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Brittany Hamlin 3rd Chp 11 vocab 2/22/11
1.)Henry Ford made cars affordable also used assembly line
2.)Mass protection rapid manufacture of large numbers of identical products
3.)Model T reliable car the average American could afford
4.)Scientific management improving efficiency in which experts looked at every step of a manufacturing process trying to find ways to reduce time
5.)Assembly lines putting something together not all at once but in a line but in a fast pace
6.)Consumer revolution a flood of new
7.)Installment buying in which a consumer would make a small down payment and then pay off the rest of the debt in regular monthly payments
8.)Bull market a period of rising stock prices
9.)Buying on margin buying stock, only paying a small percentage of the purchase price
10.)Andrew Mellon secretary of the treasury
11.)Herbert Hoover worked with business and labor leaders to achieve voluntary advancements
12.)Teapot Dome scandal naval oil reserves were used for personal gain
13.)Calvin Coolidge ended strike by calling the national guard
14.) Washington Naval Disarmament Conference meeting held in 1921 and 1922 where world leaders agreed to limit construction of warships
15.)Kellogg-Briand pact agreement in which many nations agreed to outlaw war
16.)Dawes Plan agreement in which the United States loaned money to Germany, allowing Germany to make reparation payments to Britain and France
17.)Modernism the growing trend to emphasize science and secular values over traditional ideas about religion
18.)Fundamentalism emphasized protestant teachings and belief that every word in the bible was literal truth
19.) Scopes Trial trial of a TN school teacher for teaching Darwin's Theory of evolution
20.)Clarence Darrow most celebrated defense attorney in America
21.)Quota system arrangement that limited the number of immigrants who could enter the United States from specific countries
22.)Ku Klux Klan targeted Jews,Catholics, and immigrants and African Americans . group of angry men
23.)Eighteenth Amendment banning the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol in the United States
24.)Volstead Act a law that officially enforced the amendment
25.)Bootleggers sold illegal alcohol to consumers
26.)Charlie Chaplin most popular silent film star, played the Little Tramp
27.)The Jazz Singer first movie with sound synchronized to the action
28.)Babe Ruth leading sports hero and baseball home run king
29.)Charles Lindbergh first to fly across the Atlantic non stop
30.)Flapper a young women with short skirts and roughed cheeks who had their hair cropped close in style known as a bob
31.)Sigmund Freud contributed to literary and artistic modernism
32.) Lost Generation writers who no longer had faith in the cultural guideposts of the Victorian era
33.)F.Scott Fitzgerald explored the reality of the American dream of wealth, success and emotional fulfillment
34.)Ernest Hemingway explored similar themes but in a new idiom
35.)Prohibition the banning of alcohol use
36.)Marcus Garvey most prominent new African American leader to emerge
37.) Jazz is a musical form based on improvisation
38.)Louis Armstrong became the unofficial ambassador of jazz
39.)Bessie Smith the " Empress of the Blues"
40.)Harlem Renaissance helped give a new vocabulary and dynamic to race relations in the United States
41.)Claude McKay Jamaican immigrant most militant writers
42.)Langston Hughes most powerful African American literary of his time
43.)Zora Neale Hurston wrote books such as Mules and Men , and Their Eyes Were Watching God
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