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chapter 11
Term | Definition |
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Model T | automobile manufactured by Henry Ford to be affordable on the mass market. |
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. |
Assembly line | arrangement of equiptment and workers in which work passes from operation to operation in direct line until the product is assembled. |
Consumer revolution | Flood of new, affordable goods in the decades after world war 1. |
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 |
bull market | period of rising stock prices |
buying on margin | system of buying stocks in which buyer pays a small percentage of the purchase price while the broker advances the rest. |
Teapot Dome Scnadal | scandal during the harding administration in which the Secretary of the interior leased government oil reserves to private oilmen in return for bribes |
Washington Naval Disarmament Conference | meeting held in 1921 & 1922 where world leaders agreed to limit construction of warships |
Kellogg-Briand Pact | 1928 agreement in which many nations agreed to outlaw war |
Dawes Plan | agreeement in which the united states loaned money to germany allowing germany to make reparation payments to britain and france |
Modernism | trend that emphasized science and secular values over traditional ideas about religion |
Fundamentalism | movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to set of basic principals |
Scopes Trial | 1925 trial of a Tennessee school teacher for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution |
Quota System | arrangement that limited the number of immigrants who could enter the united states from specific countries. |
Ku Klux Klan | organization that promotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic and religious groups |
Prohibition | |
18th Admendment | constitutional amendment banning the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol in the united states. |
Volstead Act | law enacting by congress to enforce the 18th amendment |
Bootlegger | one who sells illegal alcohol |
The Jazz Singer | the first movie with sound synchronized to the action |
Flapper | young women from the 1920's who defied traditional rules of conduct and dress |
Jazz | music preformed by African Americanized on inprohibition and blending |
"Lost Generation" | term for american writers of the 1920s marked by disillusion with world war 1 and a search for a new sense of meaning |
harlem renaissance period during the 1920s in which african american artists |