click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Chapter 11 Vocab
Chapter 11 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
---|---|
1) Mass Production- | Production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly lines. |
2) Model T- | Automobile manufactured by Henry Ford to be affordable on the mass market. |
3) Scientific Management- | Approach to improving efficiency, in which experts look at every step of the 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, affordable goods in the decades after World War I. |
6) Installment buying- | Method of purchase in which a 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 a 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 the United States loaned money to Germany, allowing Germany to make reparation payments to Britain and France. |
13) Modernism- | Trend that emphasized science and secular values over traditional ideas about religion. |
14) Fundamentalism- | Movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles. |
15) Scopes Trial- | 1925 trial 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 U.S. from specific countries. |
17) Ku Klux Klan- | organization that promotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic groups and religious groups. |
18) Prohibition- | The forbidding by law of the manufacture, transport, and sale of alcohol. |
19) Eighteenth Amendment- | Constitutional amendment banning the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol in the United States. |
20) Volstead Act- | Law enacted by Congress to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment. |
21) Bootlegger- | One who sells illegal alcohol. |
22) The Jazz Singer- | The first movie with sound synchronized to the 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 WWI and a search for a 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 American novelists, poets, and artists celebrated their culture. |