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

1. Albert B. Fall

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. Calvin Coolidge

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. urban sprawl

The process of urban areas expanding outwards, usually in the form of suburbs, and developing over fertile agricultural land.

4. installment plan

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. Prohibition

a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages

6. speakeasy

Illegal bar that served liquor during Prohibition

7. bootlegger

person who smuggled liquor into the United States during Prohibition

8. fundamentalism

Conservative beliefs in the Bible and that it should be literally believed and applied

9. Clarence Darrow

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. Scopes Trial

a highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school