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Ch 11 Vocab.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mass Production | the rapid manufacture of large numbers of identical products. |
| Model T | a reliable car the average American could afford. |
| Scientific Management | new method of improving efficiency, in which experts looked at every step of manufacturing process to find ways to reduce time, effort, and expense. |
| Assembly Lines | workers adding something to construct the automobile. |
| Consumer Revolution | a flood of new, affordable power supported the consumer revolution. |
| Installment Buying | a consumer would made a small down payment and then pay off the rest of the debt in monthly payments. |
| Bull Market | a period of rising stock prices. |
| Buying On Margin | another form of buying on credit. |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | scandal during the Harding administration in which the Secretary of the Interior leased the government oil reserves to private oilmen in return for bribes. |
| Washington Naval Disagreement Conference | meeting held in 1921 and 1922 where world leaders agreed to limit construction of warships. |
| Kellogg-Briand Act | agreement in which many nations agreed to outlaw war. |
| Dawes Plan | agreement in which the U.S. loaned money to Germany, allowing Germany to make reparation payments to Britain and France. |
| Modernism | the growing trend to emphasize science and secular values over traditional ideas about religion. |
| Fundamentalism | emphasized Protestant teachings and their belief that every word in the Bible was the literal truth. |
| Scopes Trial | trial of a Tennessee schoolteacher for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. |
| Quota System | govern immigration from specific countries. |
| Ku Klux Klan | a group of angry men. |
| Prohibition | the banning of alcohol use. |
| 18th Amendment | forbade manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol anywhere in the U.S. |
| Volstead Act | a law that officially enforced the 18th amendment |
| Bootlegger | sold illegal alcohol to consumers. |
| The Jazz Singer | the first movie with sound synchronized to the action. |
| Flapper | a young women with short skirts and rouged cheeks who had her hair cropped close in style known as a bob. |
| Lost Generation | American writers of the 1920s marked by disillusion with WWI and a search for a new since of meaning. |
| Jazz | American musical form developed by African Americans, based on improvisation and blending blues, ragtime, and European-based popular music. |
| Harlem Renaissance | period in 1920s in which the African Americans novelists, poets, and artists, celebrated their culture. |
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