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Roaring Twenties
roaring 20s vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Roaring Twenties | Beneath an appearance of calm and prosperity, America was experiencing fundamental economic and social changes |
| "Return to Normalcy" | President Warren Harding used this to describe a less ambitious foreign policy and a greater emphasis on peacetime |
| Red Scare | Fear of a Communist revolution in the U.S. |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | Occurred when Harding appointed his friends who turned out to be dishonest and took bribes in exchange for oil leases |
| Warren Harding | Republican president who enacted high tariffs, lowered taxes and restricted immigration. He urged greater rights for African Americans and resisted anti-Semitism |
| Calvin Coolidge | As the Governor of Massachusetts, he gained attention for opposing the Boston police strike of 1919. Became president when Harding died suddenly. Symbolized the old-fashioned values of honesty and thrift |
| Henry Ford | Early auto manufacturer; introduced assembly line production. |
| "Rugged Individualism" | Hoover coined this term to describe the reason for “American greatness”—a system in which individuals were given equal opportunities, a free education, and a will to succeed. |
| Herbert Hoover | Republican president who felt that too much government interference in business would undermine the nation’s prosperity by “drying up the spirit of liberty and progress.” |
| Prohibition | The 11 year illegalization of alcohol motivated primarily by moral, religious, and traditional family values. |
| Frances Willard | President of the National Women’s Temperance Union |
| Eighteenth Amendment | Banned the sale of alcoholic drinks |
| Twenty-First Amendment | Repealed the prohibition of alcohol |
| Scopes "Monkey Trial" | The trial of a biology teacher who was arrested for teaching his class about the theory of evolution; the trial pitted older religious beliefs against new scientific theories |
| Clarence Darrow | Defense attorney who represented a Tennessee biology teacher charged with teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution to high school students. |
| Immigration Acts | Collections of laws passed in the 1920s that placed numerical limitations on the number of immigrants from specific countries, with Western Europe being favored and Asia being disfavored. |
| Eugenics | Pseudo-scientific belief that the human race could be improved by selective breeding, with emphasis on Arian traits (blue eyes, blond hair). |
| Flapper | Group of young women, characterized by short hair and skirts, who rejected traditional societal expectations in the 1920s. |
| Tin Pan Alley | Area of New York city that produced a variety of popular music throughout the early twentieth century, partly in response to a growing demand for sheet music. |
| Great Migration | Large-scale movement, caused largely by racism and lack of opportunity, of African Americans from the South to cities in the North and Midwest. |
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