| A | B |
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| Nine Powers Treaty | Put the Open Door Policy into the form of a treaty |
| Fordney-McCumber Act | 1922 tariff law that raised import duties |
| Emergency Quota Act | Legislation that severly cut the number of people admitted into the U.S. |
| National Origins Act | Law that made immigration restrictions a permanent policy |
| Assembly Line | Method of manufacturing in which production is divided into simple tasks |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | Treaty that tried to outlaw war |
| Standardized Parts | Pieces made to fit a standard |
| Flappers | Women who danced the charleston |
| Reparations | Payment for war damages |
| Technological Unemployment | Job loss when occupations became obsolete |
| Spirit of St. Louis | Small airplane that flew nonstop across the Atlantic |
| Prohibition | The law forbidding the making, transportation, sale, and possession of alcohol |
| Tin Lizzie | Henry Ford's model T automobile |
| Ku Klux Klan | Secret society opposed to African Americans, Jews, Catholics, and "foreign ideas" |
| Speakeasies | Secret night club for drinking illegally |
| Bootleggers | Those who make, sell or transport for sale alcoholic liquor |
| Open Shop | situation in which workers do NOT have to join a union |
| Mass Production | The manufacture of goods in large quantities using standard designs and the assemble line |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | An area near Casper, Wyoming set aside in 1915 as an oil resserve. Hardings Sec. of Interior leased the land to investors for $300,000 in bribes |
| Demobilize | The process of returning to a peacetime economy. |
| Red Scare | Widespread fear of political radicals, particularly Communists, who were nicknamed Reds. |
| Palmer Raids | Raids on suspected radical organization, often without warrants. They took place in January 1920. |
| Xenophobia | The fear and hatred of foreigners. |
| American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) | An organization formed to protect people's constitution rights. |
| Ohio Gang | Harding's political appointments of old friends to fill government posts |
| Teapot Dome scandal | Albert Fall's illegall renting of two naval oil reserves to oil companies. |
| Disarment | The practice of limiting or reducing military weapons. |
| Washington Conference | Delegates of major countries discussed naval disarmament of the major world powers and Asian affairs. |
| Five-Power Naval Treaty | Limited the maximum size of the U.S., Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japanese navy with the U.S. and Great Britain allowed to have the two largest navies. |
| Model T | Nicknamed the Tin Lizzie the 1908 model developed by Henry Ford was durable and reliable. |
| Consumer Society | When people are encouraged to buy products to improve their lives and help the economy |
| Installment Plan | The program that let customers buy goods by making a small down payment followed by additional monthly payments with interest. |
| Synthetic | Artificial fabrics like rayon |
| Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act | Designed to raise the demand for domestic crops by taxing imported farm products. |
| Anti-Saloon League | Formed in 1893 asked it members to vote only for candidates who would ban alcohol use. |
| Volstead Act | Set federal punishnments for the manufacture and sale of alcohol went into effect January 1920. |
| 21st Amendment | Ended national prohibition on 12/5/1933. |
| Fundamentalism | Believed the Bible is literally true and consider it an indisputable authority. |
| Scopes trial symbolized | The country's struggle with changing times. |
| Immigration Act of 1924 | Completely stopped Japanese immigration and set new limits for other countries based on the 1890 census. |
| Emergency Quota Act | Law that set total U.S. immigration at 357,000 a year. |
| Great Migration | Mass movement of African Americans who left the South because of racism and poverty. |
| Universal Negro Improvement Association | End imperialism in Africa and discrimination in the U.S. |
| Indian Citizenship Act | June 1924 law gave all American Indians legal voting rights of U.S. citizens. |
| fads | Interests that many people follow with great excitement for a short time. |
| Nickelodeon | Common type of early movie theater which usually cost five cents. |
| Talkies | Movies with music or dialogue. |
| Jazz Age | Decade when people world wide enjoyed uniquely American style music. |
| Harlem Renaissance | Remarkable time of African American artistic achievement. |
| Lost Generation | What the group of writers who spoke out against post WW I American society were called. |
| Expatriates | People who leave their native country to live elsewhere. |
| American Plan | An open shop where union membership was not required and sometimes forbidden. |
