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IGHS Winkels
US History Chapter 20 Test
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Red Scare | fear of communism or socialism |
| Teapot Dome | Scandal during the administration of Warren G. Harding |
| Flappers | Young women of the 1920's who liked to dance/ short hair/ short dresses |
| Speakeasies | an establishment that illegally sold and served liquor during prohibition |
| Bootleggers | people who provided liquor illegally during prohibition |
| Talkies | Movies with sound |
| Fundamentalism | Christian religious movement that every word of the Bible is true |
| Installment buying | a method of paying for an expensive item over many months |
| Harlem Renaissance | Period in the early 1920's in which African Americans blossomed in artistic, literary, and musical expression |
| Anarchy | opposition to all forms of government |
| Assembly Line | a business process in which the product comes to the worker and is put together |
| Nativism | the belief that all of the best people are in the country already /limit immigration |
| Mass Production | a process by which large amounts of products are made at cheaper costs to bring prices down |
| Jazz Age | a nickname for the 1920's coined by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Charleston | the most popular form of dance in the 1920's |
| Volstead Act | the official law meant to enforce Prohibition |
| Prohibition | 18th amendment |
| William Jennings Bryan | the prosecutor in the Scopes Monkey Trial |
| Sports legends | Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Jack Dempsey |
| Movie idols | Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Clara Bow |
| Charles Lindbergh's famous airplane | The Spirit of St. Louis |
| Model T | built by Ford/black |
| two presidential candidates of 1928 and how they felt about Prohibition | Herbert Hoover-Dry Al Smith-Wet |
| What pact outlawed war | Kellong-Briand Pact |
| name of grave in Arlington National Cemetary that honors Vet's | The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier |
| Warren Harding | slogan was "Return to Normalcy" |
| The Harlem Renaissance | included writers Countee Cullen and Zora Hurston |
| national politics were dominated by | Republican Party |
| played for the New York Yankees | Babe Ruth |
| an organization created by women to keep women involved in politics | League of Women Voters |
| Louis Armstrong | "The Great Satchmo" |
| Bob LaFollette | Progressive Party candidate for president |
| the population shifted from rural to urban because of the | automobile |
| NBC | one of the first national radio networks |
| 1st public radio station in the U.S. | Madison |
| Charlie Chaplin | popular Hollywood actor |
| Gertrude Ederle | 1st woman to swim the English Channel |
| Henry Ford | paid his workers $5 a day |
| the farm crisis was caused by | too many crops which lowered prices |
| NAACP | wanted law passed to stop lynchings |
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