UNIT 5 3 Post WWI & 20s

Pregunta	Respuesta
Domestic affairs	Internal (national) issues—stuff that happens in America
Tariff	• Tax on imported goods • Example: Smoot-Hawley Tariff raised taxes on all imported goods
Isolationism	• When a country keeps to itself and stays out of world conflicts & wars • Example: America after WWI
Protectionism	• Trying to protect native born Americans and American businesses • Examples: limiting immigration; passing a tariff on German steel; “buy American” programs
Communism	• The government makes all economic decisions
Red Scare	• Post WWI reaction to communism—driven by fear and mistrust
Sacco and Vanzetti	• Italian-immigrant-anarchists—accused of murder—and executed
Anarchy	• NO Government
Palmer Raids	• Raids on suspected communists
19th amendment	• Gave women the right to vote
Great Migration	• Movement of African-Americans from southern farms to northern cities
Jim Crow	• Segregation laws that kept Blacks and Whites separate in the South
Urban Areas	• Cities
Rural Areas	• The country
Harlem Renaissance	• A celebration of African-American culture in the 1920s: Jazz Art Poetry Literature
Prohibition	• 13-year ban on alcohol (1920s)
Speakeasy	• Secret bar where people drank during prohibition
Popular culture	• The stuff most people do and like
Consumerism	• Buying more and more all the time
Installment Plan	• Buying stuff on payments (instead of paying cash upfront)
Flapper	Young, modern, 1920s woman: Short hair Short dresses Smoked Drank Alcohol
Buying Stocks on margin	• Making a down payment on a stock & trying to sell it for a profit (before paying for the rest)
Stock Speculation	• Buying stocks in anticipation that their price will go up (regardless of the true value of the stock)
Herbert Hoover	President 1929-1933 All about businesses & Laissez Faire economics

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