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Chapter 11 Vocab
Logan McGee US History 10/1/12 Block 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. Model T | automobile manufactured by Henry Ford to be affordable on the mass market |
| 2. 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 |
| 3. Assembly Line | arrangement of equipment and workers in which work passes from operation to operation in direct line until the product is assembled |
| 4. Consumer Revolution | flood of new, affordable goods in the decades after WWI |
| 5. 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 |
| 6. Bull Market | period of rising stock prices |
| 7. Buying On Margin | system of buying stocks in which a buyer pays a small percentage of the purchase price while the broker advances the rest |
| 8. 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 |
| 9. Washington Naval Disarmament Conference | meeting help in 1921 and 1922 where world leaders agree to limit construction of warships |
| 10. Kellogg-Briand Pact | 1928 agreement in which many nations agreed to outlaw war |
| 11. Dawes Plan | agreement in which the US loaned money to Germany, allowing Germany to make reparation payment to Britain and France |
| 12.Modernism | trend that emphasized science and secular values over traditional ideas about religion |
| 13. Fundamentalism | movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles |
| 14. Scopes Trail | 1925 trail of a Tennessee school teacher for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution |
| 15. Quota System | arrangement that limited the number of immigrants who could enter the US from specific countries |
| 16. Prohibition | the forbidding by law of the manufacture, transport, and sale of alcohol |
| 17. Eighteenth Amendment | constitutional amendment banning the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol in the US |
| 18. Volstead Act | law enacted by Congress to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment |
| 19. Bootlegger | one who sells illegal alcohol |
| 20. Flapper | young woman from the 1920s who defied traditional rules of conduct and dress |
| 21. "Lost Generation" | term for American writers of the 1920s marked by disillusion with WWI and a search for a new sense of meaning |
| 22. Jazz | American musical form developed by African Americans, based on improvisations and blending blues, ragtime, and European-based popular music |
| 23. Harlem Renaissance | period during the 1920s in which African American novelists, poets, and artist celebrated their culture |
| 24. The Jazz Singer | the first movie with sound synchronized to the action |
| 25. Mass Production | production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly lines |
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