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chapter11
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1. scientific management | a relatively new method of improving efficiency |
| 2.model T | a reliable car that the average Americans could buy afford |
| 3.assembly line | were at each step a worker added something to put on the car |
| 4.consumer revolution | "A FLOOD OF NEW"affordable goods came to the public |
| 5. installment buying | a consumer would make a small down payment then pay the rest later (monthly) |
| 6. bull market | a period of rising stock prices |
| 7.buying on margin | another form of buying on credit |
| 8. teapot dome scandal | a 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 disarment conference | a conference that raised the hopes that nations could solve disagreement without war |
| 10. Kelloggg briand pact | secretary of state frank b. Kellogg and foreign minister Aristide briand drew up a treaty to out law war as an instrument of national policy |
| 11.dawes plan | arranged u.s. loans to germany |
| 12.modernism | emphasizing science and secular values over traditional ideas about religon |
| 13.fundalmetalism | emphasized protestant teachings and the beliefs that every word in the bible was the literal truth |
| 14.scopes trial | were modernism and fundamentalism clashed 1925 |
| 15.quota sytem | to govern immigration from specific countries |
| 16. ku klux klan | kkk hated blacks and any body who supported them believed in lenching |
| 17.prohibiton | the banning of alcohol |
| 18. 18th amendment | forbade the manufacture, distribution,and sale of alcohol anywhere in the u.s. |
| 19.Volstead act | a law that officially enforced the amendment |
| 20. bootlegger | sold illegal alcohol to consumers |
| 21.the jazz singer | first movie with synchronized sound to the action |
| 22. flapper | a young woman from the 1920s who defied traditional rules of conduct and dress |
| 23.lost generation | american writers who no longer had faith in the cultural guideposts of the Victorian era of the 1920s |
| 24. jazz | is a musical form based on improvisin |
| 25. Harlem renissance | the flowering of African american culture |
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