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roaring 20s
history class
Term | Definition |
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Assembly Line | -Manufacturing using a conveyor belt to move materials to workers who stay in one place to work- |
Installment buying | -Paying for items in small monthly payments- |
Tariff | -Tax on imported goods- |
Laissez-faire economics | -Theory that business, if free of government regulation, will act in ways that benefit the nation- |
Flapper | -A young women eager to try the latest fashion, dance, or fad- |
Prohibition | -Legal ban on alcohol imposed by the 18th amendment- |
Harlem Renaissance | -A burst of African-American culture in the 1920s-1930s- |
Herbert Hoover | -Republican president who. failed to halt the Great Depression- |
Great Depression |