1920s Study Guide – Flashcards
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"normalcy"
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this was President Harding's slogan which meant that America would return to normal now that a Republican was in charge
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Prohibition
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ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor anywhere in the US from 1920 to 1933
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Bootleggers
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people who smuggled alohol into the US from Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean during Prohibition
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speakeasies
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illegal bars that opened in nearly every city and town
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18th Amendment
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Prohibition
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Flapper
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name for young women who rebelled against traditional ways of thinking and acting
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fad
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an activity or fashion that is taken up with great passion for a short amount of time
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Laissez-Faire
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idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs
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Kellog-Briand Pact
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the US and 61 other countries signed this treaty which outlawed war
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Quota Act
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system that limited immigration by allowing only a certain number of people from each country to immigrate to the US
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Prosperity
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Coolidge cut government regulation on the economy. Stocks soared and the economy boomed then crashed.
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Anarchists
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people who oppose organized government
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Communists
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called on workers everywhere to overthrow their governments
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Sacco & Vanzetti
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the trial of these two italian immigrants came to symbolize the anti-foreign feelings. these men were arrested for robbery and murder. they got convicted and sentenced to death.
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Red Scare
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America was on the alert for enemy spies; this led to a growing fear of foreigners.
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KKK
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group that uses terror to keep African-Americans and other groups such as immigrants, Catholics, and Jews, in fear in order to prevent any type of social changes
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Harlem Renaissance
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rebirth of African-American culture
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Isolationists
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policy of the US staying out of world affairs
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installment buying
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means buying on credit
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bull market
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a period of increased stock trading and rising stock prices
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Warren G. Harding
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President, his slogan was "back to normalcy"
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Calvin Coolidge
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President after Harding, prosperity
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Herbert Hoover
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President, secretary of commerce
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Langston Hughes
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poet, protested racism and acts of violence against African Americans
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Henry Ford
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introduced assembly line
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Babe Ruth
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most popular baseball player, became stars of the Yankees
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Charles Lindbergh
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greatest hero, flew nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean
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Amelia Earhart
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most famous female pilot
