AH Unit 4 FLASHCARDS (1920s) OLD U4 (NOT DONE FOR 25-26)

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Fordney-McCumber Tariff

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A set of regulations, enacted by Congress in 1922, that raised taxes on imports to record levels to protect American businesses against foreign competition.

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Ohio gang

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A group of close friends and political supporters whom President Warren G. Harding appointed to his cabinet.

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Teapot Dome scandal

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Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall's secret leasing of oil-rich public land to private companies in return for money and land.

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Urban sprawl

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The unplanned and uncontrolled spreading of cities into surrounding regions.

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Consumerism

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A preoccupation with the purchasing of material goods or acquiring goods in ever-greater amounts.

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Installment plan

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An arrangement in which a purchaser pays over an extended time, without having to put down much money at the time of purchase.

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Xenophobia

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An unreasoned fear of things or people seen as foreign or strange.

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Nativism

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Favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign-born people.

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Isolationism

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Opposition to political and economic entanglements with other countries.

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Communism

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An economic and political system based on one-party government and state ownership of property.