post WW1 Flashcards
1
Q
domestic affairs
A
-internal issues - stuff that happens in america
2
Q
Tariff
A
-Tax on imported goods.
3
Q
isolation
A
- when a country keeps to itself and stays out world conflicts & wars
4
Q
protectionism
A
-Trying to protect native-born americans and american business .
5
Q
communism
A
- The government makes all economic decisions
6
Q
Red scare
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-post WWI reaction to communism- driven by fear and mistrust.
7
Q
sacco and Vanzetti
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- Italian- immigrant - anarchists - accused of murder - and executed
8
Q
Anarchy
A
- No Government
9
Q
Palmer Raids
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- Raids on suspected communism.
10
Q
19th Amendment
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- Gave women the right to vote
11
Q
Great Migration
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- Movement of African- Americans from southern farms to northern cities
12
Q
Jim crow
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- segregation laws that kept Blacks and whites separate in the southern.
13
Q
Urban areas
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-Cities
14
Q
Rural areas
A
-The country
15
Q
Harlem Renaissance
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- A celebration of African- American culture in the 1920s
16
Q
Prohibition
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- 13- year band on alcohol (1920s)
17
Q
speakeasy
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- secret bar where people drank during prohibtion
18
Q
popular culture
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- The stuff most people do and like
19
Q
consumerism
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- Buying more and more all the time
20
Q
Installment plan
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- Buying stuff on payments
21
Q
Flapper
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- Young, modern, 1920s woman
- smoke, short dresses, Drank Alcohol.
22
Q
Buying stocks on margin
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- making a down payment on a stock & trying to sell it for profit.
23
Q
stock speculation
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- Buying stocks in anticipation that their price will go up.
24
Q
Herbert Hoover.
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- president
- 1929- 1933
- All about business and laissez-faire economics.
