Ch. 11 Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| President Harding | The president before Calvin Coolidge, he died. Was part of a scandal. |
| Tea Pot Dome Scandle | Illegal deals made with oil executives to drill in Teapot Dome, Wyoming. |
| President Coolidge | Became president when Harding died. He believed that people would be rewarded if they worked hard. |
| Laissez-Faire | Economic theory that promotes leaving business unregulated. |
| Isolationist | One opposed to U.S. involvement in foreign affairs. |
| Kellogg- Briand Pact | International agreement in which nations agreed to refrain from war. |
| Assembly Line | Process of assembling a product whereby workers at various stations add parts to it. |
| Installment Plan | Buying on credit and repaying the amount in monthly payments. |
| Henry Ford | Revolutionized the automobile. Found a way to make a car affordable for most people. He used the assembly line method. |
| "Ohio Gang" | Harding's corrupt friends from Ohio. They used their government positions to make money illegally. |
| Prohibition | The banning of the manufacture, sell, and possesion of alcoholic beverages. |
| Fundalism | A belief that did not want evolution taught in school. |
| Evolution | The theory that man kind evolved from another animal. |
| Louis Armstrong | Was a famous musician. He was a jazz trumpeter. He spread New Orleans jazz to the north. |
| Charles A. Lindberg | Was the first person (male) to fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean alone. |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | His wife Zelda and I lived the fast-paced lifestyle of the Jazz Age. My most famous novel is The Great Gatsby. |
| Helen Wills | A famous woman's tennis player of the 1920s. |
| Duke Ellington | A jazz pianist and composer who often played at the Cotton Club in Harlem. |
| Langston Hughes | The most famous writer of the Harlem Renaissance. |
| Charlie Chaplin | The most popular male movie star during the 1920s. |
| Gertrude Ederle | The first woman to swim the English Channel. |
| Amelia Earhart | The first woman to fly nonstop across the Atlantic. |
| Babe Ruth | Baseball's top home run hitter in the 1920s. |
| Ernest Hemmingway | A famous writer of the Lost Generation. |
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