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unit 3 vocab
american history
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| virtues | behavior showing high moral standards |
| teapot dome scandal | The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923 |
| league of nations | the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace |
| reparations | the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged. |
| Washington naval conference | the world's largest naval powers gathered in Washington, D.C. for a conference to discuss naval disarmament and ways to relieve growing tensions in East Asia. |
| Implementation | the process of putting a decision or plan into effect; execution. |
| Scentific Managment | management of a business, industry, or economy, according to principles of efficiency derived from experiments in methods of work and production, especially from time-and-motion studies. |
| Urbanization | the process of making an area more urban. |
| Urban | in, relating to, or characteristic of a town or city. |
| Rural | in, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town. |
| modernism | modern character or quality of thought, expression, or technique. |
| fundamentalism | a form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture. |
| quota system | Quotaism is the concept of organizing society by a quota system, whether by racial, gender, language or another demographic attribute |
| cultural diversity | the existence of a variety of cultural or ethnic groups within a society. |
| 18th amendment | The 18th Amendment of the United States Constitution established the prohibition of "intoxicating liquors" in the United States |
| boot leggers | people that would put alcohol in there boots and take it where there not supposed to |
| speakeasy | an illicit liquor store or nightclub. |
| racketeering | an illicit liquor store or nightclub. |
| Monopoly | the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service. |
| era | An era is a span of time defined for the purposes of chronology or historiography |
| flapper | wore skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior |
| 19th amendment | The 19th Amendment (1920) to the Constitution of the United States provides men and women with equal voting rights |
| irrational | not logical or reasonable. |
| exploit | make full use of and derive benefit from |
| renaissance | the revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries. |
| oppression | prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control |
| aspiration | prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control. |
| jazz | type of music people like to dance to |
| prosperity | the state of being prosperous. |
| apparatus | the technical equipment or machinery needed for a particular activity or purpose. |
| bedrock | solid rock underlying loose deposits such as soil or alluvium. |
| derrick | a kind of crane with a movable pivoted arm for moving or lifting heavy weights, especially on a ship. |
| detrimental | tending to cause harm. |
| exorbitant | unreasonably high. |
| fusion | the process or result of joining two or more things together to form a single entity. |
| rotary | (of motion) revolving around a center or axis; rotational. |
| temperance | abstinence from alcoholic drink. |
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