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Chapter 11 Vocab.
Question | Answer |
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Mass Production | Production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly line. |
Model T | Automobile manufactured by Henry Ford to be affordable on the mass market. |
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. |
Assembly Line | Arrangements of equipment and workers in which work passes from operation to operation in direct line until the product is assembled. |
Consumer Revoloution | Flood of new, affordable goods in the decades after World War 1. |
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 stock in which a buyer pays a small percentage of the purchase price while the broker advance the rest. |
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 | In 1928 agreement in which many nations agreed to outlaw war. |
Dawes Plan | Agreement in which the United States loan money to Germany, allowing Germany to make reparations to Britain and France |
Modernism | Trend that emphasized science and secular values over traditional ideas about religion. |
Fundamentalism | Movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to set a set of basic principles. |
Scopes Trial | 1925 trial of a Tennessee schoolteacher teaching the Darwin's theory of evolution. |
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 Untied States. |
Volstead Act | Law enacted by Congress to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment. |
Bootlegger | One who sells illegal alcohol. |
Flapper | Young woman from the 1920s who defined traditional rules of conduct and dress. |
"Lost Generation" | Term for American writers of the 1920s marked by disillusion with World War 1 and a search for a new sense of meaning. |
Jazz | American musical form developed by African Americans, based on improvisation and blending blues, ragtime, and European-based popular music. |
Harlem Renaissance | Period during the 1920s in which African Americans novelists. poets, and artist celebrated their culture. |