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Post WWI & 1920s Flashcards

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Domestic affairs

A

Internal (national) issues—stuff that

happens in America

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Tariff

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Tax on imported goods

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Isolationism

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When a country keeps to itself and stays

out of world conflicts & wars

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Protectionism

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Trying to protect native-born Americans

and American businesses

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Communism

A

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

A

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 the 1920s

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Prohibition

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a 13-year ban on alcohol

17
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Speakeasy

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Secret bar where people drank during

prohibition

18
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Popular culture

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The stuff most people do and like

19
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Consumerism

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Buying more and more all the time

20
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Installment Plan

A

Buying stuff on payments (instead of

paying cash upfront)

21
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Flapper

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Young, modern, 1920s woman

22
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Buying Stocks on margin

A

Making a down payment on a stock &
trying to sell it for a profit (before paying
for the rest)

23
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Stock Speculation

A

Buying stocks in anticipation that their
price will go up (regardless of the true
value of the stock)

24
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Herbert Hoover

A

President
1929-1933
All about businesses & Laissez Faire
economics

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