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Chapter 11 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |