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Flashcards: The Roaring Twenties

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ScandalA bad (legally or morally) situation involving a person of some prominence that becomes public
BoomPeriod of economic proserity
ProsperityEconomic good times
RuralPertaining to the country
UrbanPertaining to the city
Installment buyingPurchasing an item by paying a little now and the rest in monthly payments
Buying on marginPurching stock with a little money down with the promise of paying the balance at sometime in the future
ProhibitionPeriod of time when alcohol was illegal in America due to the 18th Amendment
BootleggersSmugglers of illegal alcohol during the Prohibition era
RepealTo revoke (take back or cancel) a previously passed law
SuffrageThe right to vote
TalkiesMovies with sound
FadsItems or activities that are very popular for a short time
FlappersYoung women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion
RadicalsPeople that believe in ideas that are far from the norm
AnarchistsPeople that do not believe in organized government
RedsCommunists
FundamentalismConservative beliefs in the Bible and that it should be literally believed and applied
Ku Klux KlanRadical organization who's members disliked non WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants)