THE ROARIN

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THE ROARIN 20s

• By Kaitlyn Cheney
• Period 9

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Anarchy

• Absence of any form of political authority
• political disorder and confusion

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Assembly line

• An arrangement of workers, machines, and
  equipment in which the product being assembled
  passes consecutively from operation from
  operation until completed

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Bull Market

• Rising stock market

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Capitalism

• An economic system in which the means of
  production and distribution are privately or
  corporately owned and development is
  proportionate to the accumulation and
  reinvestment of profits gained in a free market.

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communism

• An economic system that promotes the
  establishment of a classless, stateless society
  based on common ownership of the means of
  production

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Emergency Quota Act of 1921

• Limit on immigrants from southern and eastern
  Europe

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Fad

• A fashion that is taken up with great enthusiasm
  for a brief period of time a craze

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Flapper

• A young woman who embraced the fashions and urban
  attitudes of the 1920s

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Installment Buying

• You would make a small down payment and pay for
  the rest of the item in installments

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Intolerance

• Not accepted
• ex communism
• alcohol

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Isolationism

• The foreign policy of staying out of other
  nations affairs except in self-defense

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KKK

• A group formed in 1866 hat wanted to restore
  democratic control of the South and keep former
  slaves powerless the group called for racially
  and morally pure America

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National Origins Act of 1924

• A law that severely restricted immigration by
  establishing a system of national quotas
  discriminating immigrants from southern and
  eastern Europe and excluded Asians

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Nativist

• A native-born American who wanted to eliminate
  foreign influence

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Prohibition

• The banning of the manufacture, sale, and
  possession of alcoholic beverages

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Recession

• Downward trend in the business cycle
  characterized by a decline in production and
  employment

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Red Scare

• In 1919-1920, a wave of panic from fear of a
  Communist revolution

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Return to Normalcy

• Hardings promise after the war the Americans
  would be able to return to their normal lives

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Sacco and Vanzetti

• A 1920 case involving two Italian immigrants that
  were self-proclaimed anarchists who were charged
  with the murder of a shoe factory pay master and
  guard

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Scopes Trial

• John Scopes, a high school teacher, was charged
  for teaching evolution
• Found guilty
• Supreme Court repealed it

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Speakeasy

• A nightclub that illegally sells alcohol

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Stock Market

• The market in which shares are issued and traded
  either through exchanges or over-the-counter
  markets

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Volstead Act

• Banning of saloons and alcohol
• Enforced prohibition

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Wets vs. Drys

• Wets were against prohibition
• And drys were prohibitionists

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