The Jazz Age/The Great Depression
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| Prosperity | Being successful and wealthy
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| Capitalism | Government NOT involved with businesses. Products are owned by individual people and companies rather by the government.
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| Anarchists | People who believe there should be no government.
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| Deported | Expelled from the United States.
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| Nativism | Belief that native born Americans are superior to foreigners.
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| Normalcy | Calm political and social order. End to foreign involvement.
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| Communism | Government owns all property and makes nearly all decisions.
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| Red Scare | A fear of Russian Communist form of government. Urged workers around the world to overthrow capitalist governments.
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| Radicalism | Favoring EXTREME changes in tradition.
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| Flapper | 1920's "liberated" woman. Carefree young women with new freedoms.
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| 21st Amendment | Ending the ban on liquor.
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| Great Depression | Period of low business activity in the U.S. Roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930's.
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| Recession | A downward turn in business activity.
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| Dust Bowl | Surface soil is blown off by the wind and dust storms occur.
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| Poverty | Poor, lacking money or materials goods.
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| Migrant Workers | A person who moves from place to place to get work. Farm laborer who harvests crops seasonally.
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| Bonus Army | World War I veterans who marched on Washington to receive their army bonus.
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| The New Deal | FDR's plan to help the economy recover and get people jobs.
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| Social Security Act (SSA) | Tax on money made by workers and employers.
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| Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) | Created jobs by building dams to use hydro-electricity.
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| Fascism | Political system that calls for extreme nationalism, racism, and not tolerance to opposition. Headed by a dictator.
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| Jazz | Uses dynamic rhythms based on African American music.
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| Talkie | Movies with sound. The Jazz Singer - Name of the first talking movie.
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