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US2 Midterm
The Roaring Twenties
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Harlem Renaissance | The Rebirth of knowlege in African American culture. |
| Langston Hughes | Famous Poet in the Harlem Renaissance |
| Zora Neale Hurston | Famous Poet in the Harlem Renaissance |
| Herbert Hoover | President of the united states.Predicted that poverty will be banished from the land.[1928] |
| Jazz Age | Influesnced on the taste and manners of people known as New Manners,New Morals |
| Flapper | Concidered reckless rebels,short sleek hair.They wore shorter than average shapless shift dress. |
| Louis Armstrong | African American performer during the Jazz Age. |
| Al Jolson | African American silent movie performer during the birth of movies. |
| Clara Bow | |
| Charlie Chaplin | The little Tramp,Silent Comedian |
| Babe Ruth | New York Yankee 60 homeruns HALL OF FAME 1936 |
| Jack Dempsey | Prizfighter |
| Gene Tunney | Prizfighter |
| Gertrude Ederle | Prixfighter |
| Charles Lindbergh | Ulimate hero |
| Henry Ford | Manufacturer from the 1910's through the 1940's.made affordable carsfo the masses using assembly line and other production techniques. |
| Prohibition | Banning by law of the manufactur,transportation,sale and possession of alcholic beverages,enacted by the eighteen ammendment from 1920 to 1933. |
| Speakeasies | Establishment that illeagaly sold and served liquor during prohibition. |
| Bootlegging | Supplying liquor during prohibition 1920-1933 by producing it and selling it. |
| Fundamentalism | Christain religious movement based on pamphlets issued between 1909 and 1914 holds that ecery word in the Bible was inspired by God. |
| Scopes trial | Tennessee trial of 1925 that challenged the law teaching evolution in public schools. |
| Real Wages | Value of income adjusted to account for inflation;used to compare wages in different time periods. |
| Welfare Capitalism | Industrial policy of meeting workers' needs with increased pay and benefits for the purpose of preventing labor union organization. |
| Installment Buying | A method of paying for expencive items over many monthsin installments and including interest. |
| Speculation | Undertaking risk on stocks or real estate for the chance for profit. |
| Buy on Margin | Practice of buying stocks 10 to 15 percent of the full price and borrowing the rest;common in the 20's before the stock market crash in 1929. |
| Dow Jones Industrial Average | an average price of stock of the largest corporations.[created by Charlie Dow] |
| Gross National Product | An average of all goods and services produced by the country. |
| Stock Market Crash | Unemployment rose.iIn the 1930's 25 percent of the people were unemployed. |
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