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bootlegger |
a person who makes, sells, or transports liquor illegally |
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speakeasy |
a place where alcoholic beverages were sold illegally during Prohibition |
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temperance movement |
an effort to promote moderation and, more often, complete abstinence in alcohol consumption |
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suffragist |
a person who supports extension of the right to vote, especially to women |
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alien law |
a law that prevented certain people from immigrating to the United States |
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anarchist |
a person who does not believe in any form of government |
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Reds |
a nickname for communists or people thought to be communists |
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sedition law |
a law that made it a crime for anyone to speak against the government |
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black migration |
the movement of more than one million black people from the rural South to the cities of the North |
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flappers |
young women of the 1920s who dressed in a bold, new style |
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Creole |
a person of Spanish or French and African-American descent |
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Aaron Copland |
an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. |
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stock |
shares in a company |
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stock exchange |
the place where stocks are bought and sold |
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stock market |
the business of buying and selling stocks |
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stockbroker |
the person who buys and sells stock for another person |
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Dust Bowl |
the name given to the region that was devastated by drought during the Depression years due to the drastic reduction of grasslands, drought, light soil and high winds. |
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Bonus Army |
the name given to 20,000 World War I veterans who marched to Washington to see President Hoover in an effort to get the bonus Congress had promised them for their war service |
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capitalism |
the economic system in which individuals or companies, rather than the government, own most factories and businesses, and in which laborers produce products for a wage |
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pacifist |
a person who is opposed to the use of force under any circumstance |
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two methods for amending the Constitution |
1. 2/3 of the Congress (both the Senate and the House of Representatives) must propose the amendment and then approve (ratify) it. 2. 2/3 of the states c all for a Constitutional convention to amend the Constitution. Then, 3/4ths of the states must ratify the amendment. |
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Prohibition |
the legal act of prohibiting the manufacture, storage, transportation and sale of alcohol including alcoholic beverages. |
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freedom of speech |
the attorney general of the United States violated this during the Red Scare. |
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Warren G. Harding |
created the Bureau of the Budget, reduced the national debt, cut taxes, and appointed black men to public office. Harding put some of his friends in important jobs that they were not qualified for. Some were crooks who stole money from the country. |
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Calvin Coolidge |
He was against active government. The nation prospered during his administration and, at the time, most Americans thought he was a good president. |
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Great Migration |
Between 1910 and 1920, more than 1 million black people left the South and moved to the North and Midwest to find better jobs, better schooling, and a chance to get ahead. |
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Harlem Renaissance |
explosion of artistic excellence and creativity in Harlem. |
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Roaring Twenties |
a phrase used to refer to the 1920s in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, characterizing the decade's distinctive cultural edge in New York City, Montreal, Chicago, Berlin, London, Los Angeles, and many other major cities during a period of sustained economic prosperity. |
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Babe Ruth |
His power as a hitter helped change the emphasis in baseball from defense (a pitcher’s game) to offense (a hitter’s game.) |
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Jesse Owens |
an African - American track star. |
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Jackie Mitchell |
17 years old when she signed on with the Chattanooga Look- outs as a pitcher. She struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. |
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jazz |
blended African rhythms with European forms to create a uniquely American sound with roots in New Orleans. Spread to the rest of the country during the great black migration of the 1920's. |
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Charles Lindbergh |
became a national and world hero in 1927 when he completed the first nonstop, solo transatlantic flight in his single-engine plane the Spirit of St. Louis. |
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Robert Goddard |
He developed the idea of using a series of rockets to reach the moon. He also devised parachutes to allow rockets to return to earth smoothly. All in all, he patented more than 200 of his ideas. |
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Edwin Hubble |
an astronomer whose work confirmed Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. He concluded that the universe isn’t static— it is expanding and has changed over time. |
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Louis Armstrong |
One of the greatest jazz performers who played the trumpet on riverboats that went up and down the Mississippi River. Many people credit hi m with inventing the jazz solo. |
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Duke Ellington |
His music reflected his African heritage, European atonal theory, and Western classical tradition, but his style was his own. His music remains hard to classify; some say it’s jazz, and others really don’t know what it is. |
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George Gershwin |
composer who incorporated jazz elements into his compositions. |
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Amelia Earhart |
the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an airplane. Although she was just a passenger, it made her a celebrity. Four years later she flew the Atlantic herself, as Lindbergh had done. It was a big moment for women and for aviation. |
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Bessie Coleman |
became America’s first licensed black pilot. Because of discrimination, she had to learn to fly in France. |
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Herbert Hoover |
the president who thought government should support business. That would strengthen the economy and business money would “trickle down” to the people. He did not want government money spent on relief programs. He thought people could help themselves. Known for the promise : "A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage". |
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Al Smith |
Presidential candidate who was feared among Protestants who believed that the Catholic Church and the Pope would dictate his policies. |
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Great Depression |
was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. |
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shantytown |
also knows as "Hoovervilles" these were built out of cardboard boxes and discarded metal. It was common for American cities to have an area like this where homeless people lived during the Great Depression. |
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Walt Disney |
pioneered animated movies with his short feature, Steamboat Willie, in 1928 |
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Clarence Darrow |
famous lawyer defended John Scopes, who was arrested for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school. |
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buying on margin |
borrowing money from a stockbroker to purchase shares |
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Joseph Stalin |
was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s |
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amendment |
implemented to allow changes to be made to the U.S. Constitution. |
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Attorney General Mitchell Palmer |
used America's fear of communism to illegally arrest 5,000 suspected communists and anarchists |
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19th Amendment |
Gave women the right to vote. |
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Sacco-Vanzetti trial |
controversial murder trial in Massachusetts, U.S., extending over seven years. Two Italian anarchists who had immigrated to the United States in 1908, one a shoemaker and the other a fish peddler, were convicted of murder. This angered many socialists and radicals who felt they were convicted due to their anarchist beliefs. |
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Teapot Dome |
a scandal involving a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1924, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. |
