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Chapter 11 1.2.3.4
Chapter 11 Vocab
Number | Word | Definiation | Stuff |
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1 | Mass Production | Production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly lines. | AustinH16 |
2 | Model-T | Automobile manufactured by Henry Ford to be affordable on the mass market. | austino11 |
3 | 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. | 3-3-13 |
4 | Assembly Line | Arrangement of equipment and workers in which work passes from operation to operation in direct line until the product is made. | 2nd Block |
5 | Consumer Revolution | Flood of new, affordable goods in the decades after WW1. | |
6 | Installment Buying | Method of purchase in 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 leader agreed to limit construction of war ships. | |
11 | Kellogg-Briand Pact | 1928 agreement in which many nations agreed to outlaw war. | |
12 | Dawes Plan | Agreement in which the US 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 of 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 US from specific countries. | |
17 | Ku Klux Klan | Organization that promotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic 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 US. | |
20 | Volstead Act | Law enacted by Congress to enforce the 18th Amendment. | |
21 | Bootlegger | One who sales 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 writer of the 1920s marked by disillusion with WW1 and and a search for a new sens 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. |