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Chapter 11

Chapter 11 Vocabulary

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Henry Ford Introduced a series of methods and ideas that revolutionized production, wages,working conditions, and daily life.
Mass Production Rapid manufacture of large numbers of identical products.
Model T Reliable car the average American could buy.
Scientific Management Experts to improve Ford's mass-production techniques.
Assembly Line Technique where at each step, a worker added something to assemble the automobile.
Consumer Revolution A flood of new, affordable goods became available to the public.
Installment Buying Consumer makes a down payment then pays it off in monthly payments.
Bull Market Period of rising stock prices.
Buying on Margin Form of buying on credit. Buyer pays 10% of the stock upfront to the broker.
Andrew Mellon Secretary of the Treasury. Supported legislation that advanced business interests.
Herbert Hoover Secretary of Commerce. Worked with business and labor leaders to achieve voluntary advancements.
Teapot Dome Scandal Secretary of the Interior leased government oil reserves to private oilmen in return for bribes.
Calvin Coolidge Vice President.
Washington Naval Disarmament Conference Raised hopes that nations could solve disagreements without resorting to war.
Kellog-Briand Pact Attempt to prevent war. Outlawed war "as an instrument of national policy."
Dawes Plan Agreement that arranged US loans for Germany.
Modernism 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 literal truth.
Scopes Trial Clash of Modernism and Fundamentalism. Theory of evolution created.
Clarence Darrow Most celebrated defense attorney in America.
Quota System Governed immigration from specific countries.
Ku Klux Klan Promoted hatred towards African-Americans, Jews, Catholics, and immigrants.
Prohibition Banning of alcohol.
18th Amendment Banned alcohol.
Volstead Act Law that enforced the 18th Amendment.
Bootlegger Sold illegal alcohol.
Charlie Chaplin Most popular silent film star. Played the Little Tramp.
The Jazz Singer First movie with sound synchronized to the action.
Babe Ruth Leading sports hero. Baseball home-run king.
Charles Lindbergh First to fly solo and non-stop across the Atlantic.
Flapper Young women dressed in a certain style.
Sigmund Freud Contributed to literary and artistic modernism. Argues that human behavior was driven by unconscious desires.
"Lost Generation" American writers that no longer had faith in the cultural guideposts of the Victorian era.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Novelist who explored the reality of the American dream of wealth, success, and emotional fulfillment.
Ernest Hemingway Explored similar themes to Fitzgerald but in a new idiom.
Marcus Garvey African-American leader who drew one important conclusion: Everywhere blacks were exploited.
Jazz Musical form based on improvisation.
Louis Armstrong Unofficial ambassador of jazz.
Bessie Smith Vocal soloist. "Empress of the Blues."
Harlem Renaissance The flowering of African American culture.
Claude McKay Jamaican immigrant. Most militant writer. Wrote about African American struggles.
Langston Hughes Most powerful African American literacy voice. Thought Harlem Renaissance was more about African American culture and life.
Zora Neale Hurston Traveled rural backroads of Florida, collecting folk tales in books.
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