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Chapter 11 20s
Chapter 11
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1. Model T | reliable car the average American could afford |
| 2. scientific management | improved efficiency , in which experts looked at every step of the manufacturing process, trying to find ways to reduce time, effort, and expense |
| 3. assembly line | arrangement in which workers passed operation to operation in a direct line until the product is assembled |
| 4. consumer revolution | affordable goods became available to the public |
| 5. installment buying | consumer would make a small down payment and then pay off the rest of the debt in a monthly payment |
| 6. bull marcket | period of rising stock prices |
| 7. buying on margin | form of buying on credit |
| 8. Teapot Dome scandel | scandal during Harding administration in which the Secretary of the Interior leased government oil reserves to private oilmen in return for bribes |
| 9. Washington Naval Disarmament Conference | meeting held in 1921 and 1922 where world leaders agreed to limit construction of warships |
| 10. Kellogg-Briand Pact | 1928 agreement in which many nations agreed to outlaw war |
| 11. Dawes Plan | arranged U.S. loans to Germany |
| 12.modernism | emphasize science and secular values over traditional ideas about religion |
| 13. fundamentalism | movement stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles |
| 14. Scopes Trial | trial of a TN school teacher for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution |
| 15. quota system | arrangement that limited the number of immigrants who could enter the U.S. from specific countries |
| 16. Klu Klux Klan | organization that promotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic and religious groups |
| 17.Prohibition | forbidding by law of the manufacture, transport, and sale of alcohol |
| 18. Eighteenth Amendment | forbid the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol anywhere in the U.S. |
| 19. Volstead Act | law that officially enforced the amendment |
| 20. Bootlegger | sold illegal alcohol to consumers |
| 21. The Jazz Singer | the first movie with sound synchronized to the action |
| 22. flapper | young woman who defied traditional rules of conduct and dress |
| 23. Lost Generation | American writers who were marked by disillusion with WWI and search for new sense of meaning |
| 24. jazz | musical form based on improvisation (developed by African Americans) |
| 25. Harlem Renaissance | African American novelists, poets, and artists celebrated their culture |
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