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Us history chapter11
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly lines | mass production |
| automobile manufactured by Henry Ford to be affordable on the mass market | Model T |
| approach to improving efficiency, in which experts looked at every step at a manufacturing process, trying to find ways to reduce time, effort, and expense | scientific management |
| arrangement of equipment and workers in which work passes from opertion to operation in direct line until the pros=duct is assembled | assembly line |
| flood of new, affordable goods in the decades after WW1 | consumer revolution |
| method of purchase in which buyer makes a small down-payment and then pays off the rest of debt in regular monthly payments | installment buying |
| period of rising stock prices | bull market |
| system of buying stocks in which a buyer pays a small percentage of the purchase price while the broker advances the rest | buying on margin |
| scandal during the Harding administration in which the Secretary of the Interior leased government oil reserves to private oilmen in return for bribes | Teapot Dome Scandal |
| meeting held in 1921 and 1922 wheer world leaders agreed to limit consturction of warships | Washington Naval Disarmament Conference |
| 1928 agreement in which many nations greed to oultaw war | Kellogg-Briand Pact |
| agreement in which the United States loaned money to Germany, allowing Germany to make reparation payments to Britain and France | Dawes Plan |
| trend that emphasized science and secular values over traditional ideas about religion | modernism |
| movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles | fundamentalism |
| 1925 trial of a Tennessee school teacher for teaching Darwin;s theory of evolution | Scopes Trial |
| arrangment that limited the number of immigrants who could enter the United States from specific countries | quota system |
| organization that prmotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic and religious groups | Ku Klux Klan |
| the fprbidding by law of the manufature, transport, and sale of alcohol | prohibition |
| constitutional amendment banning the manufacture, ditribution, and sale of alcohol in the United States | 18th amendment |
| law enacted by Congress to enforce the Eightennth amendment | Volstead Act |
| one who sells illegl alcohol | bootlegger |
| the first movie with sound synchronized to the action | The Jazz Singer |
| American musical form developed by African Americans, based on improvisation and blending blues, ragtime, and European-based popular music | jazz |
| young woman from the 1920s who defied traditional rules of conduct and dress | flapper |
| term for American writers of the 1920s marked by disillusion with WW1 and a search for a new sense of meaning | "Lost Generation" |
| period during the 1920s in which African AMerican novelists, poets, and artists celebrated their culture | Harlem Renaissance |
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