World War I Vocabulary

Republican president who won the 1920 election with the promise to bring the country back to normalcy, stability, and prosperity; faced many scandals and died of a heart attack

• Calvin Coolidge

• Warren G. Harding

• Henry Ford

• Richard Nixon

Vice President who took over once Harding died; he was well respected, honest, and trustworthy; pro business and ended the scandals and the post-war recession

• Calvin Coolidge

• Warren G. Harding

• Flapper

• Theodore Roosevelt

 Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall secretly leased oil reserves in return for bribes, money, and gifts; resulted in him being the first Cabinet member to be arrested

• Red Scare

• Prohibition

• Teapot Dome Scandal

• Great Migration

 An agreement signed by the U.S. and 14 other nations to outlaw war (62 nations eventually signed it)

• Bull Market

• Prohibition

• Scopes Trial

• Kellogg-Briand Pact

Henry Ford’s sturdy, identical, and reliable automobile, which was more affordable and accessible (easily available) to ALL Americans

• Tesla

• Ford's Model-T

• Assembly Line

• Model Train

A good stock market, prices are high and increasing

• Uprising

• Bull Market

• Happy Economy

• Recession

 Young women who cut their hair short and wore makeup and short dresses, openly challenging traditional ideas of how women were supposed to behave

• Great Migration

• Stylists

• Twenty-First Amendment

• Flappers

 A time of chaos and strikes in which Americans were fearful of Communism (radicals and anarchists); began when bombs were found hidden in several packages addressed to public officials

• Emergency Quota Act of 1921

• Red Scare

• Great Migration

• Jazz Age

 Law which limited the total number of immigrants allowed into the country

• Salary Cap

• Emergency Quota Act of 1921

• Twenty-First Amendment

• Immigration Act

 The time period in which the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages was outlawed due to the 18th Amendment

• Bull Market

• Jazz Age

• Enlightened Period

• Prohibition