| A | B |
|---|
| laissez-faire economics | hands off policy of the government by not regulating business. This policy was supported by the Presidents of the 1920s. |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | Albert Fall was convicted for leasing government oil reserves to private oil companies. |
| Fordney-McCumber Tariff | protective tariff passed in 1922 that set rates at the highest level they had ever been up to that time. |
| Equal Rights Amendment | introduced into Congress in 1923 to assure equality for women. It did not pass Congress and was not sent to the states for ratification. |
| KDKA/WWJ | the first commercial radio stations in the U.S. |
| The Jazz Singer | the first full-length motion picture with sound. It was released in 1927. |
| 18th Amendment | it prohibited the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages in the U.S. |
| Volstead Act | it was passed by Congress to enforce the provisions of the 18th Amendment. |
| speakeasies | secret bars where people in the 1920s could purchase and drink illegal alcohol. |
| bootlegging | the illegal manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol during Prohibition. |
| Fundamentalism | conservative religious beliefs that believe in the literal translation of the Bible. |
| Scopes Trial | a high school teacher was accused of violating a Tennessee state law that prohibited the teaching of evolution. |
| Harlem Renaissance | the flourishing of Black music, art, and literature centered in New York in the 1920s. |
| Lost Generation | American writers, many of whom moved to Europe, who wrote literature that was critical of American materialism in the 1920s. |
