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Social Studies 1920s
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Intolerance | The refusal to accept equal people as equal. |
| Communism | System of government where the government controls all aspects of the economy. |
| Red Scare | Fears of communist revolution in America, |
| Palmer Raids | Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer to arrest government radicals (communist). |
| Warren Harding | President of U,S. in 1921. Promised propersity at home and peace abroad. |
| Ohio Gang | Harding's friends from Ohio that he gave Cabinet positions to. |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | Secretary of Interior Albert Fall took bribes and made illegal deals with oil executives to drill on oil-rich land in Wyoming. |
| Calvin Coolidge | Became president after Harding died. Favored business |
| Laissez Faire | Theory that if the government did not interfere in business then businesswould benefit the nation by making more money and creating more jobs. |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | Treaty signed by 15 nations agreeing not to make warnunless in self defense. |
| Assembly Line | Henery Ford invented it to speed up production by having parts move along a conveyor belt and workers add parts to make final product. |
| Installment Buying | Using credit cards to pay for purchases then paying back in monthly payments. |
| Flapper | A young woman who embraced the fashions and attitudes of the 1920;s. |
| Prohibition | 18th Amendment thaht banas manufacturing and sale of alcholic beverages. |
| Al Capone | Violent crime boss that monopolized the illegal liquor business in the 1920;s. |
| NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) | Organizations that worked to protect the Contitutional rights kof African-Americans. |
| Marcus Garvey | frica to escape duscriminaktiojn. |
| Fundamentalism | Belief of a literal word for word interpretation of the Bible. |
| John Scopes | Teacher convicted of teaching Darwin;s Theory of Evolution in TN high school It challenged the Biblical the |
| Ku Klux Klan | Increased power and influence in 1920's. Spread violence towards African-Americans, impure women and religious groups. |
| Jazz | Music developed by African-Americans in New Orleans. |
| Popular culture | Song, dances,fashion and slang expressions from the time period |
| Harlem Renaissance | Rebirth of African-American culture in the 1920s after Great Migration. |
| Lost Generation | Artist and writers that were filled with resentment and saw little hope for the future. |
| Expatriates | People who chose to live in a country other than their own. |
| Charles Lindberg | First who chose to fly nonstop across the Atlantic. |
| Amelia Earhart | First women to fly across the Atlantic. Disappeared on a around the world tour. |
| Prosperity | A successful or thriving period. Financially doing well |
| Mass Media | Communications that reach large audiences (Radio, movies and magazines in the 1920s) |
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