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ch 13 vocab
us history
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| flapper | new type of young woman; rebellious |
| demographic | statistic describe a population, such as a race or income |
| barrios | spanish-speaking neighborhood |
| mass media | prit and broadcast methods of communicating into to large numbers of people |
| jazz age | used to describe the 1920 |
| lost generation | group of writers who shared belief that they were lost in a greedy, materialistic world that lacked moral value and who often choose to flee to europe |
| harlem renaissance | african american literary awakening during the 1920s in harlem |
| bootlegger | a supplier of illegal alcohol during Prohibition |
| speakeasies | bars that opened illegally during prohibition |
| fundamentalism | set of religious beliefs including traditional christian ideas about jesus christ, belief the bible had no errors and is literary true |
| scopes trials | where clarence darrow vs william jennings argue whether to teach evolutionary theory in schools or not |
| communism | official ideology of the soiviet union characterized there as complete government ownership of land and property, single-party control as the government lack of individual rights and call for worldwide revolution |
| red scare | intense scare of communism and other political radical ideas |
| isolationism | policy of avoiding political or economic alliances with foreign countries |
| disarmament | program in which the nations of the world voluntarily give us their weapons |
| quota | numerical limit |
| consumer economy | economy that depends on a large amount of spending by consumers |
| installment plan | plan that allowed customers to make payments in set intervals over a period of time until the total debt was payed` |
| gross national product | total annal value of goods and service a country produces |
| assembly line | manufacturing process in which each worker does one specialized in the construction of the final products |
| welfare capitalism | companies meet some of workers need without prompting by unions, preventing strikes and keeping productivity high |
| speculation | practice of making high risk investment in hoping of getting a huge return |
| buying on margin | an option that allows investors to purchase a stock for only a fraction of its price and borrow the rest |
| marcus garvey | african american leader urged african americans to return to their mother land in africa. black pride |
| charles lindbergh | aviator-international hero when he made the first solo fight across the atlantic in 1927 |
| langston hughes and zora neale hurtson | active writers for harlem renaissance |
| amelia earheart | frist woman to fly across the atlantic |
| bosheviks | members of the leftwing majority group of the russian social democratic workers party that adopted lenins thesis on party organization in 1903 |
| national origins act of 1924 | low severely restricting immigration by establishing systems of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from Southern and eastern europe and asia |
| sacco and vanzetti | 1920 murder immigrant and archaist. executed |
| henry ford | made affordable cars for masses assembly lines and other production techniques |
| al capone | american gangster who led a prohibition ear cripple syndicate |
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