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| communism | an economic system that supported governemnt control over property to achieve equality |
| A. Mitchell Palmer | Attorney general under President Wilson who instituted searchs of people's houses |
| anarchist | individual oppposed to any and all forms of governments |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | immigrant anarchists accused and executed for murder |
| Calvin Coolidge | Massachusetts governor who became president after Harding Died |
| John L Lewis | President of the United Mine Workers |
| Warren G Harding | President who allowed laissez faire while in office, appointed poker buddies as cabinet members, died while in office, |
| Return to Normalcy | phrase coined by Harding that meant resuming life before WWi including conservatism and isolationism |
| xenophobia | fear of foreigners |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | International agreement that war should not be the policy of any nation |
| isolationist | opposed to participation in foreign affairs |
| Fordney-McCumber Tariff | high tax on imports adopted in 1922 |
| quota system | system that limited the numbe rof immigrants allowed into the United States |
| Charles Evan Hughes | Secretary of State under Harding |
| Ohio Gang | Hardings friends and Advisors |
| Albert B Fall | Secretary of Interior under Harding who leased oil rich land to a company in a big scandall |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | Scandal surrounding Albert Fall |
| urban sprawl | the outward expansion of cities |
| installment plan | an easy way to borrow money to buy goods |
| speakeasy | hidden sallons and night clubs that illegally sold liquor |
| bootlegger | smugglers who brought alochol in from Canada and Caribbean |
| Clarence Darrow | famous trial lawyer who defended John Scopes |
| Scopes Trial | Trial of John Scopes for teaching evolution |
| flapper | young women who embraced the new fashions and values of the 1920s |
| double standard | set of principles granting one group more freedom than another group |
| Babe Ruth | famous baseball player |
| Gertrude Ederle | first woman to swim the English Channel |
| Charles Lindberg | first person to fly solo across the Atlantic |
| George Gershwin | composer |
| Georgia O'Keefe | artist known for her southwest prints and huge flowers |
| Harlem Renaissance | African american artistic movment |
| Louis Armstrong | jazz musician from New Orleans ;nicknamed "Satchmo" |
| Duke Ellington | jazz musician |
| Bessie Smith | The empress of Blues |
| Langston Hughes | Harlem Renaissance Poet |
| Model T | first affordable car |
| Red Scare | fear of communism after wwi |
| Palmer Raids | resulf of Red Scare, imposed on Am. Civil Liberties |
| prohibition | ban on the mfg and sale of alcohol |
| 18th amendment | amendment at banned alcohol |
| 21st amendment | made it legal to buy , sell and consume alcohol again |
| fundamentalism | set of religious beliefs including trad. Christian ideas about Jesus, theb Bible was inspired by God and is literally true |
| John Scopes | Tried for teaching evolution |
| disarmament | a program in which the nations of the world would voluntarily give up the weapons |
| Schenck v. US | In this court case an opponent of war was convicted of violating the Espionage Act; seen as a clear and present danger |
| Gitlow v. New York | This court case tried a socialist of criminal anarchy who called to overthrow the govt. |
| GNP | total value of goods and services a country produces annually |
| assembly line | mfg process in which each worker does one specialized task in the consturction process in which each worker doe one specialized task in the construction of the final product |
| Herbert Hoover | formerly in charge of Food Administration during WWI; this republican was elected to the presidency in 1928 |
| speculation | speculation the practice of making high-risk investments in hopes of getting a huge return |
| Lost Generation | group of Americans who came of age during WWI |
| expatriates | group of writers like Ernest Hemingway who left the US during WWI |
