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Vocabulary
Chapter 11
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. mass production | producing large amounts of a product rapidly |
| 2. Model T | reliable car that the average aamerican could afford |
| 3. Scientific Management | Used by Ford and he wanted to find the easiest and most effective way to do a task |
| 4. Assembly Line | whe multiple people each with a separate job put something together fast and efficently |
| 5. Consumer Revolution | when new affordable goods became available to the public |
| 6. Installment Buying | when a person buys an item and eventually pays back the rest |
| 7. Bull Market | rising stock prices |
| 8. Buying on Margin | when a person buys part of a stock and doesn't have to pay the ufront price |
| 9. Teapot Dome Scandle | scandle during Harding administration where the Secretary of the Interior leased government oil reserves to private oilmen in return for bribes |
| 10. Washington Naval Disarmament Conference | meeting in 1921 and 1922 when world leaders agreed to limit construction of war ships |
| 11. Kellogg-Brand Pact | 1928 agreemet wen man nations agreed to outlaw war |
| 12. Dawes Plan | arranged US loans to Germany for war debt |
| 13. Modernism | secular values rather than traditional ideas |
| 14. Fundamentalism | emphasized protest techniques and said that every single word in the bible is true |
| 15. Scopes Trial | the trial when fundamentalism and modernism clashed |
| 16. Quota System | said certain countries would govern immigration |
| 17. Ku Klux Klan | organization that promoted hatred and discrimination of certain ethnic groups |
| 18. Prohibition | banning of alchol use |
| 19. 18th amendment | forbid the manufactur, selling, and distribution of alchol |
| 20. Volstead Act | law that enforced the 18th amendment |
| 21. bootlegger | a person who sold illegal alchol |
| 22. The Jazz Singer | first movie with sound synchronized with action |
| 23. Flapper | women in the 920's that defied tradition |
| 24. "Lost Gfeneration" | American writers who are marked by disillusion with WW1 nd have to search for a newsense of meaning |
| 25. Jazz | music formed by African Americans that blended blues, ragtime, and European-baised popular music |
| 26. Harlem Renaissance | period in the 1920's when African American novilists, poets, and artists celebrated their culture |
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