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The Roaring Twenties
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |