Roaring 1920s Vocabulary

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What is the Red Scare?

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Fear of communist beliefs and people willing to spread them.

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a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups

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isolationism

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nativism

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prejudice against foreign-born people

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quotas

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limit on the quantity of something, a fixed number

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assembly line

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• An assembly line is a manufacturing process in which parts are added as the semi-finished assembly moves from workstation to workstation

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efficiency

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ability to avoid wasting materials, effort, money, and time in doing something or in producing a desired result

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speculation

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investment in stocks or property in hopes of making money but with high risk of loss

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• shareholder

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• owners of stock in a company, who receive dividends (portion of profit) from company sales.

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• consumer economy

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• economy dependent on consumer spending for growth and prosperity

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Lost Generation

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group of American writers who were disappointed with greed and consumerism in the 1920s