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| The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol |
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| The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex |
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| The Harlem Renaissance (the New Negro Movement) refers to the flowering of African American intellectual life during the 1920s and 1930s |
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| Mass media denotes a section of the media specifically designed to reach a large audience. The term was coined in the 1920s with the advent of nationwide radio networks, mass-circulation newspapers and magazines |
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| the production of large quantities of a standardized article (often using assembly line techniques) |
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| In United States history, the term Red Scare denotes two distinct periods of strong anti-communism: the First Red Scare, from 1917 to 1920, and the Second Red Scare, from 1947 to 1957 |
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| The Bonus Army was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand immediate cash-payment redemption of their service certificate |
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| The term business cycle (or economic cycle) refers to economy-wide fluctuations in production or economic activity over several months or years |
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| Policies between WWI and WWII. Include: Arms control such as Five-Power Treaty of 1922 and Kellog-Briand Act of 1928 that attempted to outlaw war. Increased immigration from Eastern Europe. |
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| The ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future |
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| Government spending, in excess of revenue, of funds raised by borrowing rather than from taxation |
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| An area of Oklahoma, Kansas, and northern Texas affected by severe soil erosion (caused by windstorms) in the early 1930s, which obliged many people to move |
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| the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s |
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| A shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s |
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| The economic measures introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to counteract the effects of the Great Depression. It involved a massive public works program, complemented by the large-scale granting of loans, and succeeded in reducing unemployment by between 7 and 10 million |
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| Created in 1913 in an attempt to prevent bank failures |
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| Any government system that provides monetary assistance to people with an inadequate or no income(in the US) A federal insurance program that provides benefits to retired people and those who are unemployed or disabled |
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