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WW 1 Vocab.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Inflation | general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money. |
| Strike | a refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an attempt to gain a concession or concessions from their employer. |
| Calvin Coolidge | elected vice president and succeeded as 30th President of the United States when Harding died in 1923. |
| National Guard | the primary reserve military force partly maintained by the states but also available for federal use. |
| Union | a club, society, or association formed by people with a common interest or purpose. |
| riots | a violent disturbance of the peace by a crowd. |
| Red Scare | is the promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism or anarchism by a society or state. |
| The Palmer Raids | The Palmer Raids were a series of raids conducted in November 1919 and January 1920. |
| Disillusionment | a feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be. |
| Treaty of Versailles | was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. |
| Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer | was United States Attorney General from 1919 to 1921. |
| Trench warfare | a type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other. |
| Great migration | was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970. |
| Henry Ford | Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist and a business magnate. |
| Discrimination | the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. |
| civil liberties | individual rights protected by law from unjust governmental or other interference. |
| Espionage | the practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information. |
| The draft | compulsory recruitment for military service. |
| Influenza Epidemic | an epidemic of an influenza virus that spreads on a worldwide scale and infects a large proportion of the world population. |
| Prejudice | preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. |
| Armistice | A treaty signed by Germany and the U.S to lay down their weapons. |
| Medal of honor | the United States of America's highest and most prestigious personal military decoration that may be awarded to recognize U.S. military service members who have distinguished themselves by acts of valor. |
| Commodity | A good or item. |
| Coveted | Wanted or desired |
| Spade | A shovel that is the shape of a spade. |
| Apparatus | the technical equipment or machinery needed for a particular activity or purpose. |
| Bedrock | solid rock underlying loose deposits such as soil or alluvium. |
| Derrick | a kind of crane with a movable pivoted arm for moving or lifting heavy weights, especially on a ship. |
| Detrimental | tending to cause harm. |
| Exorbitant | (of a price or amount charged) unreasonably high. |
| Fusion | the process or result of joining two or more things together to form a single entity. |
| Rotary | (of motion) revolving around a center or axis; rotational. |
| Temperance | abstinence from alcoholic drink. |
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