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considered the first generation of independent American women; they pushed barriers in economic, political, and sexual freedom for women
Flappers
These laws concerned racial segregation in public facilities in the states if the former confederate states in American. began in the 1870s and ended in 1965
Jim crow laws
The prohibition era essentially began after the end of world war I with the ratficiation of the 18th amendment. What did it want to do?
Prohibition aimed to reduce crime and corruption and associated costs like prisons and workhouses, solve social issues, and improve American health and hygiene.
Which leader was an african american educator, author, and advisor to the presidents between 1890 and 1915, and the dominant leader in the African-American community?
Booker T Washington
In the 1920s people associated with this belief reacted fearfully to the rapid social changes of modern urban society by vigorously defending and prioritizing white, Protestant values and rejecting cultural diversity and equality.
Nativism
These establishments were places where, duang the Pronibition, alconore beverages were flegally soid and consumed in secret. In addition 10 drinking, patrens would ont, socialize, and dance to jazz music.
Speakeasys
When someone did not have the money to pay the full price of stocks, they could put down some of their own money, but the rest would be borrowed from a broker. This is known as:
buying on margin
This civil rights leader was an American sociologist, historian, author, editor, and activist who was the most important Black protest leader in the US during the first half of the 20th century
W.E.B. Dubois
This civil rights leader was an American sociologist, historian, author, editor, and activist who was the most important Black protest leader in the US during the first half of the 20th century
W.E.B. Dubois
This civil rights leader was known as the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) which aimed to achieve Black nationalism through the celebration of African history and culture.
Marcus Garvey
What was the Scopes Trial about? *
The teaching of evolution in public schools and universities
During the Great Depression many lost their homes because they could not make the loan payments. The legal process by which banks and other lenders took back property from borrowers who couldn’t repay their loans is called
Foreclosure
Meaning, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the
town
rural
A system of farming that emerged after the Civil War in which freed Black people and poor whites rented land from white landowners in exchange for a portion of their crops
Sharecropping
The rate at which a person, company, or country does useful work is called
productivity
The rate of increase in prices over a given period of time or the increase in the cost of living in a country is known as
inflation
This trade barrier works when one country imposes taxes on goods
imported from another country
Tariff
The result of a period of drought that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the Great Depression
The dust bowl
The result of a period of drought that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the Great Depression
Dust bowl
The advocacy of or support for unity and political self-determination for Black people, by supporting a separate Black nation is known as
Black nationalism
A sustained period of weak or negative growth in real GDP (output) that is accompanied by a significant rise in the unemployment rate. Can last months but is considered short term.
recession
sustained period of weak or negative growth in real GDP (output) that is *2/2 accompanied by a significant rise in the unemployment rate. Can last years and is considered long term
depression
What did the 19th Amendment do?
Gave women the right to vote
A person who moves to another country of area in order to find employment, in particular seasonal or temporary work; this was common during the Great Depression
Migrant worker
Meaning, belonging to, or relating to, a city *
Urban
A form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture
Fundamentalism
The Great Depression created economic conditions in which many
families iost their homes. Hundreds of temporary housing encampments called Hoovervilles were built by those families as a way to have shelter Why were they called Hoovervilles?
They were named after President Herbert Hoover who was widely Blamed for not doing enough during the great depression
Someone who illegally manufactured, transported, distributed, or sold alcohol during the Prohibition era
bootlegger
During the 1920s this methot of paying over a period of time allowed people to purchase larger household items
buying on installment
He was elected US President in 1932, after the Great Depression had
already begun
franklin d roosevelt
