Roaring 20's

This was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater and politics spanning the 1920s and 1930s.

• teapot dome

  scandal

• great

  migration

• Harlem

  renaissance

• Harlem

  Rejuvenation

This was the policy of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration whose main principle was that of non-intervention and non-interference in the domestic affairs of Latin America. 

• Monroe

  Doctrine

• Banana

  Republic

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Good neighbor

  policy

This is the term used to describe a line of credit or loan extended to a personal, household, or business entity for use by the recipient; the credit and/or loan is scheduled to be paid back incrementally or as a whole at a later date

• Personal

  Credit

• Interpersonal

  credit

• intrapersonal

  credit

• introspection

  credit

This was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine that states that the United States will intervene in conflicts between the European countries and Latin American countries to enforce legitimate claims of the European powers, rather than having the Europeans press their claims directly.

• Good neighbor

  policy

• Roosevelt

  Corollary

• Monroe

  Doctrine

• Roosevelt

  Doctrine

This is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime.

• Rock and Roll

• hip-Hop

• Jazz

• Swing

This was the American fruit company responsible for the formation of several banana republics in Latin America and the Caribbean, including the overthrow of the Guatemalan government via coup in 1954.

• banana

  republic

• United Fruit

  Company

• Standard

  Fruit

  Company

• Dole

n U.S. politics, this is a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state.

• political

  machine

• Boss

  Tweed

• Organized

  Crime

• cronyism

This is the aggregation of buyers and sellers of stocks (equity in a company), which represent ownership claims on businesses.

• Buyers

• supply and

  demand

• stock market

• stock

  store

This was the Caribbean nation that was invaded several times by the U.S. Marines in order to stabilize the government, protect American interests, and secure the repayment of defaulted international debts.

• Cuba

• Jamaica

• Haiti

• Puerto

  Rico

This was the name of an infamous American politician in the late-19th century that operated a powerful political machine through the Democratic Party.

• Boss

  Tweed

• Al

  Capone

• Charles

  Luciano

• Warren

  Harding