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STEELE-SSII CH.11 THE TWENTIES - TERMS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| introduced a series of methods and ideas that revolutionized production, wages, working conditions, and daily life | Henry Ford |
| the rapid manufacture of large numbers of identical products | mass production |
| reliable car the average American could afford | Model T |
| new methods of improving efficiency in mass production | scientific management |
| workers adding to a product to speed up the production (Example: autos 12 hours to 90 minutes | assembly line |
| a flood of new affordable goods becomes available to the public | consumer revolution |
| small down payment and pay off the rest in small monthly amounts | installment buying |
| a period of increasing stock prices | bull market |
| a buyer would pay 10% of the final price; the stock served as collateral | buying on margin |
| Secretary of the Treasury. Mellon's economic policies were to support the advance of business. | Andrew Mellon |
| Secretary of Commerce worked with business and labor leaders to achieve goals | Herbert Hoover |
| a scandal of selling of oil to private people involving the Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall | Teapot Dome Scandal |
| Harding's vice president, then became president; spoke of simple virtures | Calvin Coolidge |
| unsuccessful to reduce the size of armies and navies of major powers | Washington Naval Disarmament conference |
| outlawed war as an instrument of national policy | Kellogg-Briand Act |
| made loans to Germany to pay reparation. Ended because of the stock market crash of 1929 | Dawes Plan |
| the growing trend to emphasize science and secular values over tradional ideas about religion | modernism |
| emphasized protestant teaching and the belief that the bible was literally true | fundamentalism |
| the clash between modernism and the fundamental central issue of the teaching of evolution | Scopes Trial |
| the most celebrated defense attorney who defended John Scopes | Clarence Darrow |
| to govern immigration from specific countries | quota system |
| a hate group that had a revival after WWI | Ku Klux Klan |
| outlawed drinking | prohibition |
| forbade the manufacture, distribution and sale of alcohol | 18th amendment |
| a law that enforced the 18th amendment | Volstead Act |
| sold illegal alcohol to consumers | bootlegger |
| comedian and most popluar film star of the 1920's | Charlie Chaplin |
| the first movie with sound synchronized to the action | The Jazz Singer |
| baseball home-run king | Babe Ruth |
| pilot who made the first transatlantic flight | Charles Lindbergh |
| a young woman with short skirts and rouged cheeks who had her hair cropped in a bob hairstyle | flapper |
| Austrian psychologist who believed that human behavior is driven by unconscious desires | Sigmund Freud |
| American writers of the 1920s who no longer had faith in the cultural guideposts of the Victorian Era | "Lost Generation" |
| a novelist who explored the reality of the American dream of wealth, success, and emotional fulfillment | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| novelist who felt betrayed, not only by the American dream, but also by the literary language itself | Ernest Hemingway |
| most prominent African American leader of the 1920s who concluded that blacks were exploited everywhere | Marcus Garvey |
| a truly indigenous American musical form | jazz |
| a trumpet player known as the unofficial ambassador of jazz | Louis Armstrong |
| jazz vocal soloist | Bessie Smith |
| period during the 1920s in which African American novelists, poets, and artists celebrated their culture | Harlem Renaissance |
| novelist who showed ordinary African Americans struggling for dignity and advancement in the face of discrimination and economic hardships | Claude McKay |
| African American novelist who saw the Harlem Renaissance as a celebration of African American culture and life | Langston Hughes |
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