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Ch 11 Vocabulary
Chapter 11 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Model T | Affordable automobile by Henry Ford |
| 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 equipment and workers in which work passes from operation in direct line until assembled. |
| Consumer Revolution | Flood of good news in WW1. |
| Installment Buying | Buyer makes small down-payment and then pays off rest in monthly payments. |
| Bull Market | Period of risking stalk prices. |
| Buying On Margin | System buying stocks when buyer pays % of purchase and broker advances the rest. |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | During Harding administration which the secretary of the interior leased gov't oil reserves to private oilmen in return for bribes. |
| Washington Naval Disarmament Conference | Meeting in 1921 and 1922 where world was leaders agreed to limit const. of wars. |
| Kellog-Briand Pact | 1928 agreement in which many nations agreed to outlaw war. |
| Dawes Plan | Agreement which U.S. loaned money to Germany, allowing them to make reparation payments to Britain and France. |
| Modernism | Treat 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 principles. |
| Scopes Trial | 1925 trail of a TN school-teacher for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. |
| Quota System | A system in place from 1795 to 1815 for manning British naval ships. |
| KKK | Is the name of three distinct past and present far-right organizations in the U.S., which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically expressed through terrorism. |
| Prohibition | The legal act of prohibiting the manufacture, storage, transportation and sale of alcohol and alcoholic beverages. |
| 18th Amendment | Effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport and sale of alcohol illegal. |
| Volstead Act | Was enacted to carry out the intent of the Eighteenth Amendment, which established prohibition in the U.S.. |
| Bootlegger | Is the illegal business of transporting alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law. |
| The Jazz Singer | 1927 American musical film. |
| Flapper | A "new breed" of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. |
| "Lost Generation" | The generation that came of age during WW1. |
| Jazz | A music genre that originated at the beginning of the 20th century, arguably earlier, within the African-American communities of the Southern U.S.. |
| Harlem Renaissance | A cultural movement that spanned the 1920s. |
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