Unit Four Vocabulary
The 1920's
Assembly Line - a process which helps products being built or put together for the purpose of mass production.
Bull Market - the pro-active action where the public takes an interest to invest in the stock market mainly to strike it rich.
Consumer Revolution - the spread of products which are desired and made cost friendly by the needs of the public.
Incentive - having a sense of motivation through an effort, work or personality wise to be better than the way you started.
Bootlegger - were runners of an illegal operations that provided alcohol to consumers alcohol, which had previously been abolished by the 18th amendment.
Jazz - a blending of music that was influenced through roots African-American blues and ragtime, and had popular European melodies, which occurred during the Harlem Renaissance
Modernism - a transition during a time period when scientific discoveries and fun time activities replaced the religious traditional social upbringings of the 1920's.
The Great Depression
Speculation (pg. 370) - having information that only a few people know about, while taking advantage of a situation or event for personal gain.
Business Cycle (pg. 370) - the transition in which industries go through periods of boom (growth) and bust (downfall).
Great Depression (pg. 370) - the decline of the U.S. economy which triggered outcomes such as numerous job losses, and was mainly associated with the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
Bread Line (pg. 374) - helpful charities and local agencies, whose aim was to provide families at no costs to very small bit of food.
Tenant Farmers (pg. 377) - decisions made during the Dust Bowl where farmers searched for better work by leaving their farmlands or staying to work on the lands owned by wealthy investors.
Localism (pg. 385) - the feeling that governments at the state and local level should aid people by providing them jobs and economic benefits at a faster rate than the national level.
Trickle Down Economics (pg. 396) - the economic belief that the government supplies money to banks and businesses, which sees impact in investments towards the development of products and a rise in employment in the workforce.
The 1920's
Assembly Line - a process which helps products being built or put together for the purpose of mass production.
Bull Market - the pro-active action where the public takes an interest to invest in the stock market mainly to strike it rich.
Consumer Revolution - the spread of products which are desired and made cost friendly by the needs of the public.
Incentive - having a sense of motivation through an effort, work or personality wise to be better than the way you started.
Bootlegger - were runners of an illegal operations that provided alcohol to consumers alcohol, which had previously been abolished by the 18th amendment.
Jazz - a blending of music that was influenced through roots African-American blues and ragtime, and had popular European melodies, which occurred during the Harlem Renaissance
Modernism - a transition during a time period when scientific discoveries and fun time activities replaced the religious traditional social upbringings of the 1920's.
The Great Depression
Speculation (pg. 370) - having information that only a few people know about, while taking advantage of a situation or event for personal gain.
Business Cycle (pg. 370) - the transition in which industries go through periods of boom (growth) and bust (downfall).
Great Depression (pg. 370) - the decline of the U.S. economy which triggered outcomes such as numerous job losses, and was mainly associated with the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
Bread Line (pg. 374) - helpful charities and local agencies, whose aim was to provide families at no costs to very small bit of food.
Tenant Farmers (pg. 377) - decisions made during the Dust Bowl where farmers searched for better work by leaving their farmlands or staying to work on the lands owned by wealthy investors.
Localism (pg. 385) - the feeling that governments at the state and local level should aid people by providing them jobs and economic benefits at a faster rate than the national level.
Trickle Down Economics (pg. 396) - the economic belief that the government supplies money to banks and businesses, which sees impact in investments towards the development of products and a rise in employment in the workforce.