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US vocab
Chap.11 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. Herny Ford | Carmaker introduced a series of methods and ideas that revolutionized productin ,wages,working conditions and daily life |
| 2. mass production | production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery |
| 3. Model T | automotive manufactured by Henry Ford to be affordable on the Mass market |
| 4.scientific management | approach to improving efficiency, in which experts looked at every step of a manufacturing process, trying to find ways to reduce time, effort and expense |
| 5. assembly line | arrangement of equipment and workers in which work passes from operation to operation in a direct line until the product is assembled |
| 6.consumer revolution | Flood of new, affordable goods in the decades after World War I |
| 7.installment buying | Method of purchase in which buyers make a small down-payement and then pays off the rest of the debt in regular monthly payments |
| 8. bull market | periods of rising stock prices |
| 9.buying on margin | system of buying stocks in which a buyer pays a small percentage of the purchase price |
| 10. andrew mellon | Secretary of the Treasury |
| 11.Herbert Hoover | worked with business and labor leaders to achieve voluntary advancements |
| 12.Teapot Dome scandal | Scandal during the Hardal administration in which the secretary of the Interior leased goverment oil reserves to private oilmen in return for bribes |
| 13.modernism | trend taht emphazied science and secular valuies over tradtional ideas about reglion |
| 14 fundamentalism | movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherenceto a set of basic principles |
| 15.Scopes Trail | 1925 trail of a tennessee schoolteacher for teaching Darwin's theroyof evolution |
| 16.Clarence Darrow | the most celebrated defense attorney in America ,travled from his home in Chicago to defend Scopes |
| 17.quota system | arrangement that limted the number of immigrants who could enter the U.S. from spefic countries |
| 18.Ku Klux Klan | Organization that promotes hatered and discrimnation against specific ethnic and rerligious groups |
| 19.Prohibtion | the forbiddding by law of the manufacture transport and sale of alcohol |
| 20.Eighteenth Amendment | constitutional amendment banning the manufacture distribution and the sell of alcohol in the U.S. |
| 21.Volstead Act | law enactyed by congress to enforce the 18th Amendment |
| 22.bootlegger | one who sells illegal alcohol |
| 23. Charlie Chaplin | the most popular slient film star, played the Little Tramp |
| 24.The Jazz Singer | the first movie with sound system synchronized to the action |
| 25.Babe Ruth | Perhaps the leading sports hero was baseball home-run king |
| 26.Charles Lindbergh | the pilotwho crossed the atlantic |
| 27.Flapper | young woman from the 1920s who defgined tradational rulers of conduct and dress |
| 28.Sigmund Freud | a austrian psychologist, also contributed to literary and artistic modernism |
| 29."Lost Generation" | term for American writers of the 1920s marked ny dillusion with the WWI and a search for a sense of meaning |
| 30.F.Scott Fitzgerald | explored the reality of the american dream of wealth,sucess and emtional fulfillment |
| 31.Ernest Hemingway | Fitzgerald's fellow novlist and good friend explored similar themes but in a new idiom |
| 32.Marcus Garvey | the most prominent new African American leader to emerge in the 1920s |
| 33.jazz | American musical from devloped by African Americans,based on improvisation and blending blues,ragtime,and European-based popular music |
| 34.Louis Armstrong | became the official ambassodor of jazz |
| 35.Bessie Smith | "Empermes of the Blues" |
| 36.Harlem Renaissance | period during the 1920s ion which African American Novelists,poets,and artist celebrated their culture |
| 37.Claude Mckay | the most militant of these writers |
| 38.Langston Hughes | probaly the most powerful African American literary voice of his time |
| 39.Zora Neale Hurston | Another powerful voice |
| 40.Calvin Coolidge | Vice president during his vist to his father's Vermont farm he was swore in as president |
| 41.Washington Naval Disarmament Conference | meeting held in 1921and 1922 where world learders agreed to limit construction of warships |
| 42.Kellogg-Brianad Pact | 1928 agreement in which many nations agreed to outlaw war |
| 43. Dawes Plan | agreement in which the U.S. loaned money to Germany ,allowing Germany to reparation payments to Great Britain and France |
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