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The Roaring Twenties
Term | Definition |
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President Harding | 29 president |
Tea Pot Dome | scandal involving Albert Fall |
President Coolidge | 30 president |
Lassez-faire | leaving business unregulated |
Isolationist | foreign affairs |
Kellogg-Briand Pact | nations agreed to refrain from war |
Assembly Line | assembling a product whereby workers |
Installment Plan | buying on credit |
Henery Ford | 29 president |
Ohio Gang | hardings corrupt friends |
Prohibition | action of forbidding something |
Fundamentalism | not wanting evolution |
evolution | the word of the bible |
Louis Armstrong | a musitcion who played the trumpet |
Charles A. Lindberg | first person to fly nonstop across the atlantic |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | jazz age |
Helen Wills | woman tennis player |
Duke Ellington | jazz pianist |
Langston Hughes | famous writer |
Charle Chaplin | popular movie star |
Gertrude Ederle | first woman to to swim the English Channle |
Amelia Earhart | fist woman to fly nonstop across the atlantic |
Babe Ruth | famous baseball outfeilder |
Ernest Hemmingway | famous author |