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Drummond 13 and 14
Roaring 20's and The Great Depression
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A 1920’s term used to describe a new type of young woman; rebellious, energetic, fun-loving and bold | Flapper |
| A change in society | Social Change |
| The Constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote | 19th Amendment |
| A movement by a group of people. | Migration |
| A district lying immediately outside a city especially a smaller residential community | Suburb |
| Another name for the 1920’s which was noted for increased prosperity, liberated social behavior, Prohibition, bootleg liquor, and the development and popularity of jazz and ragtime and associated ballroom dances. | Jazz Age |
| A group of writers in the 1920’s who shared the belief that they were lost in a greedy, materialistic world that lacked moral value, and who were disconnected from their country | The Lost Generation |
| African American literary awakening of the 1920’s, centered in Harlem, New York | Harlem Renaissance |
| The amendment to the Constitution that prohibited all alcoholic beverages. | 18th Amendment |
| A time when the sale and making of alcohol was not allowed. | Prohibition |
| The illegal making, selling and/or distributing of alcohol | Bootlegging |
| Bars that operated illegally during the time of Prohibition | Speakeasies |
| A set of religious beliefs including traditional Christian ideas about Jesus Christ, the belief that the Bible was inspired by God and does not contain contradictions or errors, and is literally true. | Fundamentalism |
| A 1925 court case argued by Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan in which the issue of teaching evolution in public schools was debated. | Scopes Trial |
| An organization founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination, to oppose racism, and to gain equal rights for African Americans. | NAACP |
| Intense Fear of Communism and other politically radical ideas | Red Scare |
| Official ideology of the Soviet Union, characterized there by complete government ownership of land and property, single-party control of the government, the lack of individual rights, and the call for worldwide revolution | Communism |
| Program in which the nations of the world voluntarily give up their weapons | disarmament |
| A policy of favoring native-born Americans over immigrants | Nativism |
| An economy that depends on a large amount of spending by a consumer | Consumer Economy |
| A payment plan that allows customers to make payments at set intervals over a period of time until the total debt is paid | Installment Plan |
| Total annual value of goods and services a county produces | GNP (Gross National Product) |
| An economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine prices | Laissez-faire economy |
| An approach to labor relations in which companies meet some of their workers’ needs without prompting by unions, thus preventing strikes and keeping productivity high | Welfare capitalism |
| The practice of making high-risk investments in hopes of getting a huge return. | speculation |
| An option that allows investors to purchase a stock for only a fraction of its price and borrow the rest | Buying on the margin |
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