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Calvin Coolidge
elected Vice President and succeeded as 30th President of the United States when Harding died in 1923 (1872-1933)
Speakeasy
A place for the illegal sale and consumption of alcoholic drinks
"a car in every garage"
Henry Ford motto
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
Congress displayed a pro-business attitude in passing the tariff and in promoting foreign trade through providing huge loans to the postwar Allied governments who returned the favor by buying American goods and by cracking down on strikes
A. Mitchell Palmer
was the Attorney General of the United States from 1919 to 1921. He was nicknamed The Fighting Quaker and he directed the controversial Palmer Raids.
Emergency Immigration Act
congress passed as a stopgap until a permenant well considered law could be written.
dawes Plan
A plan to revive the German economy, the United States loans Germany money which then can pay reparations to England and France, who can then pay back their loans from the U.S. This circular flow of money was a success.
1918 flu epidemic
was an influenza pandemic that started in the United States, appeared in West Africa and France and then spread to nearly every part of the globe
Charles Forbes
Part of the Ohio Gang who stole millions of dollars from the Veterans Bureau.
Strikes of the 1920's
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John W. Davis
an American politician, diplomat and lawyer. He served as an United States Representative from West Virginia (1911-1913) and Solicitor General and Ambassador to the Great Britain under President Woodrow Wilson. He is best known as a Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States during the 1924 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent Calvin Coolidge.
Labor Saving Devices
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Teapot Dome Scandal
a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921
Henry Ford
Ford's dream was to make an inexspensive car that nearly every American could own. At last Ford developed the assembly line metod, which he used to produced his Model T
Quota Law
that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 3% of the number of persons from that country living in the United States in 1910, according to United States Census figures
100% Americanism
slogan of second Ku Klux Klan
Xenophobia
fear or hatred of foreigners
Washington Conference
was a military conference called by the administration of President Warren G. Harding and held in Washington, D.C. from 12 November 1921 to 6 February 1922. Conducted outside the auspices of the League of Nations, it was attended by nine nations having interests in the Pacific Ocean and East Asia.
Al Capone
Gangster wanted by the government for the illegal sale of alcohol.
Mass Production
The manufacture of many identical products by the division of labor into many small repetitive tasks.
Charles Lindbergh
United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1902-1974)
Bootlegger
someone who makes or sells illegal liquor
Alfred B. Fall
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Red Scare (1919)
a nation-wide anti-radical hysteria provoked by a mounting fear and anxiety
Prohibition
the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
Sacco and Vanzetti
In 1920 these two men were convicted of murder and robbery. They were found guilty and died in the electric chair unfairly
Volstead Act
The Act specified that "no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, furnish or possess any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act." It did not specifically prohibit the purchase or use of intoxicating liquors
Warren G. Harding
a senetor from Ohio chosen by the republicans to be a candidate after WW1
McNary-Haugen Bill
was a proposed bill in the 1920s to limit agricultural sales within the United States, and either store them or export them
Isolationism
policy of avoiding foreign involvement
Andrew Mellon
was an American banker, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector and Secretary of the Treasury from March 4, 1921 until February 12, 1932. He is the only Secretary of the Treasury to have served under three United States Presidents (Harding, Coolidge and Hoover).
Ohio Gang
Harding's "advisors" who played poker, drank, and smoked with him in the White House
The Great Migration
200,000 to 500,000 africans moved north from 1915 to 1930
Harry M. Daugherty
was an American politician. He is best known as a Republican Party boss, and member of the Ohio Gang, the name given to the group of advisors surrounding president Warren G. Harding.
Bathtub Gin
homemade gin especially that made illegally
18th Amendment
Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages
Pan-Am Airlines
1st airline service
Wets and Drys
drys favored prohibitons and wets opposed it
2nd Ku Klux Klan
used vilonece and threats was against jews catholics and immigrants.
Kellogg-Briand Pact
an international treaty "providing for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy." It failed in its purpose but was significant for later developments in international law

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