vocab for history

Question 1

domesticate affairs

Answer 1

internal (national) issue

Question 2

tariff

Answer 2

tax on import goods

Question 3

isolationism

Answer 3

America after WWI

Question 4

protectionism

Answer 4

trying to protect native-born Americans and American businesses

Question 5

communism

Answer 5

the government makes all economic decision

Question 6

Red Scare

Answer 6

WWI reaction to communism

Question 7

Sacco and Vanzetti

Answer 7

italian- immigrant-anarchists-accused of murder- and executed

Question 8

anarchy

Answer 8

no government

Question 9

palmer raids

Answer 9

raids on suspected communist

Question 10

19th amendment

Answer 10

gave women the right to vote

Question 11

great migration

Answer 11

Movement of African-Americans from

southern farms to northern cities

Question 12

jim crow

Answer 12

Segregation laws that kept Blacks and

Whites separate in the South

Question 13

urban areas

Answer 13

cites

Question 14

rural areas

Answer 14

the country

Question 15

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 15

A celebration of African-American culture

in the 1920s

Question 16

Prohibition

Answer 16

a 13-year ban on alcohol (the 1920s)

Question 17

Speakeasy

Answer 17

Secret bar where people drank during

prohibition

Question 18

Popular culture

Answer 18

The stuff most people do and like

Question 19

Consumerism

Answer 19

Buying more and more all the time

Question 20

Installment Plan

Answer 20

Buying stuff on payments (instead of

paying cash upfront)

Question 21

Flapper

Answer 21

Young, modern, 1920s woman:
Short hair
Short dresses
Smoked
Drank Alcohol

Question 22

Buying Stocks on margin

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Stock Speculation

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Herbert Hoover

Answer 24

President
1929-1933
All about businesses & Laissez Faire
economics