Socail studies
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27 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 disarmmament | the reduction or limittation of military armaments |
| Communism | economic and politicial system in which the state owns the means of production and a single party |
| Anarchist | people who oppose all orgainzed government |
| Bootlegger | liquor smugglers |
| speakeasy | illgal taverns that server liquor |
| prohibition | total ban on alcoholic drinks |
| jazz | combinded rhythms from the West Afica and the Caribbean, work chants and spituals from the rural South, and harmonies from Europe into an original new style of music |
| installment buying | buying on credit |
| Bull market | increased stock trading and rising stock prices |
| buying on Margin | borrowing money in order to buy stocks |
| flappers | young women that werent intrested in womens rights |
| great migration | when the blacks moved back to Africa |
| red scare | scare that a revolution was beginnnig |
| warren harding | Republican nominee for President of Ohio, promised a return to "normalcy" |
| calvin cooliadge | Vice President to deal with the Teapot Dome and other scandals. |
| charles lindbergh | nicknamed Lucky Lindy;first to fly nonstop across the Atlantic in 1927 |
| sinclair lewis | reacted against the hypocriseses of middle-class culture |
| Langston Hughes | He want hes poems to sound like jazz music. |
| John Scopes | high school biologly teacher that taught the theory of evolution to his students, and was accused of treason |
| Walt Disney | movie maker |
| Charlie Chaplin | actor |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | a social ctritc and saw the emptiness of rich peoples lives |
| Herbert Hoover | president |
| Nicola Sacco | was arrested and charged with robbing and murdering two payroll employess in MA |
| Bartolomeo Vanzetti | was arrested and charged with robbing and murdering two payroll employess in MA |
| Babe Ruth | famous baseball player |
| Jack Demsey | football playyer |
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