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vocabulary 2.22.11
chapter 11 vocab.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. Henry Ford: | car maker who introduced a series of methods and ideas that revolutionalized production, wages, working conditions, and daily life. |
| 2. mass production: | the rapid manufacture of large numbers of identical products. |
| 3. model T: | a reliable car the average American could afford. |
| 4. scientific management : | a new method of improving efficiency . |
| 5. assembly line : | arrangement of equipment and workers in which work passes from operation to opperation in direct line untel the product is assembled. |
| 6.consumer revolution : | flood of new , affordable goods in the decades after world war 1 |
| 7. 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 |
| 8.bull market: | period of rising stock prices. |
| 9.buying on margin: | systems of buying stocks in which a buyer pays a small percentage of the purchase price while the broker advances the rest. |
| 10.Andrew Mellon: | secretary of treasury. |
| 11.Herbert Hoover: | secretary of commerce |
| 12.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. |
| 13.Calvin Coolidge: | vice president. |
| 14.Washington Naval disarmament conference: | meeting held in 1921 and 1922 where world leaders agreed to limit construction of warships. |
| 15. Kellog-Briand Pact: | 1928 agreement in which many nations agreed to out law war. |
| 16.Dawes plan: | agreement in which the united states loaned money to Germany to make reparation payments to Britain and France. |
| 17.modernism: | trend that emphasized science and secular values over traditional ideas about religion. |
| 18.fundamentalism: | movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherance to a set of basic principles . |
| 19.scopes trial: | 1925 trial of Tennessee school-teacher teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. |
| 20.Clarence Darrow: | the most celebrated defense attorney in America, traveled from his home in Chicago to defend Scopes. |
| 21.quota system: | arrangement that limited the number of immigrants who could enter the united states from specific countries. |
| 22.Ku Klux Klan: | organization that promotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnics and religion groups. |
| 23.prohibition: | the forbidding by law of the manufacture ,transport,and sale of alcohol. |
| 24.eighteenth amendment: | constitutional amendment banning the manufacture , distribution ,and sale of alcohol in the united states. |
| 25.Volstead act: | law enacted by congress to enforce the eighteenth amendment. |
| 26.bootlegger: | one who sells illegal alcohol. |
| 27.Charlie Chaplin: | the most popular silent film star. |
| 28.The Jazz Singer: | the first movie with sound synchronized to the action. |
| 29.babe ruth: | baseball home run king. |
| 30.Charles Lindbergh: | aviator. |
| 31.flapper: | young woman from the 1920s who defied traditional rules of conduct and dress. |
| 32.Sigmund Freud: | Austrian psychologist. |
| 33.''lost generation'': | term for American writers of the 1920s marked by disillusion with WWI and search for a new sense of meaning. |
| 34.F.Scott Fitzgerald: | novelist who explored the reality of the American dream of wealth , success,and emotional fulfillment. |
| 35.Ernest Hemingway: | explored similar themes but in a new idiom. |
| 36.Marcus Garvey: | new African American leader to emerge in the 1920s. |
| 37.jazz: | a musical form based on improvisation. |
| 38.Lois Armstrong: | trumpet player who became the unofficial ambassador of jazz. |
| 39.Bessie Smith: | vocal soloist ; "empress of the blues" |
| 40.Harlem Renaissance: | period during the 1920s in which African American novelists,poets,and artists celebrated their culture. |
| 41.Claude McKay: | Jamaican immigrant. |
| 42.Langston Hughes: | the most powerful African American literary voice in time. |
| 43.Zora Neale Hurston: | traveled the rural back roads of Florida,collecting folk tales in books. |
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