A | B |
capitalism | an economic system based on private property and free enterprise |
anarchist | someone who believes there should be no government |
deport | to expel from a country |
integration | whites and African Americans living side-by-side |
lease | to rent |
laissez-faire | a belief that government should have as little involvement in private life as possible |
recession | an economic downturn |
gross national product | the total value of all goods and services produced by a nation |
productivity | worker output, per given amount of time and resources |
installment buying | purchasing products by making small payments over a period of time |
flapper | a carefree young woman of the 1920s |
mass media | forms of communication that can reach millions of people |
expatriate | someone who chooses to live in another country |
Prohibition | a total ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor throughout the United States, achieved through the Eighteenth Amendment |
nativism | belief that native-born Americans are superior to foreigners |
quota system | an arrangement setting the number of immigrants allowed from each country |
evolution | scientific theory that humans and other species changed and developed over long periods of time |