| A | B |
|---|
| Baby Boom | babies born after WW2 |
| Roaring Twenties | 'Jazz Age' and economic boom |
| Dust Bowl | Great Plains' wind storms |
| Black Tuesday | stock market crashed |
| workers' strike | protest of unsafe working conditions |
| Great Migration | move of African Americans to northern cities |
| Civil War | conflict between the states |
| Homestead Act of 1862 | cheap land to pioneer settlers |
| Jim Crow laws | secret laws against African Americans |
| Bust | time of fast economic decline |
| Reconstruction | after Civil War; includes 13th, 14th, 15th amendment |
| Brown v. Board of Education | segregation of public schools |
| Installment buying | small downpayment and monthly payments over time |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | originated with Rosa Parks |
| Fireside Chats | FDR's radio broadcasts |
| New Deal | FDR's plan to bring the country out of the Great Depression |
| Transcontinental Railroad | joining of the Union and Pacific railroads spanning the entire U.S. |
| Great Depression | 1930's economic decline |
| Selective Service Act | military draft |
| sharecropping | farming and being paid with a 'share' of the crop |
