| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Scandal | A bad (legally or morally) situation involving a person of some prominence that becomes public |
| Boom | Period of economic proserity |
| Prosperity | Economic good times |
| Rural | Pertaining to the country |
| Urban | Pertaining to the city |
| Installment buying | Purchasing an item by paying a little now and the rest in monthly payments |
| Buying on margin | Purching stock with a little money down with the promise of paying the balance at sometime in the future |
| Prohibition | Period of time when alcohol was illegal in America due to the 18th Amendment |
| Bootleggers | Smugglers of illegal alcohol during the Prohibition era |
| Repeal | To revoke (take back or cancel) a previously passed law |
| Suffrage | The right to vote |
| Talkies | Movies with sound |
| Fads | Items or activities that are very popular for a short time |
| Flappers | Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion |
| Radicals | People that believe in ideas that are far from the norm |
| Anarchists | People that do not believe in organized government |
| Reds | Communists |
| Fundamentalism | Conservative beliefs in the Bible and that it should be literally believed and applied |
| Ku Klux Klan | Radical organization who's members disliked non WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants) |
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