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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. |