The Roaring 20s Flashcards
18th amendment
Ban on sale manufacture and transport of alcoholic beverages(prohibition) repealed by the 21st amendment
19th amendment
Amendment to the us constitution (1920) giving women to the right to vote women’s suffrage
21st amendment
Amendment which ended prohibition repealing the 18th amendment
Anarchist
Person who opposes organized government
Bootlegger
Person who smuggled liquor into the united states prices
Bull market
A period of increased stock trading and rising stock prices
Buying stocks on margin
Paying a small percentage of a stocks price as a down payment and borrowing the reat
Calvin coolidge
Elected Vice President and succeeded as 30th president of the united states when harding died in 1923 business prospered and people’s wealth increased
Communism
A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country
Deportation
Sending an immigrant back to his or her own country
Flapper
Women in the 1920s who bobbed their hair wore short skirts and defied the morals and restrictions of the earlier generations
The great migration
Migration of thousands of african Americans from the south to the north african Americans were looking for better jobs and to escape the problems of racism in the south
Harlem renaissance
A period in the 1920s when African Americans achievements in art and music and literature flourished
Installment buying
A consumer buys products by promising to pay small regular amounts over a period of time buying on credit
The jazz age
Name referring to the 1920s a time of cultural change generally refers to the arts such as writing music artwork and architecture
