MAAP Review 1920s Vocabulary

Buying products based on credit.

• installment plan

• mortgage

• speculation

• buying on margin

1920’s-Rebirth in African American Culture; jazz music, art, and literature.

• Harlem Renaissance

• Great Migration

• Sharecropper Movement

• Exodusters

A buyer of goods and services

• consumer

• seller

• merchant

• producer

A secret club or bar where people could drink alcohol, dance and gamble. Had to “speak” a password to get in.

• speakeasy

• bootlegger bar

• flapper watering hole

• mob lounge

 The fear that communists would overthrow the U.S. government after WWI

• Red Scare

• Palmerism

• McCarthyism

• Communismphobia

Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald exposed excessive wealth, over consumption, racism and prohibition in his characters.

• The Great Gatsby

• The Great Society

• The Great Prosperity

• The Great Fitzgerald

State of Tennessee v. John Scopes tested the Tennessee law banning the teaching of evolution in schools. Conflict

between

modern-ism v. tradition-ism

Evolution v. creationism

Science v. religion

• Scopes Monkey Trial

• Darrow Monkey Trial

• Tennessee Monkey Trial

• Evolution Monkey Trial

A scandal: President Warren G. Harding’s administration Illegally leased public land (Natl. Park) for oil companies to drill and kept the bribe money.

(Oil reserved for the Navy)

• Teapot Dome Scandal

• Whiskey Ring Scandal

• Lewinsky Scandal

• Watergate Scandal

Foreign, pro-business domestic policy.

• Return to Normalcy Policy

• Fair Deal Policy

• Square Deal Policy

• Great Society

Middle-class women

Short hair

wore short dresses

drank and smoked

• flappers

• mobsters

• scopers

• speakeasies