3 posts Flashcards
Domestic affairs
Internal national issues stuff that happens in America
Tariff
taxes on imported goods
isolationism
When a country keeps to its self
Protectionism
Trying to protect native-born Americans
Communism
The government makes all economic decisions
Red scare
Post-WW1 reaction to communism Driven by fear and mistrust
Sacco and Vanzetti
Italian immigrants accused of murder and executed
Anarchy
No government
Palmer Raids
Raids on suspected communist
19th amendment
Gave women the right to vote
Great migration
Movement of Africans
Jim crow
Segregation laws that kept blacks and whites in the south
Urban areas
Cities
rural areas
The country
Prohibition
13-year ban alcohol
Speakeasy
secret bar
Popular culture
the stuff most people like to do
Consumerism
Buying more and more all the time
Installment plan
Buying stuff on payments
Flapper
young modern 1920 women
Stock speculation
Buying stocks in anticipation that their price will go up
Herbert Hoover
President all about Business Lassez fair economics
Buying stocks on margin
Making down payment on stock