| A | B |
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| Boston Police Strike | striking officers were fired because Coolidge ruled that no strike can interfere with public safety |
| Red Scare | scare of socialism and communism in the U.S. |
| Palmer Raids | crackdown on suspected radicals |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | Italian immigrants arrested and convicted with flimsy evidence |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | immigrants sentenced to the death penalty |
| Warren G. Harding | President of the U.S. from 1921-1923 |
| Warren G. Harding | this president used the word normalcy to describe what he wanted for the U.S. |
| American Plan | a way to convince workers that unions were unnecessary |
| Ohio Gang | Harding's group of friends he brought with him to Washington |
| Ohio Gang | corrupt and unqualified officials working for President Harding |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | Albert Fall leased out government owned oil reserves and received kickbacks worth thousands of dollars |
| Calvin Coolidge | President of the U.S. from 1923-1929 |
| Calvin Coolidge | received the nickname "silent cal" |
| Calvin Coolidge | became president after Harding's death in 1923 |
| Assembly Line | Henry Ford developed this to help with the production of cars |
| Assembly Line | because of this cars were cheaper to buy |
| KDKA | the first radio station in Pittsburgh |
| The Jazz Singer | the first talking movie |
| Louis Armstrong | considered one of the founders of jazz |
| Jazz Age | another name for the decade of the 1920's |
| Babe Ruth | one of the nation's most famous baseball players |
| Duke Ellington | considered one of the founders of jazz |
| flappers | women who were unconventional |
| Charles Lindbergh | The Spirit of St. Louis |
| Charles Lindbergh | the first man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean |
| The Spirit of St. Louis | the name of Charles Lindbergh's plane |
| Sinclair Lewis | first American novelist to win a nobel prize |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby |
| Lost Generation | name given to a group of American writers between the two wars |
| Harlem Renaissance | black writers celebrate black life |
| McNary-Haugen Bill | government buy farm surpluses and sell them abroad |
| Black Migration | when blacks moved to northern industrial cities |
| Scopes Monkey Trial | a trial dealing with the issue of teaching evolution in the classroom |
| Scopes Monkey Trial | Clarence Darrow |
| Scopes Monkey Trial | William Jennings Bryan |
| Marcus Garvey | Universal Negro Improvement Association |
| Marcus Garvey | opened the Black Star Line to carry blacks back to Africa |
| Ku Klux Klan | a group of people that were known to persecute minorities |
| 18th Amendment | prohibited the sale, transporting, or making of any alcoholic beverages |
| Prohibition | the banning of alcoholic beverages |
| Volstead Act | provided for enforcement of prohibition |
| speakeasies | illegal bars or taverns |
| bootlegging | sale of illegal liquor |
| Al Capone | scarface |
| Al Capone | brought in millions of dollars through his role in organized crime |
