a new type of young women : rebellious, energetic, fun loving, & bold
What is flapper?
100
an intense fear of communism and other pollitically radical idea
What is red scare?
100
economic alliances w` foreign countries
What is isolation?
100
expression of the times, of the breathless, energetic, super active times
What is jazz age?
100
a record 16.4 million shares were sold compared with the average 4 million to 8 million shares a day earlier in the year
What is Blakc Tuesday?
200
the total amount of money the federal gov't borrows and has to pay back
What is national debt?
200
the practice of making high risk investments in hopes of getting a huge return
What is speculation?
200
print, film, and broadcast methods of communicating information to large numbers of people.
What is mas media?
200
fear the banks would run out of money, people ran to the banks to make withdraws
What is bank runs?
200
leaders who manipulate people with half-truths, deceptive promise, and scare tatics
What is demagogues?
300
John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution after it was banned
What is the Scopes Trial?
300
a group of people disconnected fromtheir country & its values
What is last generation
300
so much soil blew out of the central and southern Great plains that the region became known as the . . .
What is dust bowl?
300
one that depends on lager amounts of spending by consumers
What is consumer economy?
300
to attract these less wealthy investors, stockbrokers encouraged a practice called . . .
What is buying on margin?
400
harlem also become the homes of an african american literary awakening
What is harlem renaissance
400
gov't-funded projects to build public facilities
What is the public works program?
400
the customer makes partial payments @ set intervals over a period of time until the debt is paid off
What is a installment plan?
400
repealing prohibition
What is 21st admnt.
400
came to refer to the relief, recovery, and reform programs FDR's administration that were aimed @ combating the Great Depression
What is the New Deal?
500
paying out more money from the annual federal budget than the gov't receives in revenues
What is deficit spending?
500
the gov't owned all land & property, 1 political party controlled the gov't & the needs of the country always took priority over the rights of individuals
What is communism
500
gov't takeover and ownership, of banks and the redistribution of their welath
What is nationalization
500
to provide financial security, in the form of regular payments, to people who could not support themselves