The Roaring 20s Vocab Practice

What is communism as defined in "The Roaring 20s Vocab"?

• The act of buying goods and services.

• A flourishing of Black literary and musical culture in the 1920s.

• An organized money system.

• A system in which the government owns and controls all goods and means of production, and private property is eliminated.

What does consumerism refer to according to "The Roaring 20s Vocab"?

• The status of being trusted to borrow money to buy something and pay it back later.

• The act of buying goods and services.

• A system in which the government owns and controls all goods and means of production.

• A flourishing of Black literary and musical culture in the 1920s.

What is the meaning of credit as mentioned in "The Roaring 20s Vocab"?

According to "The Roaring 20s Vocab", what is the economy?

• A system in which the government owns and controls all goods and means of production.

• The act of buying goods and services.

• An organized money system.

• The status of being trusted to borrow money to buy something and pay it back later.

What was the Harlem Renaissance as described in "The Roaring 20s Vocab"?

• The act of buying goods and services.

• An organized money system.

• A system in which the government owns and controls all goods and means of production.

• A flourishing of Black literary and musical culture in the 1920s, with many artists, writers and music clubs centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City.

What was the Ku Klux Klan, often referred to as the KKK?

• A political party founded during the Civil War

• A hate group founded in the southern United States after the Civil War

• A civil rights organization that emerged after the Civil War

• A military group that fought in the Civil War

What does the term "laissez-faire" refer to in a governmental context?

• A policy of high taxation and regulation

• A policy of strict governmental control over economic affairs

• A policy of non-interference in economic affairs as much as possible

• A policy of government ownership of businesses

What was the period of prohibition in the United States?

• 1910 to 1920

• 1920 to 1933

• 1933 to 1945

• 1945 to 1960

What is the stock market?

• A place where government bonds are exclusively traded

• A market where commodities like oil and gold are traded

• A market where shares of ownership in many different companies are bought and sold

• A centralized location where currency exchange takes place