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| Communism | = official ideology of the Soviet Union, characterized there by complete government ownership of land and property, single-party control of the government, the lack of individual rights, and the call for worldwide revolution |
| Red Scare | a period of intense fear of communism and other extreme ideas |
| Isolationism | policy of avoiding political or economic alliances with foreign countries |
| Disarmament | program in which nations voluntarily give up their weapons |
| Quota | a numerical limit |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | scandal of the Harding administration involving the granting of oil drilling rights on government land in return for money |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | agreement signed in 1928 in which nations agreed not to use war in their dealings with one another |
| Consumer Economy | an economy that depends on a large amount of buying by individuals |
| Installment Plan | a system that lets customers make partial payments (installments) at set intervals over a period of time |
| Assembly Line | manufacturing process in which each worker does one specialized task in the construction of the final project |
| Flapper | term coined during the 1920’s to describe a young woman with a fondness for dancing and brash actions |
| Demographics | statistics that describe that describe a population, such as data on race and income |
| Barrio | Spanish-speaking neighborhood |
| Mass Media | print and broadcast methods of communicating information to large numbers of people |
| Jazz Age | term used to describe the 1920’s |
| Lost Generation | group of writers of the 1920’s who shared the belief that they were all lost in a greedy, materialistic world that lacked moral values |
| Harlem Renaissance | African American literary awakening of the 1920’s, centered in Harlem |
| Bootlegger | during Prohibition, a supplier of illegal alcohol |
| Speakeasy | during Prohibition, a place where alcoholic drinks were served illegally |
| Fundamentalism | set of religious beliefs including traditional Christian ideas about Jesus Christ, the belief that the Bible was inspired by God and does not contain contradictions or errors, and the belief that the Bible is literally true |
| Scopes Trial | 1925 trial in Tennessee on the issue of teaching evolution in public schools |
