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Roaring Twenties
Roaring Twenties Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Elected as the new President in 1920 | Warren Harding |
| What the Americans needed according to Harding | Return to Normalcy |
| Economic Slump | Recession |
| limited government that plays small role in business or personal lives | Laissez Faire |
| Corrupt friends of Warren Harding who were appointed to government offices using the “spoils system” | Ohio Gang |
| Event where Interior Secretary Albert Fall allowed oil companies to pay him for rights to drill oil on federal land | Teapot Dome Scandal |
| First Cabinet member to serve prison time | Albert Fall |
| US President who vowed to clean up the corruption from Harding's Presidency | Calvin Coolidge |
| Theory that stated United States will take care of only American needs and that the United States will not intervene in affairs of other nations. | Isolationism |
| Agreement that Nations agree to stop using war to promote national agenda and use war in self defense only “Outlaws” war | Kellogg-Briand Pact |
| Reduced size of Navies of US, UK, Japan, France and Italy | 5 points Treaty |
| Economic system created by Lenin that caused a Red Scare during the Twenties | Communism |
| The absence of government | Anarchy |
| 2 famous anarchists whose received an unfair trial based on political bias | Sacco and Vanzetti |
| a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants | Nativism |
| Placed quotas (limits) on the number of people who could come to the USA from each country | Emergency Quota Act of 1921 |
| Granted people of Puerto Rico US citizenship | Ley Jones Act |
| Amendment the started Prohibion | 18th |
| Prohibited by Prohibtion | Alcohol |
| Agency created by the Volstead Act to enforce Prohibiition | FBI |
| Illegal nightclubs of the Twenties | Speakeasies |
| People who made and transported illegal liquour | Bootleggers |
| Type of crime brought about by Prohibition | Organized/ Mafia |
| Most famous Mafia boss of the Twenties | Al Capone |
| City controlled by Al Capone | Chicago |
| Murder of rival gang by members of Capone's mafia that solidified his power in Chicago | St. Valentine's Day Massacre |
| Year American women were allowed to vote | 1920 |
| Amendment that gave women the right to vote | 19th |
| Women who rejected the traditional norms and began to express themselves with different behaviors and styles of dress | Flappers |
| Leader of the Back to Africa Movement | Marcus Garvey |
| Group who Terrorized northerners, immigrants, Catholics, African Americans, and any Southerner who opposed them | KKK |
| Famous trial over the teaching of evolution in public schools (made teaching evolution illegal for a long period of time) | Scopes Trial |
| an activity or fashion that becomes very popular for a short time. | Fad |
| Type of music that blended many styles and is considered one of the most important cultural achievements of the USA | Jazz |
| Generation of writers who were expatriates and wrote about the emptiness of American life | Lost Generation |
| people who choose to live outside their own country | Expatriates |
| Flourishing of black culture during the Twenties | Harlem Renaissance |
| Best known author of the Harlem Renaissance | Langston Hughes |
| Produced 90% of the popular music of the 1920s | Tin Pan Alley |
| First talking movie | Jazz Singer |
| Made the 1st transatlantic solo flight | Charles Lindbergh |
| shares of ownership in corporations | Stocks |
| Period of increased stock trading and rising stock prices | Bull Market |
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