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domestic affairs

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-internal issues - stuff that happens in america

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Tariff

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-Tax on imported goods.

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isolation

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  • when a country keeps to itself and stays out world conflicts & wars
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protectionism

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-Trying to protect native-born americans and american business .

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communism

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  • The government makes all economic decisions
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Red scare

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-post WWI reaction to communism- driven by fear and mistrust.

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sacco and Vanzetti

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  • Italian- immigrant - anarchists - accused of murder - and executed
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Anarchy

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  • No Government
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Palmer Raids

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  • Raids on suspected communism.
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19th Amendment

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  • Gave women the right to vote
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Great Migration

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  • Movement of African- Americans from southern farms to northern cities
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Jim crow

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  • segregation laws that kept Blacks and whites separate in the southern.
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Urban areas

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-Cities

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Rural areas

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-The country

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Harlem Renaissance

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  • A celebration of African- American culture in the 1920s
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Prohibition

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  • 13- year band on alcohol (1920s)
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speakeasy

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  • secret bar where people drank during prohibtion
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popular culture

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  • The stuff most people do and like
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consumerism

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  • Buying more and more all the time
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Installment plan

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  • Buying stuff on payments
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Flapper

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  • Young, modern, 1920s woman

- smoke, short dresses, Drank Alcohol.

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Buying stocks on margin

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  • making a down payment on a stock & trying to sell it for profit.
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stock speculation

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  • Buying stocks in anticipation that their price will go up.
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Herbert Hoover.

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  • president
  • 1929- 1933
  • All about business and laissez-faire economics.