Chapter 20/21 Vocab

Question 0

Statistics that describe a population

Answer 0

Demographics

Question 1

1920 term used to describe a new type of women

Answer 1

Flapper

Question 2

Spanish speaking neighborhood

Answer 2

Barrio

Question 3

Print and broadcast methods of communicating info

Answer 3

Mass media

Question 4

Described the 1920s

Answer 4

Jazz age

Question 5

Group of American writers who shared the belief that they were lost in greedy world.

Answer 5

Lost generation

Question 6

Supplier of illegal alcohol during prohibition

Answer 6

Bootleggers

Question 7

Bars that operated illegally

Answer 7

Speakeasies

Question 8

Set of religious beliefs including traditional Christian ideas about Jesus

Answer 8

Fundamentalism

Question 9

1925 court case in which Darrow and Bryan debated teaching evolution in schools

Answer 9

Scopes trail

Question 10

Gov ownership of land and property

Answer 10

Communism

Question 11

Program in which nations of the world voluntarily give up their weapons

Answer 11

Disarmament

Question 12

A numerical unit

Answer 12

Quota

Question 13

Granting of oil drilling rights in gov land in return of money

Answer 13

Teapot dome scandal

Question 14

Nations agreed not to pose the threat of war against one another

Answer 14

Kellogg Briand pact

Question 15

Make payments at set intervals over a period of time unit debt is payed off

Answer 15

Installment plan

Question 16

Each worker does 1 special task in the construction of the final product

Answer 16

Assembly line

Question 17

Companies meet some of their workers needs without prompting by unions

Answer 17

Welfare capitalism

Question 18

The practice of making high risk investments in hopes of getting a huge return

Answer 18

Speculation

Question 19

Investors to purchase a stock for only a fraction of its price and barrow the rest

Answer 19

Buying on a margin