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S.S. Vocab Unit 4
Term | Definition |
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1920s Installment Buying | during the 1920's many people bought items on credit - it was a new policy of "buy now pay later" - put many into debt |
Isolation | a foreign policy of having little to do with foreign nations - American thought this was the best policy in the 1800's and after WWI |
The Growing Auto Industry | other industries such as steel, road construction, gas stations and restaurants increased |
Harlem Renaissance | During the 1920's large numbers of African American musicians, artists, and writers settled in Harlem in New York City - led to a rebirth in African American culture |
Flapper | in the 1920's women who rebelled against traditional values - these women dressed differently smoked in public and visited speakeasies |
Deficit Spending | FDR used this practice during the great Depression - the government practice of spending more money than it takes in from taxes |
Hoover's Response to the Great Depression | did very little to help |
FDR's Response to the Great Depression | attacked problems with drastic changes & gave people a lot of help |
New Deal | enacted by FDR and Congress - created programs to provide jobs such as the CCC and WPA, fixed banking problems with the FDIC |
Appeasement | the practice of giving in to an aggressor nation's demands in order to preserve peace & avoid war, for example, when Great Britain & France gave in to Hitler at the Munich Conference |