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R20's & TGD Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Assembly Line | Manufacturing using a conveyor belt to move materials to workers who stay in one place to work. |
Installment Buying | Paying for items in small monthly payments |
Tariff | Tax on imported goods |
Credits | An arrangement for delayed payment of loan or purchase |
Laissez-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 eager to try the latest fashion , dance, or fed |
Prohibition | The legal ban of alcohol imposed by the 18th amendments |
Harlem Renaissance | A burst of African-American culture during the 1920's & 1930's |
Herbert Hoover | The Republican President who failed to halt the Great Depression |
Great Depression | The serious and worldwide economic decline of the 1930's |
Public Works | Government - funded projects to assist individuals, families, and communities in need. |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Democratic President who created the New Deal to counter the effects of the Great Depression |
First New Deal | 1933-1935 Program created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to fight the Depression |
Second New Deal | 1935-1937 An extension of Roosevelt's 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 regulated by the community |
Dust Bowl | Region including parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico in which farms were damaged by dust storms |
Liberal | An individual who favors federal government actions to bring the social and economic reform |
Conservative | An individual who favors federal government actions to bring the social and economic reform |
Eleanor Roosevelt | The wife of FDR who helped him monitor New Deal programs and became a strong for woman and minorities |
Sit-down strike | A union tactic in which workers remained idle in plant rather than walking out. |