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Chapter 11 vocab
chapter 11 vocab US
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Model T | automobile manufactured by henry ford to be affordable on the mass market. |
| scientific management | improach to improving effiency, in which experts looked at every step of a manufacturing process, trying to find ways to reduce time, effort, and expense. |
| assembly lines | a line of equipment and workers used to build something. |
| consumer revolution | in which a flood of new, afforable goods became available to the public. |
| installment buying | in which a consumer would make a small down payment and then pay off the rest of the debt in regular monthly payments. |
| bull market | a period of rising stock prices |
| buying on margin | another form of buying on credit |
| 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. |
| Washington Naval Disarmament Conference | meeting held in 1921 and 1922 where world leaders agreed to limit construction of warships. |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | 1928 agreement in which many nations agreed to outlaw war |
| Dawes Plan | agreement in which the US loaned money to Germany, allowing them to make reparation payments to Britain and France |
| modernism | the growing trend to emphasize science and secular values over traditional ideas about religion. |
| fundamentalism | emphasized Protestant teachings and the belief that every word in the Bible was literal truth. |
| Scopes Trial | 1925 trial of a Tennessee school teacher for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. |
| quota system | arrangement that limited the number of immigrants who could enter the US from specific countries. |
| Ku Klux Klan | organization that promotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic and religious groups. |
| Prohibition | the banning of alcohol use. |
| Volstead Act | a law that officially enforced the 18th amendment |
| Bootleggers | sold illegal alcohol to consumers. |
| "The Jazz Singer" | the first movie with sound synchronized to the action. |
| flapper | young women from the 1920's who defied traditional rules of conduct and dress. |
| "Lost Generation" | term for american writers of the 1920's marked by disillusion with WWI and a search for a new sense of meaning. |
| jazz | a musical form or genre based on improvisation. |
| Harlem Renaissance | period during the 1920's in which AA novelists, poets, and artists celebrated their culture. |
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