ke vocabulary

Question 1

boom

Answer 1

a sudden huge economic growth

Question 2

hire purchase

Answer 2

paying some money each month for a set period of time

Question 3

tariff

Answer 3

tax on goods coming into the country

Question 4

stock market

Answer 4

‘stocks’ (owning a part of a company) are bought and sold

Question 5

speakeasies

Answer 5

places to buy illegal alcohol

Question 6

flappers

Answer 6

names given to young woman in 1920s - went out by themselves and wore knee length dresses

Question 7

communism

Answer 7

state owns everything

Question 8

urbanisation

Answer 8

growth of cites

Question 9

production line

Answer 9

something is put on a conveyer belt and each worker builds it bit by bit

Question 10

laissez faire

Answer 10

government interferes as little as possible

Question 11

chaperone

Answer 11

someone who goes out with woman to make sure she behaves ‘properly’

Question 12

prohibition

Answer 12

time where the production of alcohol was illegal

Question 13

lynching

Answer 13

mob of people kill someone (usually African American0 for alleged crime without giving a fair trial - usually by hanging

Question 14

trade union

Answer 14

organisation that campaigns for better rights and pay for workers