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18 Cards in this Set
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anarchist
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people who oppose organized government,added to the sense of danger
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bootlegger
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person who smuggled liquor into the u.s. during prohibition
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communism
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economic system in which all property isowned by the community
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company union
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labon organization that was controlled by the company daners
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deport
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to expel from a country
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disarmament
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reduction of nation's armed forces or aeasons
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expatriate
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person who leaves his or her coduntry and lives in a foreign land
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flapper
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youn woman in the 1920 who rebelled against traditional wags of thinking and actng
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harlem renaissance
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re-birth of African American culture in the 1920's
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on margin
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this allowed people to buy stock with a down payment of 10% of the full value
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prohibition
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ban on manufacture , sale and transportation of liquor anywhere in the US from 1920 1930
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recession
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mild depression in which business slous and some workers lose their jobs
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red scare
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period in the 1920s during which radicals were arrested and foriegners deported because of a fear of communism
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sabotage
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distoring some thing on purpis
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speakeasy
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iliegal barthat served liqor during prohibition
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stock
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shares ina corporation run by a single bourd of directors
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suburb
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small towns
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teapot dome scandal
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albert fall secretly leased land to oil companies they gave him big bribes, he was put in jail
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