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ch. 11 vocab (ss)
Question | Answer |
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president harding | was the president that was killed |
tea pot dome scandle | an episode caused by the secretary of the interior of albert b falls leasing of oil rich public land to privet companies for money and land |
president coolidge | was the step in president that took hardings place |
laissez faire | a theory that stated the business, if unregulated, would act in a way that would benefit the nation |
isolationist | a person that believed in the united states should stay out of other nations affairs except in self defense |
kellogg briand pact | this pact, or treaty, was signed by 15 nations who pledged not to make war against one another except in self defense |
assembly line | the product moves across a conveyor belt across the factory |
installment | to buy something by making small monthly payments |
henry ford | created the assembly line |
"ohio gang" | a gang that was in ohio that did not follow the rules |
prohibitation | the ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol |
fundamentalist | a person that believes in a literal or word for word interpretation of the bible |
evolution | the change in the inherited characteristics of biological populations over successive generations |
louis armstrong | a musician who played the trumpet and who spread new orleans jazz to the north |
charles a lindberg | the first person to fly nonstop across the atlantic ocean alone |
f scott fitzgerald | wrote my most famous novel "the great gatsby" |
helen willis | a famous womans tennis player of the 1920s |
duke ellington | a jazz painist and composer who often playedat the country club in harlem |
langston hughes | the most famous writer of the harlem renenaissance |
charlie chaplin | the most popular movie star during the 1920s |
gertrude ederle | the first woman to swim the english channel |
amelia earheart | the first woman to fly nonstop across the atlantic |
babe ruth | baseballs top home run hitter in the 1920s |
ernest hemingway | i do not know the def for this one |