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Red Scare

A term for anti-communist hysteria that swept the United States after World War I and again after World War II, and led to government raids, deportation of radicals, and a suppression of civil liberties.

Palmer Raids

A series of raids ordered by the Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920, when federal agents arrested 6,000 citizens in Aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.

Great Migration

The migration of 6 million African Americans from the south to the north and west between 1916 and 1970.

Red Summer

Anti black riots in the summer and fall of 1919 by white Americans in more than two dozen cities leading to hundreds of deaths.

American Plan

Strategy by American Business in the 1920s to keep workplaces free of unions. ( which included refusing to negotiate with trade unions and requiring workers to sign contracts pledging not to join a union)

Welfare capitalism

A system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees' well being.

Dollar diplomacy

The use of American foreign policy to stabilize the economies of foreign nations, especially in the Caribbean and South America, in order to benefit American Commercial interests, between World War 1 and the early 1930s.

Teapot Dome

Nickname for scandal in which interior secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land inTeapot Dome, Wyoming.

Consumer credit

Forms of borrowing, such as auto loans and installment plans, that flourished in the 1920s and worsened the crash that led to the Great Depression.

Hollywood

The city in Southern California that became synonymous with the American movie industry in the 1920s.

Flapper

A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of beauty and dress, freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions, dancing to jazz, and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.