31-40 hsitory woirds vocab

Quota System

Arrangement that limited the number of immigrants who could enter the U.S. from specific countries.

Prohibition

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

Bootlegger

One who sells illegal alcohol.

Flapper

Young woman from the 1920's who defied traditional rules of conduct and dress.

Speculation

Practice of making high-risk investments in hopes of obtaining large profits

Great Depression

Period lasting from 1929 to 1941 in which the U.S. economy faltered and unemployment soared.

Hooverville

Term used to describe makeshift shantytowns set up by homeless people during the Great Depression.

Okies

General term used to describe the Dust Bowl refugees.

Localism

Policy relied on by President Hoover in the early years of the Great Depression whereby local and state governments act as primary agents of economic relief.

Trickledown Economics

Economic theory that holds that money lent to bakes and business will trickle down to consumers.