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He was Secretery of the Interior during Harding's administration, and was a scheming anticonservationist

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1. He was Secretery of the Interior during Harding's administration, and was a scheming anticonservationist. He was convicted of leasing naval oil reserves and collecting bribes, which was called the Teapot Dome scandal.
2. Became president when Harding died of pneumonia. He was known for practicing a rigid economy in money and words, and acquired the name "Silent Cal" for being so soft-spoken. He was a true republican and industrialist. Believed in the government supporting big business.
3. The process of urban areas expanding outwards, usually in the form of suburbs, and developing over fertile agricultural land.
4. A payment plan that allows customers to make payments at set intervals over a period of time until the total debt is paid. (Major cause of the Depression)
5. a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
6. Illegal bar that served liquor during Prohibition
7. person who smuggled liquor into the United States during Prohibition
8. Conservative beliefs in the Bible and that it should be literally believed and applied
9. A famed criminal defense lawyer for Scopes, who supported evolution. He caused William Jennings Bryan to appear foolish when Darrow questioned Bryan about the Bible.
10. a highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school