8th Hist ch 24
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- Treaty of Washington
- 1921; Britain, US, Japan, France, and Italy agreed to scale down their navies in an attempt to keep another war from happenning
- Albert B. Fall
- organizer of the Teapot Dome scheme; he went to prison
- speakeasies
- illegal taverns
- Prohibition
- the 18th ammendment; made it illegal the manufacture, sale, transport, import, and export of intoxicating liquors as a beverage
- flappers
- women who abandoned dress and conduct codes of the past; these rebellious girls became the symbol of the Roaring Twenties; shocked their elders with short skits, slang, new dances, heavy makeup, and drinking or smoking in public
- Calvin Coolidge
- became Republican President when Harding died; felt the "the business of America is business"
- Teapot Dome Scandal
- gained control of government oil reserves and leased two of them to business men in return for "loans"
- Warren G. Harding
- Republican President; felt that America should "return to normalcy"
- When did Prohibition begin, and when did it end?
- 1919-1933
- What were the shockingly fashionable young women of 1920s called?
- flappers
- Charles Lindbergh
- flew the "Spirit of St. Louis" to Paris from New York; he was called "Lucky LIndy" or "the Lone Eagle"
- What two international agreements did the US sign in the 1920's?
- Treaty of Washington & Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact
- Al Capone
- a Chicago gangster
- Are fads ever bad? Explain
- they can be if they are immoral or ungodly
- Why is the Roaring Twenties a good name for the 1920s?
- it was a time of prosperity for the United States following the sacrifices of WW I
- Herbert Hoover
- Republican President who inherited the fall from prosperity
- What was the "red scare"?
- when some Americans overreacted to the Communist threat
- Scopes Trial
- John Scopes, a biology teacher, broke the law by teaching evolution
- When was the first commercial radio broadcast, and what did it announce?
- November 2, 1920; Harding's election to presidency
- Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact
- an agreement of 62 nations in 1928 to outlaw war as a means of settling international disputes
- bootlegging
- selling illegal liquor; became a big business and made many rich
- In what famous trial was a teacher convicted of teaching evolution but biblical Christianity ridiculed?
- Scopes Trial
- In what fad did Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly participate?
- sitting atop a flagpole for 145 days; his food and drink were hoisted to him in a bucket