| A | B |
|---|
| standard of living | necessitites and luxuries were more available and affordable |
| credit | putting money down and paying the balance in installments |
| massmedia | modes of communication that reached large numbers of people |
| advertising | increased |
| gibson girl | ideal of feminine beauty |
| flapper | opposite of gibson girl |
| route 66 | linked midwest w/ farwest |
| syndicates | chains of newspapers under centralized direction |
| tabloid | newspapers that were ideal for reading in crowded, rocking subway cars |
| materialism | importance of money and material goods |
| harlem renaissance | African americans began to express their own identity and a rising anger at Northern racism |
| Scopes monkey trial | man accused of teaching evolution, against the law |
| fundamentalism | a movement that affirmed the literal truth of the Bible |
| evangelist | fundamentalist preachers |
| speakeasies | where alcohol was illegally sold |
| bootleggers | people who sold alcohol was illegally sold |
| national origins act | steemed the tided of immigration |
| stocks | shares in business ownershiop whose price and value constantly fluctuate |
| speculation | way of gambling with short-term investments |
| Black tuesday | day stocks dropped |
