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chp 11
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |