 1921. After, he swamped his democratic oponent.
- Emergency Quota Act
- passed in 1921; this allowed only a certain number of people from each country to enter the U.S. Favored immigrants from Northern Europe, especially Britain.
- Jones Act
- 1917, granted American citizenship to Peurto Ricans.
- Repeal
- cancellation.
- Charles Lindberg
- greatest hero, flew nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean. From Minnesota.
- Red Scare
- thousands of radicals were arrested and jailed. Many foreigners were deported.
- Alfred E. Smith
- former governor of NY.
- Langston Hughes
- best known poet of the Harlem Renaissance. Published his first poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," soon after graduating highschool.
- Quota System
- allowed only a certain number of poeple from each country to enter the U.S.
- Kellogg-Briand Pact
- this treaty outlawed war, 1928 treaty.
- Eugene O'Neill
- was a writer, revolutionized the American theater. He shocked audiences w/powerful, realistic dramas based on his years at sea. American playright.
- Herbert Hoover
- Secretary of Commerce; easily won the Republican nomination.
- Sinclair Lewis
- grew up in a small town Minnesota and later moved to NYC. He presented small-town Americans as dull and narrowminded.
- Ernest Hemingway
- one of the writers who lived for a time in Paris. Became one of the most popular writers of the 1920's, he was also an expatriot.
- Ku Klux Klan
- a group of white men, in Georgia declared this. This had used terror to keep African Americans from voting after the Civil War.
- Bull Market
- a period of increased stock trading and rising stocks prices.
- Zora Neale Hurston
- also wrote about Experiences of African Americans. From Jamaica. In his poem "If we Must Die", he condemned the lynchings and other mob violence that black American's suffered after WWI. (World War I)
- Communism
- an economic system in which all wealth and property are owned by the community as a whole.
- Calvin Coolidge
- was vice president, he believed that prosperity for all Americans depended on business prosperity, and from Massachusetts.
- Louis Armstrong
- one of the brilliant young African American musicians who helped create jazz.
- Nativism
- anti foreign feeling.
- Stocks
- Shares of ownership.
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- were arrested for robbery and murder in 1920.
- Henry Ford
- introduced the assembly line in his automobile factory in 1913.
- Alice Paul
- leading suffragist and pointed out that women still lacked many legal rights.
- Company Union
- labor organization that were actually controlled by management.
- Anarchists
- people who oppose organized government.
- Flappers
- these young women rebelled against traditional ways of thinking and acting.
- Recession
- economic slump.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- head of the National Women Suffrage Association and set up the League of Women Voters.
- Marcus Garvey
- became one of the most popular black leaders. He also started the first widespread black nationalist movement in the U.S.
- Equal Rights Amendment
- stated that "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by U.S. or by any state on account of sex."