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24 Cards in this Set
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Recession |
economic slump |
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Teapot Dome Scandal |
Albert Fall illegally gave away govern. land in California and Teapot Dome Wyoming as a result Fall was the first ever Cabinet official sent to jail |
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Installment Buying |
buying on credit |
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Stock |
shares of ownership |
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Bull Market |
period of increased stock trading and rising stock prices |
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Communism |
an economic system in which all wealth and property are owned by the community as a whole |
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Disarmament |
the reduction of armed forces and weapons of war |
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Kellogg-Briand Pact |
The United States and 61 other nations signed the treaty outlawed war |
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Prohibition |
a ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor anywhere in the United States |
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Bootleggers |
smugglers sometimes hid bottles of liquor in their boots |
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Repeal |
cancellation |
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League of Women Voters |
the organization educated voters, as it does today |
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Equal Rights Amendment |
stated that "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of Gender" |
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Suburb |
a community located outside a city |
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Fad |
an activity or a fashion that is taken up with great passion for a short time |
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Flapper |
these young women rebelled against tradition ways of thinking and acting |
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Jazz |
combined with West African rhythms, African American work songs and Spiritual, and European harmonies |
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Expatriate |
people who leave their own country to live in a foreign land |
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Company Union |
labor organizations that were actually controlled by management |
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Sabotage |
the secret destruction of property or interference with work in factories |
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Anarchist |
people who oppose organized government |
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Deport |
expelled from the country |
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Nativism |
anti-foreign feelings |
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Quota system |
allowed only a certain number of people from each country to enter the United States |
