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Chapter 11 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Model T | a reliable car the avg. American could afford |
Scientific Mang. | experts to improve his mass-production techniques |
assembly line | movable ways to move things along a factory line |
consumer revolution | a flood of new affordable goods became available to the public |
installment buying | a consumer would make small down payement and then pay the rest of the debt in regular monthly payements |
Bull market | a period of rising stock prices |
buying on margin | another form of buying on credit |
Teapot Dome scandal | Secratary of the Interior leased govt, oil reserves to private oilmean in return for bribes |
Washington Naval Disarmament Conference | to reduce arms race and size ofnavies of major powers |
Kellogg-Briand Pact | to "outlaw war...as an instrument of national policy" |
Dawes Plan | arranged U.S. loans to Germany |
Modernism | a growing trend to emphasize science and secular values over traditional ideas about religion |
Fundamentalism | emphasized Protestant teachings and the belief that every word in the Bible was truth |
Scopes Trial | Tennessee school teacher for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution |
Quota System | to govern immigration from specific countries |
Ku Klux Klan | to terrotize African Americans who sought to vote |
Prohibition | the banning of alcohol use |
18th Admendment | forbade the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol anywhere in the U.S |
Volstead Act | a law that offically enforced the Admendment |
Bootloggers | sold illegal alcohal to consumers |
The Jazz Singer | the first movie with sound synchronized to the action |
Flapper | a young woman with short skirts and rouged cheeks who had their hair cropped close in a style known as a bob |
Lost Generation | Americans writers of the 1920s because they no longer had faith in the cultural guideposts of the Victorian Era |
Charles Lindbergh | the airline industry |