post ww2 Flashcards
Domestic affairs
Internal(national) issues—-stuff that happens in america
Tariff
Tax on imported goods
EX: Smoot-Hawley tariff raised taxes on all imported goods
Isolationism
when a country keeps to itself and stays out of world conflicts and wars
EX: America after WW1
Protectionism
trying to protect native-born Americans and businesses
Communism
The government makes all economic decisions
Red Scare
Post ww1 reaction to communism—-driven by fear and mistrust
Sacco and Vanzetti
Italian-immigrant-anarchists—accused of murder—and executed
Anarchy
no government
Palmer Raids
raids on suspected communists
19th amendment
gave women the right to vote
Great migration
movement of African-Americans from southern farms to northern cities
Jim Crow
Segregation laws that kept blacks and whites separate in the south
Urban areas
cities
rural areas
the country
Harlem Renaissance
a celebration of African-American culture in 1920ś
prohibition
a 13-year ban on alchohol 1920s
Speakeasy
secret bar where people drank
popular culture
the stuff most people do and like
Consumerism
buying more and more all the time
Installment plan
buying stuff on payments (instead of paying cash upfront)
Flapper
young, modern, 1920s woman
Stock speculation
buying stocks in anticipation that their price will go up
Buying stocks on margin
making a down payment on a stock and trying to sell it for a profit
Herbert Hoover
president 1929-1933—-all about businesses and laissez faire economics
