A | B |
Supply and Demand | Factory decide how much to make by how much people want to buy |
Drought | No rain for a long time |
Business cycle | The economy grows and gets smaller and is constantly changing. |
Stock Market | This is a place that companies sell shares to the public when the company needs money. People buy hoping to make money. |
Investors | People who buy shares in companies hoping to make money. |
Buying on the margin | When people borrow in order to buy shares in the stock market |
speculation | when people buy shares in companies hoping to make a lot of money. |
Domestic Policy | The government's response to an issue--it might make is easy or difficult to borrow. |
assembly line | each person does a different job in making a product |
installment plan | paying money over time for a product |
mass media | communication that reaches lots of people--radio, newspaper |
Dawes Plan | US loaned money to Germany after WWI so it could pay debts |
jazz | African Americans created this music |
progressive reform | change that helped the workers--not popular in 1920's |
Charles Lindberg | flrst to fly from New York to Paris |
18th Amendment | outlawed selling or making liquor |
19th Amendment | gave women the right to vote |
disarmament | stop making and selling weapons |
Harlem Renaissance | growth of arts, music, writing in black community |
nativism | a feeling against immigrants because they take jobs |
Great Migration | African Americans move to the north for jobs |
inflation | prices rise sharply |
Palmer Raids | US response to bombings it thought were by Communists |