| A | B |
|---|
| Expatriate | person who leaves his own country to live in a foreign land |
| Fads | activity or fashion taken up with great passion for a short time (flagpole sitting, dance marathons, etc) |
| Jazz | type of music that combined West African rhythms, African American work songs, and European harmonies |
| Flappers | young women who rebelled against traditional ways of thinking and acting (party girls) |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | wrote about wealthy young people who attended endless parties but could not find happiness |
| Harlem Renaissance | artistic movement in the 1920's by many African American musicians, artists, and writers (rebirth of Black Culture) |
| Gertrude Ederle | first women to swim across the English Channel |
| Charles Lindbergh | aviator who crossed the Atlantic Ocean, one of the biggest heores of the decade |
| Babe Ruth | Famous baseball player (a legend) |
| Installment Buying | Allowed people to buy on credit and pay back in installments (buy now, pay later) |
| Quota System | limited immigration into the United States |
| Disarmament | worldwide movement to reduce the amount of armies and weapons |
| Bootleggers | people who smuggled or made illegal liquor |
| Warren Harding | "Return to Normalcy" - many scandals during his administration |
| Herbert Hoover | Republican winner of the 1928 Presidential election; "A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage" - continued prosperity |
| Calvin Coolidge | "Keep cool with Coolidge" - silent president |
| 18th Amendment | banned alcohol |
| 21st Amendment | repeals the 18th amendment and allows alcohol production, sale, and consumption |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | Italian immigrants executed unfairly (their execution reflected a growing anti-foreigner feeling in the U.S.) |
| Xenophobia | fear of foreigners |
| 19th Amendment | Women's Suffrage (Right to Vote) |
| Anarchist | person who is against laws and government |
| Marcus Garvey | black man who led a "Back to Africa Movement" |
| Susan B. Anthony | Leader in fight for Women's Suffrage |
| Normalcy | returning to life as it was before WWI |
| Assembly Line | used by Henry Ford to mass produce cars, making them affordable |
| Ford's Model T | car that was mass produced Ford, affordable for the common man (affordable) |
| Advertising | used by businesses to create demand for consumer products |
| Nativism | people opposed to immigration (stop immigration) |
| Bull Market | period of increased stock trading and rising stock prices (good) |
| Recession | period in which the economy slumps |
| Sabotage | secretly destroying property or interfering with work |
| Pohibition | time when alcohol was banned (18th amendment) |
| Langston Hughes | African-American poet during the Harlem Renaissance |
| Vladimir Lenin | created the worlds first communist state in the Soviet Union (AKA USSR, Russia) |
| Louis Armstrong | brilliant Jazz trumpet player ("SATCHMO") |
| 1920's Republican Presidents | Harding, Coolidge, Hoover... |
| Republican policies favored | business |
| Harding's Administration | corrupt |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | Albert Fall secretly leased government land to private oil companies (prison) |
| Benefits from the auto boom | steel, oil, glass, tourism, etc. |
| Charlie Chaplin | popular movie star of the 1920's and 1930's |
| KKK | infamous hate group that targeted blacks, jews, catholics, and immigrants |
| Red Scare | fear of communism spreading in the U.S. |
| Scopes Trial | famous trial about whether or not the theory of evolution could be taught in public schools |
