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History - 9 - Semester 2 Vocabulary
1920's-WWII Vocabulary
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9th Grade
06/10/2010

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flapper
Definition

A new type of woman;

young, rebellious, energetic and bold.

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demographic
Definition
Statistics that describe a population
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Barrio
Definition
Spanish-speaking neighborhood
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mass media
Definition
Print, film, and broadcast methods of communicating to large numbers of people.
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Jazz Age
Definition
The 1920's; an energetic time
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Lost Generation
Definition
Group of writers who felt disonnected from their country and it's values.
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Harlem Renaissance
Definition
An African-American literary awakening in Harlem, New York.
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bootleggers
Definition

Suppliers of illegal alchool

 

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Speakeasies
Definition
Alcoholic bars that operated illegaly
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Fundamentalism
Definition
Christian ideas that God and the Bible is completely true.
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Scopes Trial
Definition

Bryan vs. Darrow; Religion vs. Science;

Was Darwin's Theory of Evolution illegally taught or not?

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Communism
Definition

Lenin's form of communism was:

1. Gov't owned all land and property

2. A single politcal party

3. Country over individual rights

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Red Scare
Definition
An intense fear of communism and other radical ideas
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Isolationism
Definition
A policy in avoiding political or economic alliances with foreign contries
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quota
Definition
numerical limit
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Teapot Dome Scandal
Definition
Albert B. Fall gave gov't owned oil fields to private oil companies for money
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
Definition
Over 60 nations pledged not to threat war with eachother
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Consumer Economy
Definition
Largely dependent on costuomer spending
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installment plan
Definition
Partial payments over a period of time
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Gross National Product
Definition
Total value of goods and services a country produces
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Assembly Line
Definition
Where one worker does on specific task repeatedly
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Welfare Capitalism
Definition
Companies approach to fend off unions by raising wages and offering benefits; all in benefit to the company.
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speculation
Definition

High-risk investments in hopes of a huge return;

stockmarket.

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Buying on Margin
Definition
Buy a little now, and borrow the rest (later) etc.
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Dow Jones Industrial
Definition
An average of the stock prices of major industires
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Black Tuesday
Definition
When investors pulled out millions from the stock market
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Great Crash
Definition
The collapse of the stock market
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Great Depression
Definition
1929-1941(WWII)
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Business Cycle
Definition
A span in which the economy grows, then contracts
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Hoovervilles
Definition
Shelters of homeless
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Dust Bowl
Definition
1931-1940; A large dust storm that swept the midwest
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Penny Auctions
Definition
Farmers help one another by buying their foreclosed farm land for pennies then giving them back
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Twenty-First Amendment
Definition

Repealing Prohibition;

End of failed social experiement, curb on gangsters

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Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Definition
Highest import tax in American history
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Definition

Government credit, money, to large industries;

Money to banks

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Bonus Army
Definition

WWI veterans march to Washington DC to demand their war pension payments;

Were shot and terrorized at by the army, MacArthur

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New Deal
Definition
The relief, recovery, and reform programs of FDR's administration that were aimed at the Great Depression
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Hundred Days
Definition
FDR's pushing of programs through Congress to aid the country;
Provide relief, creat jobs, stimulate the economy
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