Social Studies Ch. 24 Vocab "The Roaring Twenties"
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Warren G. Harding | Pres. of the U.S., Republican who promised to return to stability and prosperity . |
| Calvin Coolidge | V.P. of Harding, became Pres. after Harding suffered and died of a heart attack . |
| normalcy | the way it was before the war . |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | when Sen. of Interior Albert Fall was accused of taking bribes to allow oil to be mined from federal lands . He was convicted and removed from office . |
| Henry Ford | created the Model T, an invention that changed life and society . also created an assembly line . |
| Model T | Henry Ford's automobile designed with the average American in mind . nicknamed the "Tin Lizzie" . |
| assembly line | an innovation of Henry Ford's that dramatically reduced the cost of production . used conveyor belts to move parts and partly assembled cars from one place to the next. |
| Herbert Hoover | Pres. of the U.S., Republican who promised a chicken in every pot, a car in every garage . |
| flappers | young women who cut their hair short, wore makeup and short dresses, openly challenging traditional ideas of how women were suppose to behave . smoking, drinking, and dancing in speakeasies . symbolized rebelious attitude . |
| Red Scare | a widespread fear of communists and communism . |
| prohibition | 18th amendment that outlawed manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages . |
| speakeasies | illegal bars where liquor was sold . |
| bootleggers | organized criminals who quickly seized control of the illegal alcohol business . made their own liquor or smuggled it in from Mexico or Canada . "Bath Tub Gin" |
| 21st Amendment | repealed Prohibition due to increase in crime and did not stop Americans from drinking . |
| Scopes Trial | a trial in which John T. Scopes was accused of teaching evolution illegally . Clarence Darrow represented Scopes, William Jennings Brian represented the state .Scope was found guilty and fined $100, but South Carolina overturned the conviction . |
| talkie | motion picture with sound . |
| Charles Lindburgh | completed the first non- stop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, traveling from New York to Paris . He was nicknamed "Lucky Lindy", and his plane was named "Spirit of St. Louis" . |
| Jazz Age | a name for the 1920's based on the popularity of jazz music . jazz music developed in New Orleans, a blend of rag time and Blues . |
| Langston Hughes | a Harlem Renaissance writer who produced poems, plays, and novels about African American life . |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | he is famous for his novel "The Great Gatsby", a novel that focused on what he saw as the loss of moraltiy behind the seemingly fun and free- spiritied times of the Jazz Age . |
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