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1920's
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| New Women | women anting to be new or equal after the war. |
| Bonus army | task force sent to the flats to disperse weapons. Mostly criminals and radicals |
| great depression | economic depression in the early 30's |
| reparations | paying for a war because it was your fault |
| peace without a sword | handling of foreign affairs without causing conflict and force. under collage |
| age of the consumer | people produced less but consumed more |
| harlam renaissance | large black community flourished and made great changes in society |
| Hervert hoover | president during the depression. blamed for it |
| Jim Thorpe | great athlete of the early 1900's |
| National Womens Party | padical feminist group founded after they found out they really weren't treated equal because of voting |
| Margeret sanger | leading american proponent of birth control |
| national origins act | caused foreign population to drop 13% in 1920 |
| KKK | radical racist group that persecuted blacks |
| henry ford | Made Ford cars, invented the assembly line and interchangable parts |
| fundamentalism | Take bill literally. do exactly what it says. |