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