Ch. 31 Flashcards
racketeer
person who engages in dishonest and fraudulent business dealings.
underworld
Secret criminal business dealings
credit
Being able to buy something with money you don’t have as long as you pay off the debt by a certain date.
repression
When government channels funds to itself as a form of debt reduction
surtax
An additional tax on something already taxed, such as a higher rate of tax on incomes above a certain level.
A. Mitchell Palmer
Attorney general of the U.S from 1919-1921
John T. Scopes
High school biology teacher who was accused of teaching evolution in school and was put on trial for that
Henry Ford
Founder of Ford general motor company and the inventor of the assembly line
Nicola Sacco/Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Italian anarchists convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company on April 15, 1920, in South Braintree, Massachusetts, United States, and were executed by the electric chair seven years later
Sigmund Freud
Prominent psychologist during the twenties
Al Capone
Mobster based in Chicago who was responsible for bootlegging. The Valentine’s Day Massacre, etc.
Bible Belt
Southern states with predominantly black evangelical population
