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ch 7 test
Question | Answer |
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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 |