| A | B |
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| Langston Hughes | African American poet during the Harlem Renaissance |
| Duke Ellington | famous African American jazz pianist |
| Charles Lindbergh | flew the Spirit of St. Louis from New York to Paris |
| Amelia Earhart | first woman to fly over the Atlantic alone |
| Babe Ruth | baseball hero |
| jazz | blend of spirituals, work songs and blues |
| The Jazz Singer | the first talkie |
| Henry Ford | man who invented the assembly line |
| Tin Lizzie | nickname for Model T Ford |
| installment buying | paying small, regular amounts for a product over time before obtaining the product |
| communism | a system in which property is owned by the society instead of by individuals |
| recession | economic downturn |
| capitalism | economic system based on private property and free enterprise |
| nativism | belief that immigrants threaten traditional American culture; that natives are superior to foreigners |
| isolationism | a principle of staying out of foreign affairs |
| prohibition | the banning of the manufacture, transport and sale of liquor |
| flapper | bold, carefree young woman of the 1920’s |
| quota system | arrangement placing a limit on the number of immigrants from a specific country |
| deport | to expel from a country |
| speakeasies | illegal clubs where alcohol was served |
| bootleggers | people who smuggled liquor into the United States |
| talkies | movies with spoken language |
| KKK | a group who hated anyone who was not white and Protestant and who hated anyone who was different |
| Red Scare | America’s fear that communism was taking over |
| anarchist | a person who believes all forms of government are bad |
| suburbs | communities on the outskirts of cities |
| assembly line | a factory system in which the product moves from worker to worker, each of whom performs 1 task to assemble the product |
| credit | a system in which a buyer takes home a product, then makes monthly payments until it is paid off |
| Harlem Renaissance | an African-American cultural movement in the 1920’s |
| Great Migration | large movement of African Americans from southern to northern cities |
| organized crime | turning illegal activities into business |
