vocab for history Flashcards
domesticate affairs
internal (national) issue
tariff
tax on import goods
isolationism
America after WWI
protectionism
trying to protect native-born Americans and American businesses
communism
the government makes all economic decision
Red Scare
WWI reaction to communism
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
cites
rural areas
the country
Harlem Renaissance
A celebration of African-American culture
in the 1920s
Prohibition
a 13-year ban on alcohol (the 1920s)
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: Short hair Short dresses Smoked Drank Alcohol
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
