1920s Vocabulary Quiz

A person who believes in the belief that property and goods belong to the state, and should be run by the government.

• anarchists

• communists

• socialism

• imperialists

A person favoring a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.

• anarchists

• communists

• socialism

• isolationists

A person who takes extreme political positions.

• moderate

• radical

• socialist

• anarchist

A political and economic theory that believes that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the government.

• capitalism

• isolationism

• socialism

• prohibition

An economic system based on private ownership and free enterprise.

• capitalism

• isolationism

• socialism

• suburbs

A person who believes in having no government.

• anarchist

• red scare

• flapper

• communist

To expel (a foreigner) from a country, typically on the grounds of illegal status or for having committed a crime.

• deport

• installment buying

• red scare

• 21st amendment

The promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of the radical views of communism or anarchism by a society or state.

• prohibition

• 18th amendment

• flapper

• red scare

A system for paying for goods by installments, or paying in periodic payments.

• suburbs

• installment buying

• socialism

• capitalism

In the 1920s, young women who cut their hair short, wore short skirts, drank and smoked in public; unconventional standards of behavior at the time.

• anarchist

• communist

• nativist

• flapper