Post WWI & 1920s Flashcards
Domestic affairs
Internal (national) issues—stuff that
happens in America
Tariff
Tax on imported goods
Isolationism
When a country keeps to itself and stays
out of world conflicts & wars
Protectionism
Trying to protect native-born Americans
and American businesses
Communism
The government makes all economic
decisions
Red Scare
Post WWI 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 the 1920s
Prohibition
a 13-year ban on alcohol
Speakeasy
Secret bar where people drank during
prohibition
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
Buying Stocks on margin
Making a down payment on a stock &
trying to sell it for a profit (before paying
for the rest)
Stock Speculation
Buying stocks in anticipation that their
price will go up (regardless of the true
value of the stock)
Herbert Hoover
President
1929-1933
All about businesses & Laissez Faire
economics
