Financing a purchase by making small monthly payments until the item is paid for.

Famous Yankee baseball player who was known as "the Sultan of Swat".

These spread to many homes, allowing people to communicate more easily with one another.

High tariff that established a nearly insurmountable wall restricting European trade with the U.S.

Became the goal of a people wishng to distance themselves from wartime pressures and problems.

Buying something with the hope of selling it later at a profit.

1st person to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean, from New York to Paris.

The major medium of news and entertainment for the nation in the 20s.

Effort that reduced German reparation payments significantly and encouraged Americans to help rebuild Germany by lending money.

American desire to avoid foreign entanglement and wars.

A stock market characterized by optimism and rising prices.

German scientist who came up with the theory of relativity.

These improved transportation as well as now being stylish and coming in many different color options.

Scandal involving President Harding's Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall.

Movement started by Christians who believed that the Bible was to be taken literally and was verbally inspired.

A stock market characterized by pessimism and declining stock prices.

Lived in Chicago and was probably the most infamous gangster of the 20s.

This began to coax the public to buy things even if they did not need the products or have the money to buy the products.

Act that set quotas to restrict immigration.

A group formed to oppose Radical Reconstruction and frighten freedmen and whites sympathetic to the freedmen to prevent them from voting.

Purchasing stock through a broker but only paying a percentage of purchase price while the broker finances the remaining amount for the investor with money borrowed from the bank or other sources.

New Yorker who established the Universal Negro Improvement Association.

Introduced in 1927 by Henry Ford because people wanted something sleek and with more class.

Case of alleged murder where some thought the 2 men had been convicted because they were Italian-born aliens and anarchists, not because of the evidence.

Movement in which black intellectuals and writers achieved prominence (included James Weldon Johnson, Alain Locke, and Langston Hughes).