| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Treaty of Washington | 1921; Britain, US, Japan, France, and Italy agreed to scale down their navies in an attempt to keep another war from happenning |
| Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact | an agreement of 62 nations in 1928 to outlaw war as a means of settling international disputes |
| flappers | women who abandoned dress and conduct codes of the past; these rebellious girls became the symbol of the Roaring Twenties; shocked their elders with short skits, slang, new dances, heavy makeup, and drinking or smoking in public |
| Prohibition | the 18th ammendment; made it illegal the manufacture, sale, transport, import, and export of intoxicating liquors as a beverage |
| speakeasies | illegal taverns |
| bootlegging | selling illegal liquor; became a big business and made many rich |
| Scopes Trial | John Scopes, a biology teacher, broke the law by teaching evolution |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | gained control of government oil reserves and leased two of them to business men in return for "loans" |
| Warren G. Harding | Republican President; felt that America should "return to normalcy" |
| Charles Lindbergh | flew the "Spirit of St. Louis" to Paris from New York; he was called "Lucky LIndy" or "the Lone Eagle" |
| Al Capone | a Chicago gangster |
| Albert B. Fall | organizer of the Teapot Dome scheme; he went to prison |
| Herbert Hoover | Republican President who inherited the fall from prosperity |
| Calvin Coolidge | became Republican President when Harding died; felt the "the business of America is business" |
| What two international agreements did the US sign in the 1920's? | Treaty of Washington & Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact |
| What was the "red scare"? | when some Americans overreacted to the Communist threat |
| When was the first commercial radio broadcast, and what did it announce? | November 2, 1920; Harding's election to presidency |
| In what fad did Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly participate? | sitting atop a flagpole for 145 days; his food and drink were hoisted to him in a bucket |
| What were the shockingly fashionable young women of 1920s called? | flappers |
| When did Prohibition begin, and when did it end? | 1919-1933 |
| In what famous trial was a teacher convicted of teaching evolution but biblical Christianity ridiculed? | Scopes Trial |
| Why is the Roaring Twenties a good name for the 1920s? | it was a time of prosperity for the United States following the sacrifices of WW I |
| Are fads ever bad? Explain | they can be if they are immoral or ungodly |
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