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Chapter 11
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Model T | a reliable car the average American can afford. |
| scientific management | experts looked at every step of a manufacturing process. |
| assembly line | arrangement of equipment 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 WW1. |
| installment buying | method of purchase in which buyer makes a small down-payment and then pays off the rest of the debt. |
| bull market | period of rising stock prices. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Washington Naval Disarmament Conference | meeting held in 1921 and 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 | agreement in which U.S. loaned money to Germany so they make reparations 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 a set of basic principals. |
| Scopes Trial | 1925 trial of a TN school teacher for teaching Darwins theory of evolution. |
| quota system | arrangement that limited the number of immigrants who could enter the U.S. from specific countries. |
| Ku Klux Klan | organization that promotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic and religious groups. |
| Prohibition | the forbidding by law of the manufacturing , transport, and sale of alcohol. |
| Eighteenth Amendment | amendment banning the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol in the U.S. |
| Volstead Act | law enacted by congress to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment. |
| bootlegger | one who sells illegal alcohol. |
| The Jazz Singer | the first movie with sound synchronized to the action. |
| flapper | young women from the 1920s who defied traditional rules of conduct and dress. |
| "Lost Generation" | term for American writers of the 1920s marked by disillusion with WW1 and a search for a new sense of meaning. |
| Jazz | American musical form developed by African Americans |
| Harlem Renaissance | period during the 1920s in which African Americans novelist, poets, and artist celebrated their culture. |