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CH: 11

Vocab for Chapter 11

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1. Henry Ford Innovative car maker
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 method to improve efficiency
5. Assembly Line A way to manufacture goods relatively fast by means of a station system where individual workers work on an aspect of the product
6. Consumer Revolution A flood of new, affordable goods which became available to the public
7. Installment Buying A consumer would pay a small down payment and pay off the rest of the debt in regular monthly payments
8. Bull Market A period of rising stock prices
9. Buying on Margin Another way of buying with credit
10. Andrew Mellon Secretary of the treasury under Harding
11. Herbert Hoover Secretary of Commerce under Harding
12. Teapot Dome Scandal A scandal in which Albert Fall stole oil from the navy, with Harding's approval, and sold it to businessmen
13. Calvin Coolidge President of the US after Harding's death
14. Washington Naval Disarmament Conference Conference in Washington that limited the size of a nation's navy
15. Kellogg-Briand Pact An attempt to outlaw war as a tool of foreign policy; failed even though it was signed
16. Dawes Plan A plan to supply money to Germany who could then give Britain and France their reparations which they could repay their loans to the US
17. Modernism Emphasis of using science and secular views over traditional religion
18. Fundamentalism Emphasized protestant teachings and the belief that every word in the bible is literal truth
19. Scopes Monkey Trial Trial of whether or not it should be legal to teach evolution in school
20. Clarence Darrow The Most celebrated defense attorney in America
21. Quota System A system that governed how many immigrants from a nation that could arrive in a year
22. Ku Klux Klan White supremacist group founded shortly after the civil war, but then disbanded and revived in 1925 that targeted Jews, Catholics, Blacks and others
23. Prohibition The banning of alcohol use
24. Eighteenth Amendment Amendment banning the sell, manufacture, and transport of alcohol
25. Volstead Act A law that officially enforced the act
26. Bootlegger Someone who illegally transported illegally made alcohol
27. Charlie Chaplin The most popular silent film star of the time
28. The Jazz Singer The first movie with sound synchronized with the picture
29. Babe Ruth Long time home run king of baseball (Beaten by Hank Aaron in 1975 [I think])
30. Charles Lindbergh Aviator that flew the first transatlantic flight (Was also a Fascist)
31. Flapper A young woman with short skirts and rouged cheeks who had her hair cropped close in a style known as a bob
32. Sigmund Freud (Carl Jung is better) Austrian psychoanalyst who contributed to artistic and literary modernism (CARL JUNG IST BESSER!)
33. "Lost Generation" American writers of the 1920s
34. F. Scott Fitzgerald Explored the reality of the American dream
35. Ernest Hemingway Writer and Socialist of the 1920s who felt betrayed by the American dream and the literary language itself
36. Marcus Garvey Black leader
37. Jazz A musical form based on improvisation
38. Louis Armstrong Jazz Trumpeter
39. Bessie Smith The "Empress of Blues"
40. Harlem Renaissance Flowering of African American culture
41. Claude McKay Militant African American writer
42. Langston Hughes African American poet
43.Zora Neale Hurston African American writer
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