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Ch.11 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| President Harding | The 29th President of the US, 1921-1923. He promised "normalcy", lower taxes, less government. Presidency accused of corruption. Died in office. |
| Tea Pot Dome Scandal | Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall, took bribes and made illegal deals with oil execs to drill on government land in Teapot Dome, Wyoming. |
| President Coolidge | Vice-President to Harding, became President when Harding died. Cleaned up the scandals. Believed in laissez-faire. |
| Laissez-Faire | Economic theory that if business is left unregulated by the government it would act in a way that would benefit the nation. |
| Isolationist | A person who believed that the United States should stay out of other nations' affairs except in self-defense |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | In 1928, this pact was signed by many nations who pledged not to make war against each other except in self-defense. |
| Assembly Line | A way to mass produce a product by moving the product along a conveyor belt. Workers add parts to the product as it moves along the conveyor belt. |
| Installment Plan | To buy something by making small monthly payments. |
| Henry Ford | Car manufacturer that used the assembly line to mass produce the Model T. Wanted to create a car that everyone could afford. |
| "Ohio Gang" | President Harding's friends from Ohio that he placed in various cabinet positions. |
| Prohibition | The 18th amendment,banning the manufacturing and selling alcohol. |
| Fundamentalist | A person who believes in a literal or word-for-word, interpretation of the bible. |
| evolution | Is the scientific theory that living things developed over millions of years from earlier and simpler forms of life. |
| Louis Armstrong | Popular Jazz musician who played the trumpet. |
| Charles A. Lindberg | The first person to fly across the Atlantic ocean by him self. |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Author of The Great Gatsby. |
| Helen Willis | Dominated women's tennis in the 1920s. |
| Duke Ellington | Famous Jazz pianist and composer. His band played at the Cotton Club in Harlem in the 1920s. |
| Langston Hughes | A poet from Harlem who wrote about the difficult conditions under which African Americans lived. |
| Charlie Chaplin | Was the most popular male film star during the 1920s. He was know as the "great comedian". |
| Gertrude Ederle | An American swimmer. She was the first woman to swim the English Channel. Olympic swimmer. |
| Amelia Earhart | The first women to fly as a passenger across the Atlantic Ocean. Then attempt it by her self. She then disappeared on her round the world trip. |
| Babe Ruth | Helped to popularize baseball. In 1927, he became the first player to hit 60 home runs in one year. |
| Ernest Hemmingway | A famous author. He was an expatriate living in Paris. Best known for A Farewell to Arms. |
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