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Alphabet Agencies
Organisations established under the New Deal
American Dream
The belief that everyone has the right to be successful
Anarchist
A political person who doesn’t believe in any type of government
Black nationalists
African-Americans who were prepared to establish a separate African-American state
Black Panthers
A black nationalist group set up in the 1960s
Blacklisted
Barred
Bonus marcher
Former soldier who demanded his war pension sooner than it was due
Bootlegger
A smuggler of alcohol during prohibition
Boycott
A form of protest where you refuse to buy something or use a service
Charleston
A popular dance from the 1920s with very fast hand and body movements
Cold War
A period of tension between the capitalist USA and the Communist USSR
Consumer items
Goods that are sold direct to ordinary people for their home, for example TVs (as opposed to goods sold to other businesses)
CORE
Congress of Racial Equality. Set up in 1942 by James Farmer. Led the Freedom Rides
Corruption
Dishonest conduct by those in power
Credit
A kind of loan
Dust Bowl
An environmental disaster of the 1930s. Over-farming and drought made land infertile
Enforcement officers
Government agents who had to stop the transport and sale of alcohol under prohibition
Fireside chats
Roosevelt’s radio broadcasts to the nation. His way of reassuring the American public
Flapper
A young middle-class woman who drank, smoked and cut her hair short
Freedom Rides
Civil Rights campaigners took long bus rides to show that public transport was still segregated in the early 1960s
Hire purchase
Paying in instalments
Hooverville
A shanty town for the homeless in US cities during the Great Depression
Hundred days
The first 100 days of Roosevelt’s presidency when the New Deal was put in place
Ku Klux Klan
A white supremacist organisation that was popular in the southern states of the USA
Laissez-faire
To leave something alone. In business, the government would not interfere to allow profits to increase
Lend Lease
Arrangement for USA to supply weapons to Europe during the Second World War but not expect payment until after the war was over
Lynched
Killed by a mob without trial
Mass production
Making items quickly and on a big scale so making them cheaper
McCarthyism
To make accusations of treason (for example communism) without full evidence
Medicare and Medicaid
Kennedy’s policies to improve health care for poor people in the USA
MIA
Montgomery Improvement Association. Founded in 1955 and led by Martin Luther King, it organised the Bus Boycotts in the same year
Migrated
Moving for jobs
Model T
The first mass produced car. Made by Henry Ford in 1908
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Nation of Islam
A black nationalist group led by Malcolm X
National Organization of Women
Campaigned for gender equality
New Deal
Roosevelt’s policies to improve to relieve poverty, reduce unemployment and bring economic recovery
Non-violent direct action
The style of protest preferred by Martin Luther King
Production line
A new way of making good developed by Henry Ford
Quota
A limited or fixed number of people or things
Red Scare
The fear of Communism in the 1920s
Repeal
To remove or reverse a law
Roe vs Wade
A court case that ended with abortion being legal in the first three months of pregnancy
SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Set up in 1957 by Martin Luther King, it took part in many Civil Rights protests
Sit-in
A protest of sitting at lunch counters to end segregated seating
SNCC
Student Non-Violent Coordination Committee set up in 1960. It led the sit-in protests
Speakeasy
Illegal bar during prohibition
Speculator
An investor of money for the hope of gain, but also risking loss
Stock market
The buying and selling of shares in a company
Tariff
A type of tax charged on imports
Teenager
A new term used in the late 1950s for the rebellious youth
Temperance Movement
A Christian group that campaigned for Prohibition
Unconstitutional
Breaking the highest laws of America
Volstead Act (1919)
The law that started prohibition in 1920
Voting rights
The legal protections that allow people to vote
Wall Street Crash
The 1929 slump on the stock market in New York. People lost a lot of money and it led to the Great Depression of the 1930s
War Bonds
People bought bonds from the government boosting the government budget for war
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