Jazz Age
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- *Harlem Renaissance*
- During the 1920s large numbers of African American musicians, artists, and writers settled in Harlem in New York City - led to a rebirth in African American culture
- Kellogg-Briand Pact
- This treaty outlawed war
- *Flapper*
- In the 1920s women who rebelled against traditional values - these women dressed differently, smoked in public and visited speakeasies
- Prohibition
- To outlaw the drinking of alcohol
- Quota System
- Allowed only a certain number of people from each country to enter the US
- *Installment buying*
- During the 1920s many people bought items on credit; it was a new policy of "buy now pay later" - put many into debt; the consumer would make a down payment then pay monthly until the product was paid for plus interest
- Talkie
- A movie with sound
- Red Scare
- Radicals were arrested and foreigners were deported
- On margin
- Buying stock with only a 10% down payment.; the buyer would hold the stock until the price rose and then sell it to make a profit
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- These men were accused of murder and were sentenced to death
- Disarmament
- Reducing a nations armed forces
- Ku Klux Klan
- This group terrorized African Americans
- Suffrage
- Right to vote
- Repeal
- To cancel
- Fad
- Something that is popular for a short period of time
- Bootlegger
- People who smuggled alcohol into the US during prohibition
- *The Growing Auto Industry*
- Other industries such as steel, road construction, gas stations and restaurants increased
- Teapot Dome scandal
- Government land was leased to oil companies for bribes
- Bull market
- Rising stock market
- Anarchist
- Someone who opposed organized government
- Speakeasy
- An illegal bar