Vocab Between Wars

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  1. 1. Renaissance A time when many African Americans moved near Harlem and created an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion.
  2. 6. The central banking system of the United States of America. It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, after a series of financial panics led to the desire for central control of the monetary system in order to alleviate financial crises.
  3. 7. An American composer, composition teacher, and writer. He was called "the dean of American Composers"
  4. 8. An American politician who served as the 32nd president. He helped people during the Great Depression.
  5. 12. The worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939.
  6. 13. A poet that formed fis career in Harlem, New York.
  7. 14. The shares into which ownership of the corporation is divided. A single share of the stock represents fractional ownership of the corporation in proportion to the total number of shares.
  8. 16. A set of programs enacted by Roosevelt that helped recover from the Great Depression.
  9. 17. When a person above a certain age doesn't have an occupation.
  10. 18. An American composer that led a jazz orchestra for more than six decades.
  11. 20. An African American painter known for his portrayal of African American life.
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  1. 2. An American composer that was very influential in jazz.
  2. 3. The movement of 6 million African Americans out of rural areas to urban cities.
  3. 4. An Artist best known of her paintings of enlarged flowers.
  4. 5. An American composer who composed classical and popular genres.
  5. 9. Engagement in business transactions involving considering risk, but offering the chance of large gains.
  6. 10. An author that won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception".
  7. 11. A tax on imports and exports and exports between sovereign states.
  8. 15. An American blues singer that was the most popular female blue singer in the 1920's and 30's.
  9. 19. The aggregation of buyers and sellers of stocks, which represent ownership claims on businesses.