8th Grade 1920 American History Flashcards

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System for purchasing items on credit
Installment buying
Period in which the economy slumps
Recession
Period of increased stock trading and rising stock prices
Bull market
Young woman who rebelled against traditional ways of thinking
Flapper
Act of secretly destroying property or interferring with work
Sabotage
Person who opposes organized government
Anarchist
Person who smuggled or made illegal liquor
Bootlegger
Person who leaves his or her country to live in a foreign land
Expatriate
Historic period during which alcoholic beverages were banned
Prohibition
View that supports keeping foreigners out of the United States
Nativism
Sometimes called the "noble experiment", banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of liquor
Eighteenth Amendment
Which group benefited from the passing of the 19th amendment
Woman
What issue was involved in the Scopes Trial?
Whether the theory of evolution could be taught in public schools
What name was given to the period of achievements of black artists, writers, and musicians in New York during the 1920s?
The Harlem Renaissance
Name the teenager that swam across the English Channel in the 1920s
Gertrude Ederle