Flashcards
UNIT 5 3 Post WWI & 20s
Flashcards do conjunto (24)
- 1Domestic affairsInternal (national) issues—stuff that
happens in America - 2Tariff• Tax on imported goods
• Example: Smoot-Hawley Tariff raised
taxes on all imported goods - 3Isolationism• When a country keeps to itself and stays
out of world conflicts & wars
• Example: America after WWI - 4Protectionism• Trying to protect native born Americans
and American businesses
• Examples: limiting immigration; passing a
tariff on German steel; “buy American”
programs - 5Communism• The government makes all economic
decisions - 6Red Scare• Post WWI reaction to communism—driven
by fear and mistrust - 7Sacco and Vanzetti• Italian-immigrant-anarchists—accused of
murder—and executed - 8Anarchy• NO Government
- 9Palmer Raids• Raids on suspected communists
- 1019th amendment• Gave women the right to vote
- 11Great Migration• Movement of African-Americans from
southern farms to northern cities - 12Jim Crow• Segregation laws that kept Blacks and
Whites separate in the South - 13Urban Areas• Cities
- 14Rural Areas• The country
- 15Harlem Renaissance• A celebration of African-American culture
in the 1920s:
Jazz
Art
Poetry
Literature - 16Prohibition• 13-year ban on alcohol (1920s)
- 17Speakeasy• Secret bar where people drank during
prohibition - 18Popular culture• The stuff most people do and like
- 19Consumerism• Buying more and more all the time
- 20Installment Plan• Buying stuff on payments (instead of
paying cash upfront) - 21FlapperYoung, modern, 1920s woman:
Short hair
Short dresses
Smoked
Drank Alcohol - 22Buying Stocks on margin• Making a down payment on a stock &
trying to sell it for a profit (before paying
for the rest) - 23Stock Speculation• Buying stocks in anticipation that their
price will go up (regardless of the true
value of the stock) - 24Herbert HooverPresident
1929-1933
All about businesses & Laissez Faire
economics
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