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chapters 22/23
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| capitalism | economic system in which private citizens own businesses and industries |
| speculation | the buying and selling of stocks to make a quick profit |
| dividend | portion of a company;s prodit paid to stockholders |
| margin | purchasing stock by putting a small amount down and borrowing the rest |
| stock | ownership piece of a company |
| depression | long and severe decline in economic activity |
| "run" on a bank | when depositors try to withdraw all their money in cash from bank |
| Hooversville | · The shantytowns where homeless people lived |
| Bonus Army | unemployed veterans who had marched to Washington |
| Anarchy | Belief in absence of government |
| Bolshevik | radical communists led by Lenin in 1917 Russian revolution |
| alien | foreigner |
| deport | forcibly remove from a country because of illegal or political reasons |
| Red | named after color of banner in Russian revolution of 1917, a radical, anarchist or communist |
| Prohibition | banned making/selling alcohol |
| Suffrage | person who believes in women's right to vote |
| Temperance | movement against sale and use of alcohol |
| Quota | filling spaces based on race, sex, religion... |
| lynch | hang some one, usually blacks by Ku Klux Klan |
| Arms Race | Us and USSR, started with H bond testing |
| tariff war | fight regarding taxes on export and import goods of a country regarding another country |
| teapot dome scandal | Harding's Secretary of Interior took a bribe to allow private companies to drill in national reserve oil fields. |
| disarmament | act of getting rid of military weapons |
| war debts | monies owed by government and other countries from expense of war |
| bonus | (blank) |
| Free enterprise | capitalism system of economics where you can trade with anyone |
| speakeasies | illegal saloons |
| flappers | Women cut their hair, shortened their skirts, danced the “Charleston” |
| assembly line | factory procedure made famous by Henry Ford in which cars or goods move past workers and machines to be assembled piece by piece until complete |