All Social Words For 1920s
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- Charlie Chaplin
- English comedian and film maker; portrayed a downtrodden little man in baggy pants and bowler hat
- stock
- the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest
- company unions
- a union which is located within and run by a company
- speakeasies
- illegal liquor-serving bars in which one would have to give a password to get into.
- Red Scare
- a period of general fear of communists
- Silent Cal
- Calvin Coolidge's nickname, due to his meekness
- League of Women Voters
- an organization which works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and to influence public policy through education and advocacy, as well as through political lobbying of Congress
- disarmament
- the act of reducing or depriving arms
- Mass Culture
- culture easily provided to many
- Washington Conference
- disarmament effort occasioned by the hugely expensive naval construction rivalry that existed among Britain, Japan and the United States
- Alfred Smith
- the first Roman-Catholic and Irish-American to run for president, and was defeated by Hoover.
- Zora Neale Hurston
- American folklorist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance
- nativism
- the suspicion that the incitements for rebellion were foreign born. This fear lead to Americans treating immigrants poorly and feeling that they were all anarchists. People felt that America must be kept American
- Babe Ruth
- United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs
- communism
- economic system in which capital is owned by private government
- suburb
- a developed area out of an urban area which consists of mainly single-family houses.
- Spirit of St. Louis
- a custom airplane used by Charles Lindbergh to make the first solo, non-stop trans-Atlantic flight
- deportation
- the expulsion of someone from a country
- The Jazz Singer
- the first "talkie"
- bull market
- prolonged period in which investment prices rise faster than their historical average
- sabotage
- deliberate destruction or damage of equipment in order to hinder a particular group
- recession
- an economic slump
- jazz
- rhythmic, syncopated music, often improvised, that was originated by African American musicians
- Gertrude Ederle
- United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel
- Equal Rights Amendment
- proposed amendment which states that "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." This amendment was passed by Congress and was proposed to the states in 1972. It failed to be ratified by enough states in time for its 1982 deadline
- Henry Ford
- founder of Ford Motors
- repeal
- the removal or reversal of a law
- flapper
- a "new breed" of young women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered "decent" behavior
- anarchists
- one who believes in the absolute abolishment of all forms of government
- Prohibition
- the prohibiting of the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol by the United States in the 1920s.
- bootlegger
- one who illegally smuggled alcohol
- the "Ohio Gang"
- The Ohio Gang were a group of politicians and industry leaders who came to be associated with William Harding and were considered to have been responsible for acts of corruption and cronyism
- Marcus Garvey
- Jamaican national hero and champion of black nationalism
- Boston Police Strike
- the Police Force in Boston, MA went on a strike, and in fear of communism, President Coolidge (then governor at the time) fired them and called in the militia to be the police force
- Nicaragua and Mexico
- the two countries the U.S. interfered with during the 1920s
- Teapot Dome Scandal
- a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921; became symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration
- Sinclair Lewis
- United States novelist who satirized middle-class America in his novel Main Street
- Bessie Smith
- United States blues singer
- Kellogg-Briand Pact
- international treaty "providing for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy."
- Red Grange
- a professional and college American football player
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- two Italian-born anarchists, unfairly tried and convicted for the armed robbery and murder of two pay-clerks in Massachusetts in 1920
- Langston Hughes
- American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and newspaper columnist
- isolationism
- A policy of not participating in or withdrawing from international affairs
- Jelly Roll Morton
- United States jazz pianist, compooser, and bandleader
- Herbert Hoover
- 31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed
- Emergency Quota Act
- an immigration quota that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 3% of the number of persons from that country living in the United States in 1910, according to the U.S. Census
- Louis Armstrong
- United States jazz trumpeter and bandleader
- Model T
- the original Ford; first mass produced car; only came in black
- normalcy
- normality
- Talkies
- movies which have sound
- installment buying
- a system for paying for goods by installments
- fad
- interest followed for a time with exaggerated zeal, craze