| A | B |
|---|
| Red Scare | America's fear of Bolsheviks or Russian communists coming to America and destroy democracy. |
| KKK | Domestic terrorist group. Reaches it's peak during the 1920's. |
| radio | New technology. Helped to create "mass culture" events. |
| automobile industry | spawned billboards, gas stations, highway construction, hotels. |
| sexual revolution | created an atmosphere sexual frankness during the 1920's, especially among the young. |
| Republican pro business stance | weakened unions and anti-trust legislation. |
| American distrust of arms race and war | led to the Disarment Conference & Five Power Naval Agreement |
| Stock Market Crash 1929 | Led to the worst financial disaster in US History. |
| Pres. Hoover | Limited response to the financial disaster of 1929. |
| French and English loans to US | led these countries to demand war reparations from Germany. |
| Kellogg Briand Pact | Useless agreement between US & other nations to outlaw war. |
| Hawley Smoot Tariff | unreasonably high tariff that caused worldwide economic panic. |
| Manchuria | Chinese province invaded by Japan. Chinese experience horrific brutality at the hands of the Japan. |
| Bonus Army marchers | WWI veterans denied their pensions so they march on Washington. |
| Hoovervilles | makeshift cardboard homes for Americans who lost everything in the crash. |
| Ohio Gang | Pres. Hardings scandal ridden White House Cabinet. |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | Oil scandal involving members of Pres. Harding's Cabinet. |
| Adkins v. Children's Hospital | ended a minimus wage for women & removed workplace protections for women. |
| speculation | risky investments in stock market, housing, or other venture. |
| business cycle | the predicatable pattern of the economy to go up & down in prosperity. |
| tenement farmers | work on land owned by someone else. |
| trickle down theory | idea that tax cuts for the wealthy will create more jobs and higher wages for the workers. |
| A Mitchell Palmer | US attorney general who sponsored the roundup of 6,000 immigrants to prove communism had infiltrated the US. |
| Charles Lindbergh | Aviation hero who flew nonstop between New York to Paris and back. |
| prohibition | 18th amendment that outlawed alcohol manufacture, sale, or transportation for ten years. |
| bootlegger | someone who transported alcohol illegally. |
| Al Capone | Infamous gangster who made his fortune killing and selling illegal alcohol. |
| John Scopes | Teacher tried and found guilty of teaching evolution in a Tenn. high school. |
| Andrew Mellon | Secretary of Treasury who cut taxes for the rich to promote business investment. |
| Harlem Renaissance | Celebration of Black culture, music, art, and literature. |
| Ku Klux Klan | Domestic terrorist group that reaches a peak during the 1920's. |
| bull market | great time to be an investor in the stock market as prices are rising and are stable. |
