Boom and Bust

The practice of making high-risk investments in hopes of obtaining large profits

• Buying on Margin

• Deficit Spending

• Speculation

• Pump Priming

The system of buying stocks in which a buyer pays a small percentage of the purchase price while the broker advances the rest.

• Buring on Margin

• Direct Relief

• Installment Plan

• Quota System

The production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly lines.

• Consumer Revolution

• Business Cycle

• Fundamentalism

• Mass Production

The arrangement of equipment and workers in which work passes from operation to operation in a direct line until the product is assembled.

• Trickle Down

• Overproduction

• Assembly Line

• Mass Production

A flood of new, affordable goods in the decades after World War 1.

• Overproduction

• Consumer Revolution

• Speculation

• Rugged Individualism

When money or food is given directly from the government to the needy.

• Direct Relief

• Quota System

• Localism

• Social Security

production in excess of need or stipulated amount

• Mass Production

• Overproduction

• Quota System

• Installment Plan

A method of purchase in which the buyer makes a small down payment and then pays off the rest of the debt in regular monthly payments.

• Buying on Margin

• Deficit Spending

• Installment Plan

• Fundamentalism

The forbidding by law fo the manufacture, transport, and sale of alcohol.

• Fundamentalism

• Modernism

• Localism

• Prohibition

Limiting by nationality the number of immigrants who may enter the U.S. each year

• Quota System

• Pump Priming

• Modernism

• Speculation