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Chapter 11 pg. 322
The Twenties 1919-1929
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Henry Ford | Indroduced a series of methods and ideas that revolutionized production, wages, working conditions, and daily life. |
| Mass Production | Rapid manufature of large products that are manufacturing. |
| Model T | As a reliable car the average American could afford. |
| Scientific Management | Experts improve mass production technique. |
| Assembly Lines | At a step, a worker added something to construct the automobile. |
| Consumer Revolution | A flood of a new affordable goods became available to the public. |
| Installment Buying | A consumer would make a small down payment and pay off the rest of the debt in regular monthly payments. |
| Bull Market | A period of risking stock prices. |
| Buying on Margin | A form of buying on credit. |
| Andrew Mellon | Secretary of the Tresury. |
| Herbert Hoover | Worked for business and labor leaders to achieve voluntary advancements. |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | The worst scandal involved secretary of the interior Albert Fall. |
| Calvin Coolidge | Was the Vice President during his visit to his father's Vermont farm. |
| Washington Naval Disarmament Conference | Raised hopes that nation's could solve disagreements without restoring to war. |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | A treaty to "outlaw' as an instrument of national policy. |
| Dawes Plan | Arranged the U.S. loans to Germany. |
| Modernism | A growing trend to emphasize science and secular values over traditional ideas about religion. |
| Fundamentalism | Emphasized Protestant teachings and the belief that every word in the Bible was the literal truth. |
| Scopes Trail | Fundamentalism and modernism clashed head-on. |
| Clarence Darrow | The most celebrated defense attorney in America. |
| Quota System | To govern immigration from specific countries. |
| Ku Klux Klan | Terrorize African Americans who sought to vote. |
| Prohibition | The banning of alcohol use. |
| Eighteenth Amendment | Forbade the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol anywhere in the U.S. |
| Volstead Act | A law that officially enforced the amendment. |
| Bootleggers | Sold illegal alcohol to consumers. |
| Charlie Chaplin | The most popular silent film star, played the Little Tramp. |
| The Jazz Singer | The first movie with sound synchronized to the action. |
| Babe Ruth | Leading sports hero was a baseball home-run king. |
| Charles Lindbergh | Famous sports star that didn't match. |
| Flapper | A young woman with short skirts and rouged cheeks who has her hair cropped closed in styles known as a bob. |
| Sigmund Frend | Contributed to literary and artistic modernism. |
| "Lost Generation" | American writers of the 1920's. |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Explored the reality of the American dream of wealth, success, and emotional fulfillment. |
| Ernest Hemingway | Explored similar themes but in a new idion. |
| Marcus Garvey | The most prominrnt new African American leader to emerge in the 1920's. |
| Jazz | A musical formed based on improvisation. |
| Louis Armstrong | The unofficial ambassador of jazz. |
| Bessie Smith | A vocal soloist. |
| Harlem Renaissance | Gave new vocabulary and dynamic to race relations in the U.S. |
| Claude McKay | The most militiant writer from Jamaica. |
| Langston Hughes | A powerful African American literary voice. |
| Zora Neale Hurston | Another powerful voice. |
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