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The Teapot Dome
When oil field on public land were loaned to private oil companies for a kickback, this scandal erupted. Led by Albert Fall
19th Amendment
Women’s Right to Vote
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Our country had lots of tension with this country. U.S had strict immigrant restrictions with them.
Japan
The Red Scare
A time period when Americans greatly
Palmer Raids-
When Mitchel Palmer and Edgar Hoover start the FBI to round up the reds - communists
Immigration
Moving from one place to another
Calvin Coolidge
Became president when Harding dies. Vice President for Warren Harding.
Quota
A maximum number or quantity that is permitted or needed.
Warren Harding
A very corrupt president whose administration was racked with scandalism.
Quota Act
Limited the # of immigrants from each country to 3%
Communism
A form of government that promoted everything owned by the people.
KKK
Originally started by Nathan Bedford Forrest after the civil war. White supremacist group that hated blacks, Jews, Catholics, and Homosexuals.
Wrote the great gatsby, this side of paradise, the beautiful and damned, and tender is the night, was a jazz age authors.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
First women to fly across the Atlantic
Amelia Earhart
President who unsuccessfully tried to fix the Great Depression through volunteer effort.
Herbert Hoover
Someone who has made alcohol illegally and smuggles it for a profit.
Bootlegger.
The Great Bambino or Sultan of Swat. Famous baseball player from 1914-1935.
Babe Ruth
Made drinking and selling alcohol was illegal
Prohibition - 18th Amendment
Great Jazz Musicians-
Louis Armstrong, Count Bessie, Due Ellington.
A place where alcohol was sold and consumed illegally.
Speakeasies
A worker who replaces a striking worker.
A scab
First person to fly transatlantic alone.
Charles Lindbergh