1920s Vocabulary by Hannah Huggins https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7 Vocabulary en-us 2017-03-09 02:11:54 UTC 2025-10-08 21:11:27 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Ring.png mass production-The 1920s is often seen as a decade of prosperity for the U.S. economy and a large part of that supposed success came from the use of mass production and mass consumption. Mass production, employed by industrialists such as Henry Ford, allowed American economic output to grow at rates never before seen. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158854125 2017-03-09 02:13:41 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158854125 installment plans-Economic historians calculate that while in 1920, few middle class consumers used credit to buy goods hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158854241 2017-03-09 02:14:54 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158854241 advertising-the activity or profession of producing advertisements for commercial products or services. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158854285 2017-03-09 02:15:22 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158854285 mass consumer culture- focused on consumption of goods and services in society, which greatly influences values, activities and the social status of its members. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158854349 2017-03-09 02:16:19 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158854349 assembly line-A line of factory workers and equipment along which a product being assembled passes consecutively from operation to operation until completed. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158854468 2017-03-09 02:17:41 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158854468 racial stereotypes-any commonly known public belief about a certain social group or a type of individual. Stereotypes are often confused with prejudices, because, like prejudices, a stereotype is based on a prior assumption. Stereotypes are often created about people of specific cultures or races. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158854598 2017-03-09 02:19:32 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158854598 2nd KKK-is the name of three distinct movements in the United States that have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, anti-immigration, and, especially in later iterations, Nordicism, anti-Catholicism, and antisemitism. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158854746 2017-03-09 02:21:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158854746 nativism-the theory or doctrine that concepts, mental capacities, and mental structures are innate rather than acquired or learned. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158854784 2017-03-09 02:21:38 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158854784 Xenophobia-intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158854835 2017-03-09 02:22:27 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158854835 Red Scare-is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism. In the United States, the First Red Scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158854874 2017-03-09 02:22:57 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158854874 Bootlegging-illegal traffic in liquor in violation of legislative restrictions on its manufacture, sale, or transportation. The word apparently came into general use in the Midwest in the 1880s to denote the practice of concealing flasks of illicit liquor in boot tops when going to trade with Indians. The term became part of the American vocabulary when the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution effected the national prohibition of alcohol from 1920 until its repeal in 1933. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158854911 2017-03-09 02:23:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158854911 Jazz- a music genre that originated among African Americans in New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Since the 1920s jazz age, jazz has become recognized as a major form of musical expression. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158854974 2017-03-09 02:24:22 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158854974 Speakeasies-(during Prohibition) an illicit liquor store or nightclub. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158855026 2017-03-09 02:25:05 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158855026 Gangsters-Al Capone: The most renowned gangster of the time, considered "Public Enemy Number 1." by the state. At one point in his career Capone made $100 million a year, from booze smuggling, gambling, racketeering, prostitution, and other illegal trade. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158855079 2017-03-09 02:25:41 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158855079 18th amendment-United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158855294 2017-03-09 02:28:08 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158855294 Scopes Trial-formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in May 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158855420 2017-03-09 02:29:30 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158855420 flappers- a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158855562 2017-03-09 02:30:55 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158855562 urbanization-the process of making an area more urban. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158855605 2017-03-09 02:31:27 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158855605 creationism-the belief that the universe and living organisms originate from specific acts of divine creation, as in the biblical account, rather than by natural processes such as evolution. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158855658 2017-03-09 02:31:56 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158855658 temperance movement-typically criticize excessive alcohol consumption, promote complete abstinence (teetotalism), or use its political influence to press the government to enact alcohol laws to regulate the availability of alcohol or even its complete prohibition. hannahhuggins112 https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158855728 2017-03-09 02:32:45 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahhuggins112/qxvv5t90ltt7/wish/158855728