Roaring 20's Chapter 9

Mass production

Making many identical products at once

Assembly Line

Each person does one job and then passes the product along

Division of Labor

Dividing the work

Tin Lizzie

The nickname for Henry Ford's Model T

Boom

A time when the country's economy is doing especially well

18th amendment

A law which prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol

21st amendment

A law which repealed the 18th amendment

Speakeasy

A bar which sold illegal alcohol

Nativism

Belief that native-born Americans are superior to foreigners

Economy

Refers to how a society manages the production, buying, and selling of goods and services

Jack Dempsey

A boxing champion

Babe Ruth

First baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season

Bessie Coleman

First African American woman to get a pilot's license

Louis Armstrong

A famous jazz musician who played the trumpet

Harlem Globetrotters

A group of famous African Americans who play basketball and do stunts

Amelia Earhart

A female aviator who set many records - she disappeared

W C Handy

A jazz musician from Alabama

Duke Ellington

A famous jazz musician - well known for playing the piano

Langston Hughes

A famous African-American poet and writer

Al Capone

Famous gangster who was a leader of a mob - spent time in Alcatraz

Charles Lindbergh

First person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean nonstop

Behavior change of some women during the 1920s

Wore short dresses, wore lots of makeup, cut their hair short, went to speakeasies, smoked, drank

Reasons for the change in women's lives in the 1920s

Went to college, worked outside the home, played sports, voted, became independent

Problems of the 1920s

Prohibition and fear of radicalism

President Harding

Republican, Wanted a return to normalcy, Isolationist, Big personality, Hired friends in his cabinet

Teapot Dome Scandal

Harding's secretary of interior leased government property put in prison, He died on vacation while still president

Calvin Coolidge's encouragement of economic growth in the 1920s

Republican, Government should stay out of people's lives as much as possible, Government should help struggling businesses, Cut spending, Lower taxes, Overturned laws regulating child labor and women's pay, Known as Silent Cal

President Hoover

Republican, During WWI he organized food relief for Europe, Favored a ban on outlawing alcohol, Believed we should economize, save, and share with others.