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post ww2 Flashcards

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Domestic affairs

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Internal(national) issues—-stuff that happens in america

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Tariff

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Tax on imported goods

EX: Smoot-Hawley tariff raised taxes on all imported goods

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Isolationism

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when a country keeps to itself and stays out of world conflicts and wars
EX: America after WW1

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Protectionism

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trying to protect native-born Americans and businesses

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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 ww1 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 communists

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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 south

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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 1920ś

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prohibition

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a 13-year ban on alchohol 1920s

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Speakeasy

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secret bar where people drank

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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 (instead of paying cash upfront)

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Flapper

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young, modern, 1920s woman

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Stock speculation

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buying stocks in anticipation that their price will go up

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Buying stocks on margin

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making a down payment on a stock and trying to sell it for a profit

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Herbert Hoover

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president 1929-1933—-all about businesses and laissez faire economics

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