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Mannix ss ch 22
The Roaring 20's
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Warren Harding | republican president who was a firm supporter of business |
| Calvin Coolidge | became president when Harding died and was left to deal with the Teapot Dome and other scandals |
| disarmament | reduction or limitation of military armaments |
| communism | economic and political system in which the state owns the means of production and a single party rules |
| anarchist | people who oppose all organized government |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | two Italian immigrants who were charged with robbing and murdering two people and then were executed |
| prohibition | total ban on alcoholic drinks |
| bootlegger | liquor smugglers |
| speakeasy | illegal taverns that served liquor |
| flappers | young women that did not seem interested in women's rights |
| Marcus Garvey | created the Universal Negro Improvement Association |
| Charles Lindbergh | airplane pilot who was the first to fly nonstop across the Atlantic |
| jazz | combined rhythms from West Africa and the Carribbean |
| Sinclair Lewis | Harlem Renaissance writer |
| The Harlem Renaissance | during the 1920's- writers |
| Langston Hughes | poet who won praise for his moving expressions of racial pride |
| installment buying | buying on credit |
| bull market | period of rising stock prices |
| buying on margin | borrowing money in order to buy stocks |