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1920s
Chapter 20 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Henry Ford | |
| Mass production | production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly lines |
| Model T | automobile manufactured by Henry Ford to be affordable on the mass market |
| Scientific management | approach to improving efficiency |
| Assembly line | arrangement of equipment and workers in which work passes from operation to operation in direct line until the product from operation |
| Consumer revolution | flood of new, affordable goods in the decades after WWI |
| Installment buying | method of purchase in which buyer makes a small down payment and then pays off the rest of the debt in regular monthly payments |
| Bull market | period of rising stock prices |
| Buying on margin | system of buying stocks in which a buyer pays a small percentage of the purchase price while the broker advances the price |
| Andrew Mellon | |
| Herbert Hoover | |
| Teapot Dome scandal | scandal during the Harding administration in which the Secretary of the Interior leased government oil reserves to private oilmen in return for bribes |
| Calvin Coolidge | |
| Washington Naval Disarmement Conference | meeting held in 1921 and 1922 where world leaders agreed to limit construction of warships |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | |
| Dawes Plan | agreement in which the United States loaned money to Germany, allowing Germany to make reparation payments to Britain and France |
| Modernism | artistic and literacy movement sparkled by a break with past conventions |
| Fundamentalism | movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles |
| Scopes Trial | 1925 trial of a Tennessee schoolteacher for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution |
| Clarence Darrow | |
| Quota system | arrangement that limited the number of immigrants who could enter the United States from specific countries |
| Ku Klux Klan | organization that promotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic and religious groups |
| Prohibition | the forbidding by law of the manufacture, transport, and sale of alcohol |
| Eighteenth Amendment | constitutional amendment banning the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol in the United States |
| Volstead Act | law enacted by Congress to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment |
| Bootlegger | one who sells illegal alcohol |
| Charlie Chaplin | |
| The Jazz Singer | the first movie with sound synchronized to the action |
| Babe Ruth | |
| Charles Lindbergh | |
| Flapper | young women from the 1920s who defied traditional rules of conduct and dress |
| Sigmund Freud | |
| "Lost Generation" | term for American writers of the 1920s marked by disillusion with WWI and a search for a new sense of meaning |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| Ernest Hemingway | |
| Marcus Garvey | |
| Jazz | American musical form developed by African American, based on improvisation and blending blues, ragtime, and European-based popular music |
| Louis Armstrong | |
| Bessie Smith | |
| Harlem Renaissance | period during the 1920s in which African American novelists. poets, and artists celebrated their culture |
| Claude McKay | |
| Langston Hughes | |
| Zora Neale Hurston |
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