Vocabulary
Borrowing money to buy stocks
Buying on Margin
A situation where the supply is more than the deman.
Overproduction.
Famous jazz trumpeter nicknamed Satchmo.
Louis Armstrong.
Famous actor during the 1920's stared in a lot of comedies.
Charlie Chaplin.
The growing popularity of this entertainment produced a new kind of celebrity.
Sports.
Buying on credit
Installment buying
An extra payment.
Bonus
President in 1924, soft-spoken, serious New Englander.
Calvin Coolidge.
President in 1920, promised a return to normalcy.
Warren Harding.
The automobile created new ______________, like gas stations, roadside restaurants, and cabins that sprang up along newly built highways.
Businesses.
A total ban on alcohol
Prohibition
Music that combined rhythms from W. Africa, the Caribbean, the South, and Europe.
Jazz.
Author in the 1920's, wrote the Great Gatsby.
Sinclair Lewis.
Jamaican immigrant, created the Universal Negro improvement association.
Marcus Garvey.
John Scopes was accused of violating Tennessee law by teaching the theory of _____________ to his students.
John Scopes.
Reduction of military weapons
Disarmament
Liquor smugglers.
Bootleggers.
Author in the 1920's who wrote the Babbitt.
Sinclair Lewis.
Cabinet member who took bribes in the Teapot Dome scandal and was sent to prison.
Albert B. Falls.
On March 21, 1918, the German army unleased a series of daring attacks known as what to defeat the Allies quickly and end the war on their terms.
Peace Offensive.
People who oppose all forms of organized government.
Anarchists.
Illegal taverns that served liquor.
Speakeasies.
Mrs. Alopopo's intelligent Man!!
Abraham Lincoln......lol
Queen of Hawaii who worked for independence from foreign control.
Queen Liliuokalani.
By the beginning of June 1918, Germany had reached the town of Chateau-Thierry, on the Marne River, less than 50 miles from where?
Paris.