American Nation Chap. 25
Vocabulary Words from the American Nation, Social Studies text for Chapter 25
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- anarchists
- people who oppose organized government
- communism
- an economic system in which all wealth and property are owned by the community
- Equal Rights Amendment
- A proposed Amendment for women's rights that passed but was not ratified
- Kellogg-Briand Pact
- a treaty outlawing war
- suburb
- a community located outside a city
- company unions
- labor organizations that were actually controlled by management
- stocks
- shares of ownership
- nativism
- anti-foreign feeling
- installment buying
- buying on credit
- Teapot Dome Scandal
- Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall bribed by oil executives, sent to prison
- jazz
- music from New Orleans that comobined West African rythms, African American work songs, and spirituals with European harmonies
- bull market
- a period of increased stock trading and rising stock prices
- quota system
- allowed only a certan number of people from each country to enter the U.S.
- sabatoge
- the secret destruction of property or interference with work in factories
- bootleggers
- people who manufactor or smuggle alcohol illegally
- recession
- a sharp economic slump
- flappers
- Young women who rebelled against traditional ways of thinking and acting
- prohibition
- a ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor anywhere in the U.S.
- expatriates
- people who leave their own country to live in a foreign land
- deported
- expelled from the country
- disarmament
- the reduction of armed forces and weapons of war
- League of Women Voters
- a group organized to educate voters and to guarantee rights
- fad
- an activity or a fashion that is taken up with great passion for a short time
- repeal
- cancellation