The Roaring twenties Flashcards
Warren G. Harding
29th president of the USA
Calvin Coolidge
Vice president and became 30th president when he took over for Warren G. Harding
James M. Cox
46th and 48th governor of Ohio
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd president of us
Andrew Mellon
United States financier and philanthropist
Teapot Dome Scandal
Oil discovered
Albert Fall
Went to jail for oil scandals
John W. Davis
English navigator who explored the Arctic while searching for the Northwest Passage
Kellogg-Briand Pact
international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war
Henry Ford
Came up with the model T
Model T
Fords Vehicel
Moving Assembly Line
Where people work together to assemble something
Herbert Hoover
31 President of the USA
Nellie Taylor Rose
First Woman Governor
Miriam “Ma” Ferguson
First female goverener of Texas
Flappers
a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior
Red Scare
a peirod of genral fear for communist
Communism
a political theroy
Palmer Raids
attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical leftists
Nicola Sacco
United States anarchist
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
was convicted of murder and in spite of worldwide protest was executed
ACLU
American Civil Liberties Union
National Origins Act of 1924
2 percent for any given nationality
Eighteenth Amendment
an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920