| A | B |
|---|
| capitalism | economic system based on private property and free enterprise |
| anarchist | people who do not believe in organized government |
| deport | to be sent out of a country-expelled |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | tried and sentenced to death for murder; example of anti-foreign feelings in U.S. |
| Marcus Garvey | supported the "Back to Africa" movement |
| Warren G. Harding | U.S. President-wanted U.S. to return to Normalcy after WW 1 |
| Calvin Coolidge | U.S. President--believed best government is least government |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | Albert Fall leased U.S. government land and took bribes for it; became symbol of corrupt government |
| leased | rented |
| isolationism | U.S. desire to stay out of foreign affairs after WW 1 |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | outlawed war |
| recession | economic downturn |
| gross national product [GNP] | total value of all goods and services a country produces |
| installment buying | "buy now pay later" |
| Henry Ford | pioneered new way to make cars using interchangeable parts and assembly line |
| flapper | young woman of the 20s; short hair, short skirts, make-up; image of freedom |
| mass media | newspapers, radio, magazines |
| Charles Lindbergh | first man to fly non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean |
| Jazz Age | 1920s nickname, music of time was jazz |
| Harlem Reaissance | rebirth of the African American culture |
| "Red Scare" | period in the U.S. when the government went after communists and others with radical views |
| expatriates | people who choose to live in another country, but not become citizens of that country |
| Prohibition | banned making, transporting and selling of alcohol |
| 18th Amendment | also called Prohibition; repealed with 21st Amendment |
| nativism | belief that native-born Americans were superior to foreigners |
| quota system | placed a limit on the number of people that could enter the U.S. from each country |
| evolution | scientific theory how humans changed or evoved over vast periods of time |
