Standard Four: Part Three

Front

Which groups of people experienced economic hardships in the early 1920s?

Back

farmers, African Americans, immigrants, and laborers in specific industries

Front

Despite the low wages, American goods were becoming cheaper. This leads to a rise in ______________, where people buy goods instead of making them for themselves.

Back

consumerism

Front

What causes income disparity?

Back

a dramatic difference in income between the rich and the poor

Front

The "Buy Now, Pay Later" idea refers to consumers using _____________.

Back

installment plans

Front

Fashionable young women who wore skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, smoked, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered immoral behavior. They were supported, promoted and often criticized by the media.

Back

Flappers

Front

What describes a cultural, social, and artistic explosion of African American talent during the 1920s?

Back

Harlem Renaissance

Front

War-time propaganda turned American nativism into _________, which is a dislike of people from other countries.

Back

xenophobia

Front

Congress decided to limit immigration from southern and eastern Europe and Asians were barred entirely. This refers to the ___________ which set up a quota system to control and restrict immigration based on Social Darwinism and Anglo Saxon superiority.

Back

Immigration Act of 1924

Front

An economic and political system based on a single-governmental party, equal distribution of resources, no private property, and rule by a dictatorship.

Back

Communism

Front

Red Scare

Back

A period of intense fear of communism in the United States, notably in the 1920s and during the Cold War.