Vocabulary
- Mass Media- any of the means of communication, as television or newspapers, that reach very large numbers of people.
- Consumerism- a modern movement for the protection of the consumer against useless, inferior, or dangerous products, misleading advertising, unfair pricing, etc.
- Prosperity- a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in financial respects; good fortune.
- Mass Production- the production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- Immigrant- a person who comes to a foreign country to live there for at least some time
- Anarchist- a person who seeks to overturn by violence all constituted forms and institutions of society and government, with no purpose of establishing any other system of order in the place of that destroyed.
- Communism-a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.
- Race- a group of persons related by common descent or heredity.
- Bolsheviks- A) a member of the more radical majority of the Social Democratic party, 1903–17, advocating immediate and forceful seizure of power by the proletariat. B) (after 1918) a member of the Russian Communist party.
- Fundamentalism-a movement in American Protestantism that arose in the early part of the 20th century in reaction to modernism and that stresses the infallibility of the Bible not only in matters of faith and morals but also as a literal historical record, holding as essential to Christian faith belief in such doctrines as the creation of the world, the virgin birth, physical resurrection, atonement by the sacrificial death of Christ, and the Second Coming.
- Evolution- Biology . change in the gene pool of a population from generation to generation by such processes as mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift.
- Quota- the share or proportional part of a total that is required from, or is due or belongs to, a particular district, state, person, group, etc.
- Speakeasy- a saloon or nightclub selling alcoholic beverages illegally, especially during Prohibition.
- Bootlegger- alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.(usually refers to the person selling/ transporting the alcohol)
- Harlem Renaissance- a renewal and flourishing of black literary and musical culture during the years after World War I in the Harlem section of New York City.
- Jazz- music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality.