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Ch 11 Vocab Terms
The Twenties 1919-1929
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1. Mass Production | Production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly lines |
| 2. Model T | Automoblie manufactured by Henry Ford to be afforable on the mass market |
| 3. Scientifici Management | Approach to improving efficieny, in which experts looked at every step of a manufacturing process, trying to find ways to reduce time, effort, and expense |
| 4. Assembly Line | Arrangement of equipment and workers in which work passes from operation to operation in direct line until the product is assembled |
| 5. Consumer Revolution | Flood of new, afforadable goods in the decades after World War 1 |
| 6. 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 |
| 7. Bull Market | Period of rising stock prices |
| 8. Buying on Margin | System of buying stocks in which buyer pays a small percentage of the purchase price while the broker advances the rest |
| 9. 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 |
| 10. Washington Naval Disarmament Conference | Meeting held in 1921 and 1922 where world leaders agreed to limit construction of warships |
| 11. Kellogg-Briand Pact | 1928 agreement in which many nations agreed to outlaw war |
| 12. Dawes Plan | Agreement in which United States loaned money to Germany, allowing Germany to make reparation payments to Britain and France |
| 13. Modernism | Trent that emphasized science and secular values over traditional ideas about religion |
| 14. Fundamentalism | Movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to set a basic principles |
| 15. Scopes trail | 1925 trail of a Tennessee school teacher for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution |
| 16. Quota System | Arrangement that limited the number of immigrants who could enter the United States from specific countries |
| 17. Ku Klux Klan | Organization that promotes hatred and discrimination agaisnt specific eithnic and religious groups |
| 18. Prohibition | The forbidding by law of the manufacture, transport, and sale of alchol |
| 19. Eighteenth Amendment | Constitutional amendment banning the manufactture, distribution, and sale of alcohol in the United States |
| 20. Volstead Act | Law enacted by Congress to enforce the Eighteenth Amendemt |
| 21.Bootlegger | One who sells illegal alcohol |
| 22. The Jazz Singer | First movie with sound synchronzied action |
| 23. Flapper | Young woman from the 1920s who defied traditional rules of conduct and dress |
| 24. "Lost Generation" | Term for American writers of the 1920s marked by disillusion with World War I and a search for new sense of meaning |
| 25. Jazz | American musical form developed by African Americans, based on improvisation and blending blues, ragtime, and European-based popular music |
| 26. Harlem Renaissance | Period during the 1920s in which African Americans novelists, poets, and artists celebrated their culture |
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