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ch 7 test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Analysis of a manufacturing process to improve speed and efficiency. | Scientific Management |
| The first person to fly solo and non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean in a plane named The Sprit of St. Louis? | Charles Lindberg |
| He applied mass production techniques to manufacture automobiles; initiated major changes that impacted wages, working conditions, and daily life. | Henry Ford |
| A period of rising prices in the stock market. | Bull Market |
| A group violently opposed to immigrants, Catholics, Jews, & African-American | Ku Klux Klan (KKK) |
| Founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and the “Back to Africa” movement who promoted black pride. (Also loving known as the Jamaican Captain Crunch) | Marcus Garvey |
| The first sports celebrity nicked-named the “Sultan of Swat” and the “Bambino”? | Babe Ruth |
| 1925 “Monkey Trial” which challenged a law against teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution in Tennessee public schools. | Scopes Trial |
| Agreement to outlaw war as an instrument of national policy. | Kellogg-Briand Pact |
| A flood of new, affordable goods. | Consumer Revolution |
| A law that gave the government power to enforce the 18th Amendment. | Volstead Act |
| An exclusively American art form based on improvisation that came to represent the Roaring Twenties | Jazz |
| This was the first talking motion picture? | The Jazz Singer |
| The rapid, large-scale manufacture of identical products | Mass Production |
| Buying on credit by making an initial down payment and the paying the balance over time. | Installment Buying |
| Automobile manufactured by Henry Ford to be affordable to a mass market? | Model T |
| Prolific writer/poet who celebrated African American culture and life. | Langston Hughes |
| . Known as “Empress of the Blues” the most well-known, well-paid artist of her time? | Bessie Smith |
| . Buying stock on credit by paying a percentage up front and borrowing the rest of its cost. | buying on margin |
| A formula to determine how many immigrants could enter the US annually from a given country | Quota System |
| . Harlem Renaissance writers who showed the struggles of ordinary African Americans and called for social and political change? | Claude McKay |
| Folklorist and author of Their Eyes were Watching God. | Zora Neal Hurston |
| A popular silent film star who was known for his physical comedy. | Charlie Chaplin |
| The flowering of African-American arts and literature in the 1920s in New York. | Harlem Renaissance |
| A young woman of the 1920s who rejected traditional values and dress | Flapper |
| Manufacturing technique in which products move past worker, each whom adds one small component | Assembly Line |
| Secretary of Commerce; favored voluntary cooperation between businesses and workers. | Herbert Hoover |
| This trumpet player influenced the development of Jazz. | Louis Armstrong |
| Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall took bribes inn return for leasing federal oil reserves to private companies. | Teapot Dome Scandal |
| Someone who illegally sold alcohol during Prohibition | bootlegger |