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Stock Market
A market where you can exchange stock. -
Dow Jones Average
A price- weighted average of 30 significant stocks traded on the NYSE and NASDAQ -
Model T
The automobile company Ford, made the Model T, which was the most popular car in the world -
Great Migration
The great movement of African Americans from the South to larger cities, looking for jobs. -
Welfare Capitalism
Capitalism including comprehensive social welfare policies, it’s also the practice of businesses providing welfare services to their employees. -
Flappers
Flappers were young women in the 1920s, they were very fashionable and liked to have fun. -
Harlem Renaissance
An era where, cultural, social, and artistic esplosion took place in Harlem. -
The Jazz Age
A post World War 1 movement where, Jazz music and dance emerged, it ended in the 1930's, with the initial stages of the Great Depression, but Jazz is still present in American Culture. -
Growth of Radio
The radio industry, was progessively stablshing a huge market, with demand of radios going up from 60,000 radios, to 10,250,000 radios used at home, all capable of broadcasting more than 500 radio stations. -
Prohibition
The nationwide constitutional ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages . -
Organized Crime
After Prohibition was established, organize crime rose, which was mainly Bootlegers fighting to control alcohol manufacture and distribution. Al Capone was one of the leaaders of this crime. -
Labor Problems in the 1920s
Labor was pretty bad during the 1920's, Steel workers would work for 12 shifts, with 65+nhours a week. Unions would emerge, but would be stopped in no time, the coal workers tought brighter, and when winter set in, nad Coal was in high demand, they decided not to work until they got a raise, which did happen. -
Nativism
Patriotism beliefs that, foreignerrs could never truly be loyal to the US, religions such as Catholicism, Judaism, or orthodox couldn't be trusted, they were scared of such groups taking American's jobs. -
Amelia Earhart
American pilot, and writer She was the first female to aviate by herself across the Atlantic Ocean. In an attempt to fly around the world, she disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean. -
The Red Scare
The fear of Americans that a Communsit government would take place in the United States.
