Post WWI & 1920s vocab 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 and 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 communist
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:Jazz Art Poetry Literature
Prohibition
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 women, short hair, short dresses, smoked, drank alcohol
Buying Stocks on margin
Making a down payment on a stock & trying to sell it for profit (before paying the rest)
Stock Replication
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
