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ch. 11 vocab (ss)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |