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NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of colored people -
Credit
Ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment -
Isolationism
Policy of remaining apart from affaires wilson foreign policy -
Period: to
Woodrow wilson
Presidency -
Organized crime
Crimes planned out by groups of people -
Fundamentalism
religion that upholds strict/ literal interpertations -
communism and the red scare
all jobs are gov. owned and everyone the same -
bootlegger
illegal transportor of alcoholic beverages -
Period: to
Prohibition
Alcholic beverages are illegal -
Quota system
Limits the number of immagrants who may enter the US per year -
Period: to
Warren G Harding
Presidecy -
Flapper
Outgoing female who went against social and cultural normalalities -
Period: to
Calvin Cooldige
Presidency -
The apollo
Harlem clubs -
The cotton Club
Harlem Club -
Installment plan
Arrangement for payment by installments -
scopes trial
US teacher taught human evolution -
Route 66
highway running from chicago to california -
Black tuesday
Share prices on the NY stock exchange -
Speakeasies
illegal nightclub or liquor store -
Buying on Margin
Borrowing money from a broker to buy stock -
Period: to
Herbert Hoover
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Period: to
The great Depression
Economic decline in America -
Hawley-smoot tariff act
increased tariffs as much as 50% -
Bonus Army
WW1 vets. gathered in DC wanting cash redemptions -
Dow Jones IA
average of 30 stocks traded on NY stock exchange -
Federal loan bank act
gave loans to bancks to extend morgages -
Prohbiton ends
Alcohol sale is legal -
Period: to
Franklin D Roosevelt
Roosevelt Presidency -
Price Support
government assistance in maintaining the levels of market prices -
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
government corporation that provided financial support to state and local governments -
Diect Relief
a nonprofit started to help the poor