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Vocab chpt 11
Term | Definition |
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1. Model T | Automobile manufactured by Henry Ford to be affordable on the mass market |
2. Scientific Management | Approach to improving efficiency, in which experts looked at every step do a manufacturing process, trying to find ways to reduce time, effort, and expense. |
3. Assembly Line | Arrangement of equipment and workers in which work passes from operation to operation in direct lime until the product is assembled |
4. Consumer Revolution | Flood of new, affordable goods in the decades after World War I |
5. Installment Buying | Method of purchase in which buyer makes a small down-payment and the. Pays off the rest of the debt in regular monthly payments |
6. Bull Market | Period of rising stock prices |
7. Buying on Margin | System of buying stocks in which a buyer pays a small percentage of the purchase price while the broker advances the rest |
8. Teapot Dome Scandal | Scandal during the 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 | Agreement in which the United States loaned money to Germany to make reparation payments to Britain and France |
12. Modernism | Trend that emphasized science and secular values over traditional ideas about religion |
13. Fundamentalism | Movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles |
14. Scopes Trial | 1925 trial of a Tennessee school teacher for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution |
15. Quota System | Arrangement that limited the number of immigrants who could enter the United States from specific countries |
16. Klu Klux Klan | Organization that promotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic and religious groups |
17. Prohibition | The forbidding by law of the manufacture, transport, and sale of alcohol |
18. Eighteenth Amendment | Constitutional amendment banning the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol in the United States |
19. Volstead Act | Law enacted by congress to enforce the eighteenth amendment |
20. Bootlegger | One who sells illegal alcohol |
21. The Jazz Singer | The first movie with sound |
22. Flapper | Young woman from the 1920's who defied traditional rules of conduct and dress |
23. "Lost Generation" | Term for American writers of the 1929's marked by disillusion with World War I and a search for a new sense of meaning |
24. Jazz | American musical form developed by African Americans, bases on improvisation and blending blues, ragtime, and European - based popular music |
25. Harlem Renaissance | Period during the 1920's in which African American novelists, poets, and artists celebrated their culture |