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Chap. 22 - Ms. V
Roaring Twenties
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Warren G Harding | Republican President 1920 "return to normalcy" Administration full of scandal Died in 1923 - heart attack |
| Calvin Coolidge | Harding's VP President in 1924 Had to clean up Harding's mess |
| Disarmament | The reduction or limitation of military armaments |
| Communism | An economic and political system in which the state owns the means of production and a single party rules |
| Anarchists | People who oppose all organized government |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | 2 Italian immigrants charged with robbing and murdering 2 payroll employees in Manhatten. Little evidence to prove guilt. Convicted anyways because they were foreigners |
| Immigration Policy | Only a certain percentage of population that is already here can immigrate to the United States from Eastern and Southern Europe |
| Prohibition | A total ban on alcoholic drinks |
| Bootleggers | Liquor smugglers made huge profits from importing illegal alcohol |
| Speakeasies | Illegal taverns that served liquor |
| 21st Amendment | Repealed prohibition 1923 (18th amendment) due to increase in organized crime |
| 19th Amendment | 1920 women have the right to vote |
| Flappers | Young women in 1920s bright make up short skirts and short bob cut hair |
| Henry Ford | introduced the assembly line making the model t affordable to the middle class family |
| KKK | Ku Klux Klan white anglo-saxon protestants |
| Great Migration | Trend where african-americans moved to the cities in the north |