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The Roaring 20s unit
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Return to Normalcy | Republicans wish to return the country to the state it was before WWI |
| "On Margin" | System where an investor buys a stock for as little as a 10 percent down payment; holds it until the stock price rises; then sells for a profit. |
| Flapper | women experience a new kind of freedom in society (short skirts,short hair, smoking, drinking, dancing) |
| Nativism | feeling of hatred toward foreigners |
| Prohibition | Ban on the manufacture, sale & transportation of alcohol; 18th Amendment |
| Bootlegging | smuggling alcohol into the US during Prohibition |
| Installment Buying | Buying on credit (paying a little bit every month) |
| Harlem Renaissance | a boom of art, dance, music, and literature from the African American community. |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | 2 Italian immigrants executed for a crime they did not commit; showed intolerance for immigrants & anarchists during the 1920s |