Key Words - 1920s USA

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An American ideal, in which equality is available to all.
American Dream
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African-American movement emphasising racial and equality.
Black Power Movement
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The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.
Civil Rights
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In the USA, the federal law-making body, compossed of the Senate and the House of Representives.
Congress
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Long period of financial problems in the economy involving lower living standards.
Depression
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Young women in the USA in the 1920s who did not behave as traditional society expected.
Flappers
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Method to buy goods and pay in regular instalments.
Hire Purchase
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Slum area of makeshift shacks where unemployed workers lived in 1930s in USA.
Hooverville
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White American group using violence against Black Americans and other minority groups. Founded in 1866.
Ku Klux Klan
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Production in large quantities of goods, especially using assembly lines.
Mass Production
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Extreme opposition in the USA to Communism in the 1940s and 50s, led by Senator Joe McCarthy
McCarthyism
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A civil rights organisation in the USA - National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
NAACP
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Name given to F. D. Roosevelt's policies to help the USA recover from the Great Deppresion.
New Deal
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Law banning the production and sale of alcohol in the USA between 1920 and 1933.
Prohibition
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A fear of Communism promoted by a group or a government (USA in early 1920s).
Red Scare
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A place where shares are bought and sold.
Stock Market
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Highest court in a country or state
Supreme Court
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A tax to pay on imported goods or services.
Tariff
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African-American movement emphasising racial and equality.

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Black Power Movement

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The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.

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Card 4

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In the USA, the federal law-making body, compossed of the Senate and the House of Representives.

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Card 5

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Long period of financial problems in the economy involving lower living standards.

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