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20s Great Depresso
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Assembly Line | manufacturing using a conveyor belt to move materials to workers who staying in one place to work. |
| Installment Buying | playing for items in small monthly payments |
| Traiff | tax on imported goods |
| Credit | an arrangement for delayed payments of ban pr purchase. |
| Laisssez-Faire Economics | A theory that if business is free of government regulation it will act in ways that benefit the nation |
| Flapper | a young woman eagetr to try the latest fashion, dance or fad |
| Prohibition | the legal ban of alcohol imposed by the 18th Amendment |
| Harlem Renaissance | a burst of african american culture during the 1920s and 1930s |
| Herbert Hoover | the republican president who failed to halt the great depression |
| Great Depression | the serious and world wide economic decline of the 1930s |
| Public Works | government founded projects to assist individuals families, and communities in need |
| Frankiln Delano Roosevelt | democratic president who created the new deal to counter the effect of the great depression |
| First New Deal | 1933-1935 program created b y president franklin d. roosevelt to fight the depression |
| Second New Deal | 1935-1937 an extension of Roosevelt first new deal |
| Social Security Act | A law creating funds for assisting retired workers and the unemployed |
| Socialism | a group who believes production and distribution should be regluted by the community |
| Dust Bowl | region including parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado,and new mexico in witch farms were damaged by dust storms. |
| Liberal | an individual who favors federal government actions to bring about social and economic reforms |
| Conservative | An individual who favors federal government restricted policies in social and economic reform |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | the wife of FDR who helped him moniter new deal programs and became a strong voice for woman and minorities |
| Sit-down Strike | A union tactic in which workers remained idle in a plant rather than walking out. |