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Ch.11 S.S. StudyStac
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| President Harding | A President who died |
| Tea Pot Dome School | Bribery scandal involving cabinet member Albert Fall |
| President Coolidge | Thirtieth U.S. President who became President after President Harding died |
| Laissez-faire | Economic theory that promotes leaving business unregulated |
| Isolationist | One opposed to U.S. involvement in foreign affairs |
| Kellog-Briand Pact | International agreement in which nations agreed to refrain from war |
| Assembly Line | Process of assembling a product whereby workers at various stations add parts to it |
| Installment Plan | This allowed repaying the amount borrowed in small monthly payments |
| Henry Ford | The founder of the Ford Motor Company and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production |
| Ohio Gang | A gang of politicians and industry leaders |
| Prohibition | The ban on manufacture and sale of alcohol |
| Fundamentalism | Belief in a literal, or word-for-word, interpretation of the Bible |
| Evolution | The gradual development of something |
| 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 | His wife and him lived the fast-paced lifestyle of the Jazz Age. His most famous novel is The Great Gatsby |
| Helen Wills | A famous woman's tennis player of the 1920s |
| Duke Ellington | A jazz pianist and composer who often played at the Cotton Club in Harlem |
| Langston Hughes | The most famous writer of the Harlem Renaissance |
| Charlie Chaplin | The most popular male movie star during the 1920s |
| Gertrude Ederle | The first woman to swim the English Channel |
| Amelia Earhart | The first woman to fly nonstop across the Atlantic |
| Babe Ruth | Baseball's top home run hitter in the 1920s |
| Ernest Hemmingway | One of the three famous writers of the Lost Generation |