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1920s
Chapter 20 vocab
Question | Answer |
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Henry Ford | |
Mass production | production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly lines |
Model T | automobile manufactured by Henry Ford to be affordable on the mass market |
Scientific management | approach to improving efficiency |
Assembly line | arrangement of equipment and workers in which work passes from operation to operation in direct line until the product from operation |
Consumer revolution | flood of new, affordable goods in the decades after WWI |
Installment buying | method of purchase in which buyer makes a small down payment and then pays off the rest of the debt in regular monthly payments |
Bull market | period of rising stock prices |
Buying on margin | system of buying stocks in which a buyer pays a small percentage of the purchase price while the broker advances the price |
Andrew Mellon | |
Herbert Hoover | |
Teapot Dome scandal | scandal during the Harding administration in which the Secretary of the Interior leased government oil reserves to private oilmen in return for bribes |
Calvin Coolidge | |
Washington Naval Disarmement Conference | meeting held in 1921 and 1922 where world leaders agreed to limit construction of warships |
Kellogg-Briand Pact | |
Dawes Plan | agreement in which the United States loaned money to Germany, allowing Germany to make reparation payments to Britain and France |
Modernism | artistic and literacy movement sparkled by a break with past conventions |
Fundamentalism | movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles |
Scopes Trial | 1925 trial of a Tennessee schoolteacher for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution |
Clarence Darrow | |
Quota system | arrangement that limited the number of immigrants who could enter the United States from specific countries |
Ku Klux Klan | organization that promotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic and religious groups |
Prohibition | the forbidding by law of the manufacture, transport, and sale of alcohol |
Eighteenth Amendment | constitutional amendment banning the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol in the United States |
Volstead Act | law enacted by Congress to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment |
Bootlegger | one who sells illegal alcohol |
Charlie Chaplin | |
The Jazz Singer | the first movie with sound synchronized to the action |
Babe Ruth | |
Charles Lindbergh | |
Flapper | young women from the 1920s who defied traditional rules of conduct and dress |
Sigmund Freud | |
"Lost Generation" | term for American writers of the 1920s marked by disillusion with WWI and a search for a new sense of meaning |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
Ernest Hemingway | |
Marcus Garvey | |
Jazz | American musical form developed by African American, based on improvisation and blending blues, ragtime, and European-based popular music |
Louis Armstrong | |
Bessie Smith | |
Harlem Renaissance | period during the 1920s in which African American novelists. poets, and artists celebrated their culture |
Claude McKay | |
Langston Hughes | |
Zora Neale Hurston |