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The Roaring 20's
The Roaring 20's Vocabulary Flashcards
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History
8th Grade
03/22/2010

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Jazz Age
Definition
Name given to the time period between 1919 and 1929.
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Teapot Dome Scandal
Definition
A member of President Harding's cabinet was sent to jail for taking bribes from oil companies.
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Model T Ford
Definition
A car manufactured by Henry Ford using the assembly line.
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
Definition
1928, the United States and 61 other countries signed this treaty outlawing war (a failure).
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Harding
Definition
Republican candidate who won the election for president in 1920. Republicans led the country for the next 12 years.
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Installment Buying
Definition
Buying on credit.
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Prohibition
Definition
A time period when there was a ban on making and selling of alcohol anywhere in the United States.
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Radio
Definition
A device for listening to music, news, shows, etc...
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Harlem Renaissance
Definition
Rebirth of African-American culture.
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Babe Ruth
Definition
Greatest baseball player of the 1920's.
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Fad
Definition
Style of activity that is popular for a short amount of time.
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Flapper
Definition
Young women who rebelled against traditional ways of thinking and acting.
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Red Scare
Definition
US government took harsh actions against both Communists and anarchists.
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Speekeasies
Definition
Illegal bars.
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John Scopes
Definition
Young biology teacher who was put on trial for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution called the "Scope's Monkey Trial."
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Bootleggers
Definition
People who smuggled in millions of gallons of liquor from Canada and the Carribean during prohibition.
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Roaring Twenties
Definition
Another name given to the 1920's.
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Prosperity
Definition
When the economy is strong and doing well- the opposite of depression.
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Normalcy
Definition
What President Harding said the country needed. A return to life as it had been before WWI. Harding made up this word.
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Sacco and Vanzetti
Definition
Trial of two Italian immigrants in Massachusetts that came to symbolize the nativism of the 1920's. They are the "poster children" of the Red Scare because they were proclaimed anarchists.
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NAACP
Definition
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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