Roaring Twenties Vocab

Question 1

Recession

Answer 1

An economic slump that is milder than a depression

Question 2

Stock

Answer 2

Share of ownership in a corporation

Question 3

Communism

Answer 3

An economic system in which all wealth and property are owned by the state

Question 4

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Answer 4

A 1928 treaty outlawing war

Question 5

Financial terms

Answer 5

A fee charged for a loan, usually a percentage of the loan, to be paid monthly along with part of the original loan, until the loan is repaid

Question 6

Prohibition

Answer 6

The legal ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor anywhere in the United States from 1920 to 1933

Question 7

Bootlegger

Answer 7

A person who smuggled liquor into the United States during Prohibition

Question 8

Equal Rights Amendment

Answer 8

A 1923 proposed constitutional amendment intended to prohibit all discrimination based on sex; the amendment was never ratified

Question 9

Suburb

Answer 9

A residential area on the outskirts of a city

Question 10

Organized crime

Answer 10

Criminal activity carried on by one or more organized groups as a business

Question 11

What does disarmament mean?

Answer 11

A reduction of armed forces and weapons of war

Question 12

Flapper

Answer 12

A young woman in the 1920s who adopted unconventional fashions, including short hair and short skirts

Question 13

Jazz

Answer 13

A music style developed by African Americans in the early 1900s that developed from blues, ragtime, and other earlier styles

Question 14

Fad

Answer 14

An activity or fashion that is taken up with great passion for a short time

Question 15

Expatriate

Answer 15

A person who leaves his or her own country and takes up residence in a foreign land

Question 16

Company union

Answer 16

A labor organization limited to a single company that is controlled by management

Question 17

Sabotage

Answer 17

The secret destruction of property or interference with production

Question 18

Anarchists

Answer 18

A person who opposes organized government

Question 19

To deport

Answer 19

To forcibly remove from a country

Question 20

Nativism

Answer 20

The belief that native-born citizens’ interests should be protected, usually involving hostility toward foreigners and immigration

Question 21

Quota System

Answer 21

A system that limits the number of certain kinds of people admitted to an institution or country

Question 22

Great Migration

Answer 22

The movement of millions of African Americans from the South to the North during the early to mid-1900s

Question 23

Black Tuesday

Answer 23

October 29, 1929: the day the stock market crashed most deeply, signaling the start of the Great Depression

Question 24

Great Depression

Answer 24

The most severe economic decline in United States history, beginning in 1929

Question 25

Bankrupt

Answer 25

Unable to pay debts

Question 26

Relief Program

Answer 26

A government program to help the needy

Question 27

Soup kitchen

Answer 27

A place where food is provided to the needy at little or no charge

Question 28

Public works

Answer 28

The construction of government-funded public buildings, roads, dams, and other public structures

Question 29

Hooverville

Answer 29

A group of shacks in which the homeless lived during the Great Depression

Question 30

Bonus Army

Answer 30

A group of veterans who marched to Washington in 1932 to demand immediate payment of a World War I bonus

Question 31

What does New Deal refer to?

Answer 31

The program of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to end the Great Depression

Question 32

National Recovery Administration (NRA)

Answer 32

A government agency set up during the Great Depression to enforce codes meant to stabilize industry

Question 33

Pension

Answer 33

A sum of money paid to people on a regular basis after they retire

Question 34

Collective bargaining

Answer 34

Process by which a union representing a group of workers negotiates with management for a contract

Question 35

Social Security Act

Answer 35

A 1935 law that set up a system of pensions for older people and the nation's first system of unemployment insurance

Question 36

Dust Bowl

Answer 36

The region in the central and southern Great Plains that was hit by severe drought, soil erosion, and dust storms in the 1930s

Question 37

Migrant worker

Answer 37

A person who moves from one region to another in search of work

Question 38

National debt

Answer 38

The total sum of money that a government owes to others

Question 39

Civil rights

Answer 39

The rights due to all citizens

Question 40

Indian New Deal

Answer 40

A series of laws passed in the 1930s that gave American Indian nations greater control over their own affairs