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ch 14 vocab valles
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| scientific management | theory promoted by Frederick W Taylor, held that every kind of work could be broken into a series of smaller tasks with set raates of production |
| assemblyline | production system created by Henry Ford, to make goods faste by moving parts on a conveyor belt past workers |
| installment plan | a way of purchasing goods in which consumers pay for goods in small increments over time |
| planned obsolescence | pratcice of manufacturing products that are designed to go out of style |
| Henry Ford | used the assembly line, paid good wages to his workers, but stressed "American values", opposed workers use of alcohol or tobacco even in their homes |
| model T | low-cost popular automobile developed by Henry Ford |
| flappers | young women of the 1920's who challenged social traditions with their dress and behavior |
| Volstead Act | federal law that enforced the Eighteentgh Amendment |
| Al Capone | Chicago gangster who ruled Chicago from bootlegging, an example of how prohibition allowed organized crime to prosper |
| Eliot Ness | leader of the "Untouchables", and bringiong down Al Capone |
| Twenty-first Amendment | constitutional amendment that ended prohibition by repealing the Eightenth Amendment |
| Charles Lindberg | first to fly solo from New York to Paris, popular celebrity of the `920's |
| Scopes Trial | high school science teacher tried for teaching evolution |
| jazz | music combining a variety of musical styles; origninated with African-Americans in New Orleans. |
| blues | music that grew out of slave music and religious spirituals, where the notes matche the mood of the lyrics |
| Louis Armstrong | popular jazz musician "Ambassador of Jazz" |
| Langston Hughes | African-American poet whose works protrayed a sense of hope and pride |
| Harlem Renaissance | period of great African-American artistic works, originated in New York |
| lost generation | group of writes whose works reflected the horros of WWI, and criticized consumerism and post war society |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | lost generation author, "The Great Gatsby", a shaken faith of post WWI society |
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