Term | Definition |
1. supply-side economics | economic theory that lower taxes will boost the economy as businesses and individuals invest their money, thereby creating higher tax revenue |
2. cooperative individualism | president Hoover's policy of encouraging manufactures and distributors to form their own organizations and volunteer information to the federal government in an effort to stimulate the economy |
3. isolationism | a national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs |
4. investigation | a systematic examination or official inquiry |
5. revelation | an act of revealing to view or making known |
6. Teapot Dome | |
7. Charles G. Dawes | |
8. Charles Evans Hughes | |
9. Kellogg-Briand Pact | |
10. mass production | the production of large quantities of goods using machinery and often an assembly line |
11. assembly line | a production system with machines and workers arranged so that each person performs an assigned task again and again as the item passes before him or her |
12. Model T | automobile built by the ford motor company from 1908 until 1927 |
13. welfare capitalism | system in which companies enable employees to buy stock, participate in profit sharing, and receive benefits such as medical care common in the 1920s |
14. open shop | a workplace where workers are not required to join a union |
15. disposable | referring to the money remaining to an individual after deduction of taxes |
16. credit | an amount or sum of money placed at a persons disposal by a bank on condition that it will be repaid with interest |
17. Charles Lindbergh | |
18. nativism | hostility toward immigrants |
19. anarchist | person who believes that there should be no government |
20. evolution | the scientific theory that humans and other forms of life have evolved over time |
21. creationism | the belief that god created the world and everything in it, usually in the way described in genesis |
22. speakeasy | a place where alcoholic beverages are sold illegally |
23. source | the point at which something is provided |
24. deny | to declare untrue |
25. Emergency Quota Act | |
26. National Origins Act | |
27. Fundamentalism | |
28. bohemian | a person (as an artist or writer) leading an unconventional lifestyle |
29. mass media | a medium of communication (as in television and radio) intended to reach a wide audience |
30. diverse | being different from one another |
31. unify | to bring a group together with a similar goal or thought pattern |
32. Carl Sandburgh | |
33. Willa Cather | |
34. Ernest Hemingway | |
35. F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
36. Edith Wharton | |
37. Jazz | American style of music that developed from ragtime and blues and which uses syncopated rhythms and melodies |
38. blues | style of music evolving from African American spirituals and noted for its melancholy sound |
39. symbolize | to represent , express, or identify by a symbol |
40. impact | to make a lasting impression upon an individual or group |
41. ongoing | being actually in process, continuing |
42. Great Migration | |
43. Harlem Renaissance | |
44. Claude Mckay | |
45. Langston Hughes | |
46. Zora Neale Hurston | |
47. Cotton Club | |
48. Marcus Garvey | |