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| assembly line | a system in which each worker does a different job in putting together a product |
| installment plan | the payment of money over time toward the total cost of an item |
| mass media | the communications that reach large numbers of people |
| jazz | a kind of music created by African Americans in the South in the early 1900s |
| renaissance | a time of new interest and activity in the art |
| inflation | a sharp rise in the price of goods |
| deport | to force a person who is not a citizen to leave the country by government order |
| Charles Lindbergh | first person to fly from New York to Paris |
| Warren G. Harding | U.S. president elected in 1920; chose friends for his Cabinet |
| Henry Ford | created the assembly line method of building cars |
| Babe Ruth | famous baseball player who hit 60 homeruns |
| Langston Hughes | a writer who was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance |
| 19th Amendment | gave women the right to vote in all elections |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | were accused of being Communists and murderers |
| Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay | writers during the Harlem Renaissance |
| Ku Klux Klan | terrorist group that attacked African Americans |
| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) | group formed in 1909 to gain equal rights for African Americans |
| 1929 | when the stock market crashed |
| stock market | a place where stocks, or shares in businesses, are bought and sold |
| depression | a time when the economy of a nation falls sharply |
| default | to fail to pay a loan when it is due |
| foreclose | to take the property of someone who has failed to pay back a loan |
| bonus | money given in addition to what is owed |
| Herbert Hoover | U.S. president who ordered troops to drive the Bonus Army out of Washington, D.C. |
| drought | a long period of very dry weather |
| migrant worker | a worker who travels from place to place to harvest crops |
| 1921 | year that a law was passed limiting the number of immigrants allowed in U.S. |
| Dust Bowl | name for Great Plains when they became very dry from drought during Great Depression |
| public works | construction projects paid for by public funds |
| relief | help given to poor people |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | U.S. president elected in 1932 during the Great Depression |
| 1934 | when thousands of farmers left their farms in the Great Plains dust bowl |
