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social studies
Term | Definition |
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Assembly line | manufacturing using a conveyor belt to move materials to workers who stay in one place |
installment buying | paying for items in small monthly payments |
Laissez-faire economics | theory that business, if free of government regulation, will act in ways that benefit the nation |
credit | arrangement for delayed payment of a loan or purchase |
tariff | tax on imported goods |
flapper | a young women eager to try the latest fashion. dance, or fad |
mass media | communications that reach a large audience |
popular culatra | movies, fashions songs, slang, and other expressions of culture that appeal to many people |
prohibition | legal ban on alcohol imposed by the eighteenth amendment |
speakeasies | nightclubs that illegally served alcohol |
evolution | scientific theory of now life forms developed over millions of years |
Harlem Renaissance | a burst of African American culture in the 1920s and the 1930s |
N.A.A.C.P | (National Association for the advancement of colored people) group formed in 1909 to protect the rights of African Americans |
Herbert Hoover | republican president who failed to halt the Great Depression |
Bonus Army | WW1 veterans who came to Washington seeking early payments of bonuses for wartime services |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Democratic president who created the new deal to counter the effects of the Great Depression |
Fireside Chats | series of radio talks in which FDR explained his polices in a casual style |
Social Security Act | law creating fund for assisting retired workers and the unemployed |
Dust Bowl | region including parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico in which farms were damaged by dust storms |
Sit-Down Strike | union tactic in which workers stayed idle in a plant rather than walking out |