Chapter 20 Flashcards
buying something with the hope of selling it later at a profit
speculation
small monthly payments until item is paid for
installment plans
Christians who fought to remove modernists from their churches
fundamentalism
Chicago psychopath, eventually jailed for tax evasion
Al Capone
1921 American idol- sports in America begins
Babe Ruth
begins the science of psychology
Sigmund Freud
develops the theory of relativity
Albert Einstein
the Federal law making liquor illegal
Prohibition
reduced German reparations of WWI only slightly
Dawes Plan
fear of Communism in America
Red Scare
club where liquor was served during Prohibition
speak easy
investors paid only a percentage of the cost of the stock
on the margin