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U.S. History
Topic 7 "The Roaring 20s"
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Henry Ford | Introduced a series of methods and ideas that revolutionized production, wages, and working conditions. |
| Mass Production | The rapid manufacturing of large numbers of identical products |
| Model T | The first reliable and affordable car that the average American could enjoy. |
| Assembly line | Production method in which someone specialized in a specific phase of a products manufacturing |
| Consumer revolution | A time period in which a flood of new and affordable goods became available to the public. |
| Installment buying | Method in which a consumer can make a small down payment and then pay off the rest of the debt in regular monthly payments. |
| Bull Market | A period of rising stock prices and stock market involvement in the United States. |
| Washington Naval Disarmament Conference | Meeting held in 1921 and 1922 where world leaders agreed to limit the construction of warships |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | 1928 agreement in which many nations agreed to outlaw war as a solution to international conflict |
| Dawes Plan | Agreement in which the United States loaned money to Germany allowing Germany to pay off war debt it owed to France and Great Britain |
| Modernism | Artistic and literary movement sparked by a break with past conventions |
| Fundamentalism | Movement or attitude stressing strict adherence to the bible and religious teachings as an answer to every important moral and scientific question. |
| Scopes Trial | 1925 trial of a Tennessee schoolteacher for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution |
| Quota System | Arrangement that limited the number of immigrants that could enter the United States from specific countries. |
| Ku Klux Klan | Organization that promotes hatred and violence against specific ethnic and religious groups |
| Prohibition | The forbidding by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol |
| Eighteenth Amendment | Constitutional amendment banning the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcohol in the United States |
| Bootlegger | One who sold illegal alcohol during the "prohibition" time period |
| Flapper | A young women in the 1920s who defied traditional rules of conduct and dress |
| "Lost Generation" | Term for ameircan writers of the 1920s marked by disillusion with World War I and a search for a new sense of meaning in the world |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Writer who explored the reality of the American dream of wealth, success, and emotional fulfillment. |
| Harlem Renaissance | Time period during the 1920s in which African American novelists, poets, and artists celebrated their culture. |
| Marcus Garvey | Prominent African American leader during the 1920s that promoted black unity and universal black nationalism. Advocated the separation of the races. |
| Langston Hughes | The most powerful African American literary voice of his time who promoted the diversity of everyday American American life. |
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