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Warren G.Harding | A senator from Ohio |
Calvin Coolidge | Governor of Massachussets as his running mate |
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 |
Kellogg-Brian Pact | an agreement between nations proposing peaceful solutions to conflicts,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 | 1928 the party chose his secretary of commerce as its nominee |
flappers | young women who challenged traditional ideas of womanhood in the 1920s |
Red Scare | a widespread fear of communism and Communists |
Twenty-first Amendment | (1933) 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 from the South to cities in the North |
Marcus Garvey | encouraged black people around the world to express pride in their culture |
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 | Harlem Renaissance writers about African American life |
Lost generation | the generation of young people who fought in World War I and eventually became desillusioned with the promise of American society |
expatriates | citizens who leave their country to live elsewhere |
Georgia O,Keeffe | 1887-1986 grew up in Wisconsin and studied art in Chicago and New York.while teaching art at a college in Canyon,Texas |