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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
- idk
- 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
- idk
- 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
- idk
- 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