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Roaring 1920s
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| installment buying | making small payments over a period of time to purchase an expensive item |
| stock | a share of ownership in a company |
| Red Scare | the widespread fear of Communism coming to the United States |
| prohibition | a ban on making, transporting, and selling alcohol in the United States; prohibition lasted from 1920-1933 |
| organized crime | criminal activity that is carried on by one or more organized groups as a business |
| mass culture | this is a set of values and practices created when people across a country are all listening to the same types of music, watching the same movies, hearing the same news reports, etc. |
| fad | a fashion or activity that is taken up with a great passion for a short amount of time |
| flapper | a carefree young woman of the 1920s; they were characterized by having shorter hair, shorter skirts, and bolder makeup |
| jazz | a musical style developed by African Americans in the early 1900s; jazz is characterized by improvisation and the use of brass, woodwind instruments, and the piano |
| quota system | a system that limited that number of people from each country that could move to the United States |
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