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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 | Communication that reaches large numbers of people |
Jazz | A kind of music created by African Americans in the South |
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 |
Stock Market | A place where 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 when it is due |
Bonus | Money given in addition to what is owed. Extra money |
Drought | A long period of very dry weather |
Migrant Workers | A worker who travels from place to place to harvest crops |
Relief | Help given to poor people |
New Deal | Roosevelt’s plan for helping the U.S. economy during the Great Depression |
Fireside Chat | A radio speech given by President Roosevelt |
Conservative | A person who wants the government to do less for its citizens |
Liberal | A person who wants the government to do more for its citizens |
19th Amendment | Passed in 1920 and allowed women to vote |
communism | A political system in which the government owns all property and business |