Question | Answer |
flapper | new type of young woman; rebellious |
demographic | statistic describe a population, such as a race or income |
barrios | spanish-speaking neighborhood |
mass media | prit and broadcast methods of communicating into to large numbers of people |
jazz age | used to describe the 1920 |
lost generation | group of writers who shared belief that they were lost in a greedy, materialistic world that lacked moral value and who often choose to flee to europe |
harlem renaissance | african american literary awakening during the 1920s in harlem |
bootlegger | a supplier of illegal alcohol during Prohibition |
speakeasies | bars that opened illegally during prohibition |
fundamentalism | set of religious beliefs including traditional christian ideas about jesus christ, belief the bible had no errors and is literary true |
scopes trials | where clarence darrow vs william jennings argue whether to teach evolutionary theory in schools or not |
communism | official ideology of the soiviet union characterized there as complete government ownership of land and property, single-party control as the government lack of individual rights and call for worldwide revolution |
red scare | intense scare of communism and other political radical ideas |
isolationism | policy of avoiding political or economic alliances with foreign countries |
disarmament | program in which the nations of the world voluntarily give us their weapons |
quota | numerical limit |
consumer economy | economy that depends on a large amount of spending by consumers |
installment plan | plan that allowed customers to make payments in set intervals over a period of time until the total debt was payed` |
gross national product | total annal value of goods and service a country produces |
assembly line | manufacturing process in which each worker does one specialized in the construction of the final products |
welfare capitalism | companies meet some of workers need without prompting by unions, preventing strikes and keeping productivity high |
speculation | practice of making high risk investment in hoping of getting a huge return |
buying on margin | an option that allows investors to purchase a stock for only a fraction of its price and borrow the rest |
marcus garvey | african american leader urged african americans to return to their mother land in africa. black pride |
charles lindbergh | aviator-international hero when he made the first solo fight across the atlantic in 1927 |
langston hughes and zora neale hurtson | active writers for harlem renaissance |
amelia earheart | frist woman to fly across the atlantic |
bosheviks | members of the leftwing majority group of the russian social democratic workers party that adopted lenins thesis on party organization in 1903 |
national origins act of 1924 | low severely restricting immigration by establishing systems of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from Southern and eastern europe and asia |
sacco and vanzetti | 1920 murder immigrant and archaist. executed |
henry ford | made affordable cars for masses assembly lines and other production techniques |
al capone | american gangster who led a prohibition ear cripple syndicate |