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| A perosn who embraces new ideas, styles, and social trends. |
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| During the Roaring 20s a young woman who broke with traditional expectations for how owman should dress and behave. |
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| A group of young Americans including EE Cummings, Ernest Hemingway, F.Scott Fitzgerald, John dos Passos and Sherwood as prominent post war writers. |
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| An arrangement in which a buyer makes a down payment on a product to be purchased and the seller loans the remainder of the purchase price to the buyer, the purchaser must pay back the loan overtime in monthly installments, or the seller can reclaim the product. |
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| An arrangement for buying something now with borrowed money and paying off the loan over time. |
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| A culture that views the consumption of large quantities of goods as benefical to the economy and a source of personal happiness. |
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| A nickname given to the 1920s because of the decades personality, prosperity, technological advances, and cultural boom. |
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| A dance that originated as an African American folk dance in the South and became popular throughout the US. |
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| The culture of ordinary people, including music, visual art, literature, and entertainment, thhat is shaped by industries that spread information and ideas especially the mass media. |
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| An organization created and run by it's members, as opposed to a strong central leader. |
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| A secret club that sold alcohol during the era of prohibition. |
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| A criminal trial, held in Dayton Ohio in 1925 that tested the constututionality of a Tennessee law that banned the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution in schools. Science teacher John Scope's was found guilty and fined for his conduct, leaving the Tennessee law intact. |
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| The belief that scripture should be read as the literal word of God and followed without question. |
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| An era of heightened creativity among African American writer, artists, and musicians, who gathered in Harlem during the 1920s. |
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| A person who has deep respect for long-held cultural and religious values. |
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| Conducted by Justice Depart. attorney J.Edgar Hoover at the instruction of U.S attorney General Mitchell Palmer, a series of unauthorized raids on homes, businesses, and meeting places of suspected subversives that resulted in the arrest of 6,000 radicals often without any evidence. |
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| A hotly protested criminal trial, held from 1920-1927 in which Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted of murdering 2 men and sentenced to death: many people believed that the trial was unfair and that the defendants were prosecuted becuae they were anarchists, not because they were guily. They are from Massachusetts |
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| A period in which there is a decline in economic activity and prosperity and only lasts for a short period of time. |
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| Established by the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921, a system limiting immigration to the US by permitting no more immigrants from a country than 3% of the number of that country residents living in the US in 1910. The Immigration Act of 1924 reduced the quota 2 percent of the number of a countries residents living in the US in 1890. |
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| Lasting from 1919-1920 a campaign launched by US attorney general Mitchell Palmer and implemented by Justice Depart. attorney H.Edgar Hoover to arrest communist and other radicals who promoted the overthow of the US government revived during the cold war by Senator Joseph McCarthy during a period of anticommunism. |
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| The act of discharging forces from military service or use. Transition from wartime to peacetime. |
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American Civil Liberties Union |
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| An organization founded in 1920 to defend American's rights and freedoms as given in the constitution. |
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| A movement led by marcus Garvey during 1910's and 1020's that promoted the return of blacks living all over the world to Africa. |
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| An economic or political system in which the state or the community owns all property and the means of production, and all citizens share the wealth. |
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| The act of lessening punishment. |
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| A point of view favoring extreme change, especially in social or economic structure. |
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| A person who takes the risk of buying something in hope of reselling it for a higher price. |
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| A 1920's get rich quick scheme in which real estate developers sold many Florida coast lots, some undesirable, to speculators in other parts of the country, causing prices to raise rapidly. |
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| The merging of 2 buisnesses. |
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| Developed by banker Charles Dawes, a plan for Germany to pay reparations after World War 1 by receiving loans from the US. |
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| An agreement made among most nations of the world in 1928 to try to settle international disputes by peaceful means rather than war. |
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| A government policy of not taking part in economic and political alliances or relations with other countrues. |
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| Began when Secretary of the Interior Fall persuaded Harding to give him control over national oil reserves in Elk Hills, California, and Teapot Dome Wyoming. When the bribes became public Senator Albert Fall resigned. |
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| Is characterized by private owenership of property, including land and resources. It relies on competition for profits and the forces of supply and demand to determine what goods and services should be produced at what price. |
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| The concept of life as it was before WW1, when the nation could focus on it's own domestic prosperity, which Republican candidate Warren.G.Harding promoted during the 1920 presidential election campaign and which helped him win the presidency. |
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| Known as "Lucky Lindy" and was the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. |
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| First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic ocean and became the first person to fly alone from Hawaii to California. In 1937 her plane vanished over the Pacific Ocean. |
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| Was a famous baseball player who first played on the Dodgers and then became a Yankees player. |
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| The organization's immediate goal was to stop the defamation or false accusations of the Jewish people. |
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| Ohio Senator who wanted peace and quiet. Wanted to go back to normalacy, was called robust. |
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| Nicknamed "Silent Cal" and viewed him as integrity, hardwork, and thriftiness. |
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| A Quaker believed in promoting business and wanted to bring industry leaders together to improve economic efficiency. Pledged to end poverty in the US |
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| Responsible for getting the US out of the Great Depression. Planned the New Deal |
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