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War to Peace & 1920s
Term | Definition |
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Red Scare | Wide spread fear of Communism |
Aliens | Citizens of other countries living in the US |
deportation | Removing an alien from one country and sending him/her to another country |
assembly line | Production system in which the item being built moves along the conveyor belt to various work stations |
welfare capitalism | system which companies provide benefits to employees in an effort to promote worker satisfaction and loyalty |
credit | borrowing money |
Teapot Dome | Federal land used to drill federal oil reserves |
arms race | competing nations build more weapons in effort to avoid one nation gaining a clear advantage |
Flapper | young women of the era who defied traditional ideas of proper dress and behavior |
values | key ideas and beliefs of person holds |
fundamentalism | A belief in the literal interpretation of a particular religion's doctrine or Holy books |
bootleggers | liquor smugglers |
Great Migration | Major relocation of African-Americans to the northern cities from 1910 and into the 1920s |
Harlem Renaissance | Blossoming of African-American art and literature that began in the 1920s |
transatlantic | crossing the atlantic ocean |