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Roaring 20's
US History 23-24
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Consumerism | the preoccupation of society with the acquisition of consumer goods |
| Modernity | relating to recent or contemporary styles or ideas |
| stock market | A system for buying and selling shares of companies |
| tradition | values and beliefs passed from generation to generation |
| Red | American slang for communist |
| Flapper | Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion |
| Jazz | a style of music characterized by the use of improvisation |
| Eugenics | The scientifically inaccurate theory, rooted in racist attitudes, that humans can be improved through selective breeding of populations |
| Great Migration | movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920 |
| Ku Klux Klan | A white supremacy group that by the 1920s had 3 - 8million members and dominated politics |
| Nativism | A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones |
| Red Scare | fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life |
| Harlem Renaissance | A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished |
| Prohibition | the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment |
| Laissez-faire | Policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation's economy. |
| mass production | Process of making large quantities of a product quickly and cheaply |
| ratified | formally approved (in the case of adding an amendment- 35 states must vote to approve an amendment) |
| Bootleggers/Speakeasies | Illegal liquor traders or places where people could secretly drink alcohol. |
| rennaissance | Revival of learning or "rebirth" |
| liberation | the act of setting someone free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression; release. |
| immigrant | a person who comes into a country to live there |
| migration | movement of people from one place to another |
| rural | relating to farm areas and life in the country |
| urban | in, relating to, or characteristic of a city or town. |
| suburban | An area that typically surrounds the central city, is often residential, and is not as densely populated. |
| Fundamentalism | Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion (or a religious branch, denomination, or sect). |
| Evangelism | The spreading of the Christian gospel by public preaching or personal witness |
| resurgence | A rising again to life, use, acceptance, or prominence; a revival |
| Domestic Terrorism | Terrorism that is carried out by people in their own country. |
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