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Great Migration
The movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West. -
Flappers
Generation of young western women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. -
Prohibition
A nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages. -
Organized Crime
Federal efforts to enforce prohibition, including raids on speakeasies, were countered by well-organized bootlegging operations with national and international connections. -
Jazz Age
a period in the 1920's, ending with the great depression, in which jazz music and dance styles became popular. -
Red Scare
Promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism about worker revolution and political radicalism. -
Movies
A vast expansion of Hollywood film making. Throughout the decade, film production focused on the feature film rather than the "short" or "two-reeler." -
Buying On the Margin
Ninety percent of the purchase price of the stock was being made with borrowed money. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. -
Calvin Coolidge (Laissez Faire)
Belief that less government interference in business made for prosperity. Calvin was known as "Silent Cal" for his quiet manner and Laissez Faire economics. -
Welfare Capitalism
Practice of businesses providing welfare services to their employees. -
Kellogg–Briand Pact
International agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve disputes or conflicts. -
Black Tuesday
Share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed, becoming a pivotal factor in the emergence of the Great Depression. -
Harlem Renaissance
Cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem. -
Amelia Earhart
First female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean.
