| A | B |
|---|
| anarchists | people who want to abolish all forms of government |
| assembly line | system in which products move past workers who each perform a simple part of the production process |
| Communists | people who want to abolish private property and to share the wealth equally |
| xenophobia | a fear and dislike of foreigners |
| Warren G. Harding | president whose friends, know as the Ohio Gang, used their connections to him for their own gain |
| installment plan | system in which a person makes monthly payments including interest, on a product until it is paid in full |
| prohibition | forbade the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol |
| Marcus Garvey | formed the Universal Negro Imporvement Association |
| synthetics | artificial materials |
| expatriate | someone who voluntarily leaves his or her country to live abroad |
| A. Mitchell Palmer | Attorney general during the Red Scare |
| Calvin Coolidge | Sent troops into Boston to restore order when the police went on strike |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | convicted of murder and electrocuted because of the hostility many felt toward innigrants and radicals |
| "Normalcy" | America should concentrate on domestic issues |
| Five-Power Naval Treaty | Signed during the Washington Conference to avoid conflict in East Asia |
| Henry Ford | wanted to make a car that everyone could afford |
| Teapot Dome scandal | involved the bribing of a federal official to lease oil-rich federal lands to private companies |
| High protective tariffs | helped domestic products compete with imports |
| Lost Generation | lost their ideals during World War I |
| Fundamentalism | the belief that every word in the Bible should be taken literally |
| Republican Party | took credit for the prosperity in the country |
| coal, farming, textile | industries that had problems in the 1920s |
| Herbert Hoover | promised to maintain economic prospertiy |
| Alfred E. Smith | Lost the 1928 election because he was a Catholic, from New York, whose famlily had recently immigrated |
| Bessie Smith | "the Empress of the Blues" |
| John T. Scopes | got arrested for teaching evolution |
| Farm bloc | an interest group formed by congressmen from the South and West to stabilize farm prices, support government purchase of farm products, and aid agriculture |
| Harlem Renaissance | period of great artistic development in African American culture |
| Fundamentalism | the belief that every word in the Bible should be taken literally |
| High protective tariff | allowed domestic products to compete with imports |
