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Chapter 11
Chapter 11: The Twenties 1919-1929
| WORD | 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 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, affordable goods in the decades after World War I |
| 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 or 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 United States 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.Eighteeth 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.flapper | young woman from the 1920s who defied traditional rules of conduct and dress |
| 23."Lost Generation" | term for American writers of the 1920s marked by desillusion with World War I and a search for a new sense of meaning |
| 24.The Jazz Singer | the first movie with sound synchronized to the action. |
| 25.jazz | American musical form developed by African Americans, based on improvisation and blending blues, ragtime, and European-based popular music |
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