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War to Peace & 1920s
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |