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21 Cards in this Set
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Installment buying
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A system of paying for goods by installment
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Assembly line
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Series of workers and machines in which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled
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Flapper
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Fashionable young woman who is intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards
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Fundamentalism
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Strict literal interpretation on religious scripture
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Alien
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A citizen of another country living in the united states
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Deportation
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Forcing someone to move back to the country in which they were born
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Bootleggers
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People who smuggled liquor during prohibition
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Anarchist
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Someone who believes in no government
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Values
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Key ideas or beliefs a person holds
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Isolationism
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Being out of other countries business
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Communism
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No private property, no classes
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Quota
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When the people who can enter the US from Each foreign country
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Status
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A person's place, or social class
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Domestic
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Something produced or manufactured in one's own country
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Evolution
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Three of inherited characteristics and natural selection
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Welfare capitalism
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Companies providing fringe benefits to employees to gain worker satisfaction
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Suburbs
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Smaller towns outside urban area
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Speakeasies
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Illegal bars during prohibition
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Urban sprawl
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Unplanned and uncontrolled spreading of cities into surrounding regions
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Productivity
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About of product made by worker or machine
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Arms race
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Building up weapons to avoid combat
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