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| Warren G. Harding | the 29th president of the United States, his administration was full of scandals. |
| Calvin Coolidge | the 30th president of the United States, his presidency helped restore faith in government leaders after the scandals of the Harding administration |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | a scandal under the Harding administration in which government officials were accused of taking bribes to allow oil to be mined from federal lands |
| Kellog-Briand Pact | an agreement between nations proposing peaceful solutions to conflices, signed after World War I |
| Model T | Henry Ford's automobile designed with the average American in mind |
| moving assembly line | an innovation of Henry Ford's that dramatically reduced the cost of production |
| Herbert Hoover | the 31st president of the United States, he was president during the stock market crashes that helped lead to the Great Depression |
| flappers | young women who challenged tratidional ideas of womanhood in the 1920s |
| Red Scare | a widespread fear of communism and Communists |
| Twenty-first Amendment | an amendment to the Constitution that ended Prohibition |
| fundamentalism | a religious belief characterized by a literal interpretation of the Bible |
| Scopes trial | a trial in which John Scopes was accused of teaching evolution illegally |
| Great Migration | a period of African American movement fromt he South to cities in the North |
| Marcus Garvey | African American leader of the black nationalism movement |
| talkie | a film that includes sound |
| Jazz Age | a name for the decade of the 1920s based on the popularity of jazz music |
| Harlem Renaissance | a period of artistic achievement during the 1920s |
| Langston Hughes | African American writer who achieved fame during the Harlem Renaissance for his poetry, which discussed the alienation of African Americans from white American society |
| Lost Generation | the generation of young people who fought in World War I and eventually became disillusioned with the promise of American society |
| expatriates | citizens who leave their country to live elsewhere |
| Georgia O'Keeffe | American artist whose works of flowers and cow skulls became famous |
