Chapter 9 History Test Flashcards
Capitalism
Economic system based on private property and free enterprise
Anarchistic
Someone who believes there shouldn’t be a government
Deport
To expel from a country
Intergration
Whites and African Americans living side by side
Lease
To rent
Laissez- faire
A belief that government should have as little involvement in life as possible
Recession
An economic downturn
Gross national
The total value of all good and services produced by a nation
Productivity
Worker output per given amount of time and resources
Installment buying
Purchasing products by making small payments over a period of time
Flapper
A carefree young woman of the 1920s
Mass media
Forms of communication that can reach millions of people
Expatriate
Someone who chooses to live in another country
Prohibition
A total ban on the manufacture,sale, and transportation of liquor throughout the United States, achieved through the Eighteenth Amendment
Nativism
Belief that native born Americans are superior to foreigners
Quota system
An arrangement setting the numbers of immigrants allowed from each country
Evolution
Scientific theory that humans and other species changed and developed over long periods of time
