11th Grade Vocabulary Unit 5 Boom Time (1920s)

Definition: the intense loyalty to being native to a society and being against immigrants

• patriotism

• Americanism

• nativism

• exclusivism

Definition: movement from one place to another

• immigration

• emigration

• migration

• deportation

Definition: increased buying of goods and services

• purchasing

• procurement

• acquiring

• consumerism

Definition: relating to long established styles or ideas

• laws

• rules

• cultural

• tradition

Definition: relating to recent or contemporary styles or ideas

• modernity

• realism

• neo-culture

• trendy

Definition: American slang referring to communism

• red

• bourgeois

• communistic

• white

Definition: people who oppose all forms of government

• dissenters

• rebels

• anarchists

• patriots

Definition: a pseudoscience (false science) that deals with improving hereditary traits

• Eugenics

• genetics

• cloning

• selective breeding

Definition: a specified number or requirement based on a specific amount of time (ex: 100 per year)

• ratio

• dividend

• sum

• quota

Definition: a young, dramatic, stylish and unconventional woman in the 1920s

• bootlegger

• flapper

• g-girl

• fanny