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21st amendment – a law which repealed the 18th amendment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 ware 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 groups 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
How did the behavior of some women change during the 1920’s? – Wore short dresses, wore lots of makeup, cut their hair short, went to speakeasies, smoked, drank
Why did the lives of women change in the 1920’s? – Went to college, worked outside the home, played sports, voted, became independent
What were two problems of the 1920’s? – 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.
How did Calvin Coolidge encourage economic growth in the 1920’s? – 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.