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Ch. 11 vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| President Harding | President from 1921-1923 until he died. |
| Tea Pot Dome Scandal | Fall took bribes and illegal deals with oil companies. |
| President Coolidge | He was Vice President for Harding then when Harding died Coolidge became President. |
| Laissez - Faire | To those who work hard will get rewarded by Calvin Coolidge. |
| Isolationist | A person who believed that the United States should stay of other nations affairs except in self defense. |
| Kellogg- Brand pact | The pact was signed by many nations who pledged to not make war against each other except in self defense. |
| Assembly line | To speed up production and lower prices. |
| Installment plan | Some customers used credit to pay the they payed original payment in the monthly payment. |
| Henry Ford | He built the first successful automobile. |
| Ohio Gang | They used their government positions to make money illegally. |
| Prohibition | The ban of manufacturing and selling of alcohol. |
| Fundamentalism | movement in which both recognition and political power were gained. |
| evolution | The belif in the biblical story of creation. |
| Louis Armstrong | An American Jazz Trumpeter |
| Charles A. Lindbergh | The first person to fly alone non stop across the Atlantic. |
| F. Scott Fitzgereld | An American novelist. |
| Helen Wills | A woman tennis player. |
| Duke Ellington | An American composer of Jazz orchestras. |
| Langston HUghes | A novelist and started Jazz poetry. |
| Charlie Chaplin | The most popular male film star during the 1920's. |
| Gertrude Ederle | The first woman to swim across the English Chanel. |
| Amelia Earhart | The first woman to fly across the Atlantic by plane. |
| Babe Ruth | Babe Ruth helped to popularize baseball. In 1927, he became the first player to hit 60 home runs in one year |
| Ernest Hemmingway | A young Novelist living in Paris in the 1920's. |