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Roaring Twenties
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Roaring Twenties | Nickname for the 1920s because of the booming economy and fast pace of life during that era |
| Model T | A cheap and simple car designed by Ford. It allowed for more Americans to own a car. |
| Consumerism | The idea that buying more and more items is good for the economy |
| Prohibition | the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment |
| 18th Amendment (1919) | Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages |
| 21st Amendment (1933) | Amendment which ended the Prohibition of alcohol in the US, repealing the 18th amendment |
| Speakeasy | A place where alcoholic drinks were sold and consumed illegally during prohibition |
| Bootlegging | the making and selling of illegal alcohol |
| 19th Amendment (1920) | Gave women the right to vote |
| Suffragettes | People who campaigned for women's right to vote in the late 1800's and early 1900's. |
| Flapper | a fashionable young woman who wanted to enjoying herself and go against conventional standards of behavior. |
| Entertainment of the Roaring Twenties | Movies, shows, sports games, and radio programs |
| Swing dancing | Modern style of dancing to jazz music that began in the 1920s |
| Charleston Dance | A jazz dance that embodied the jazz age with wild and reckless moves. Took over dance halls and ballrooms in the 1920s. |
| Shopping in the 1920s | Many different items bought in department stores. People paid using credit if they didn't have the money at the moment |
| Advertising in the 1920s | Shifts from just telling people about products to convincing people that it is something they need, even if they didn't know about it before |
| Great Migration | Movement of millions of African Americans from the South to the North |
| Harlem Renaissance | A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished |
| Jazz | A style of dance music made popular in the 1920s |
| Return to Normalcy | Harding's campaign slogan, wanting to go back to how things were before the war |
| First Red Scare | widespread fear of Communism in the US during the 1920s after the revolution in Russia |
| Communism | Economic and political system with no social classes and total government control of the economy |
| Anarchy | Absence of government |
| Palmer Raids | Part of the Red Scare, these were measures to hunt out political radicals and immigrants who were potential threats to American security; led to the arrest of nearly 5,500 people and the deportation of nearly 400. |
| Immigration Act of 1924 | Established quotas for immigrants coming from certain countries and banned immigrants coming from others |
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