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NAACP
NAACP - National Association for the advancement of colored people -
Credit
credit - ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment -
Isolationsim
Isolationism - a policy of remaining apart from afairs
Wilson's foreign policy -
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Woodrow Wilson
Wilson's Precidency -
Organized Crime
Organized Crime - Crimes planned out by groups of people
Organized crime starts out with mass immigrations -
Fundamentalism
Fundamentalism - religion that upholds strict/literal interpretations of scripture
Religious Fanactics -
Communism and the Red Scare
Communism - all the property and jobs are government owned and everyone receives the same
The U.S is fearful of Communists -
Bootlegger
Bootlegger - illegal transportor of alcoholic beverages
During Prohibtion -
Period: to
Prohibition
Alcholic beverages are illegal -
Quota System
Quota System - limits the number of immigrants who may enter the U.S based on nationality -
Period: to
Warren G. Harding
Harding's Presidency -
Flapper
Flapper- Outgoing female teenager who went against social and cultural norms. -
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Calvin Cooldige
Coolidge's Presidency -
Installment Plan
Installment Plan - Arrangement for payment by installment
by the 1920's everyone was using installment plans -
Scopes trial
U.S high school teacher John Scopes violated Tennessee's butler act which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state funded school. -
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance - Cultural , artistic and social expansion that took place in harlem new york for african americans -
The Apollo/The Cotton Club
Harlems Clubs -
Route 66
Route 66 - Most famous highway running from Chicago, illinois to Santa monica , california -
Speakeasies
Speakeasies - illegal liquor store or nightclub
Used during prohibtion -
Buying on margin
Buying on margin - borrowing money from a broker to purchase stock -
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday - share prices on the new york stock exchange completely collapsed -
Period: to
Herbert Hoover
Hoover's Presidency -
Period: to
The Great Depression
An economic decline in America -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act - increased import tariffs as much as 50% -
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Dow Jones Industrial Average - average of 30 significant stocks traded on the new york stock exchange -
Federal home loan bank act
Federal home loan bank act - gave loans to bank in order to extend mortgages -
Bonus Army
Bonus army - ww1 veterans gathered in washington demanding cash redemptions -
Prohibtion Ends
prohibition - prevention of the sale and manufacturing of alcohol -
Period: to
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt's Presidency -
Price Support
Price Support - government assistance in maintaining the levels of market prices regardless of supply or demand
Used during the great depression -
Dust Bowl
dust bowl - area of the great plains that went into a drought which caused large dust storms -
Hoover Dam
Orignally called the Boulder Dam is established -
reconstruction finance corporation
reconstruction finance corporation - government corporation that provided financial support to state and local governments -
Direct relief
Direct relief - a nonprofit started to help the poor