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Chapter 11 Vocab

Chapter 11 Vocab- 43 words

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1. Henry Ford A car maker who introduced a series of methods and ideas that revolutionized production, wages, working conditions, and daily life.
2. Mass Production Production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly lines.
3. Model T Automobile manufactured by Henry Ford to be affordable on the mass market.
4. Scientific Management Approach to improving efficiency, in which experts looked at every step of manufacturing process, trying to find ways to reduce time, effort, and expense.
5. Assembly Line Arrangement of equipment and workers in which work passes from operation to operation in direct line until the product is assembled.
6. Consumer Revolution Flood of new, affordable goods in the decades after World War 1.
7. Installment buying Method of purchase in which buyer makes small down-payment and then pays off the rest of the debt in regular monthly payments.
8. Bull market Period of rising stock prices.
9. Buying on margin System of buying stocks in which a buyer pays a small percentage of the purchase price while the broker advances the rest.
10. Andrew Mellon Secretary of the Treasury. Had his idea of prudent economic policy was to support legislation that advanced business interests.
11. Herbert Hoover Worked with business and labor leaders to achieve voluntary advancements.
12. Teapot Dome Scandal Scandal during the Harding administration in which the Secretary of the Interior leased government oil reserves to private oilmen in return for bribes.
13. Calvin Coolidge Vice President became President after Harding's death. His father swore him in as President using the family Bible.
14. Washington Naval Disarmament Conference Meeting held in 1921 and 19322 where the world leaders agreed to limit construction of warships.
15. Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928 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 Trend that emphasized science and secular values over traditional ideas about religion.
18. Fundamentalism Movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles.
19. Scopes Trial 1925 trial of a Tennessee school teacher for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
20. Clarence Darrow Most celebrated defense attorney in America, traveled from Chicago to defend Scopes.
21. Quota System Arrangement that limited the number of immigrants who could enter the United States from specific countries.
22. Ku Klux Klan Organization that promotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic and religious groups.
23. Prohibition The forbidding by law of the manufacture, transport, and sale of alcohol.
24. 18th Amendment Constitutional amendment banning the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol in the United States.
25. Volstead Act Law enacted by Congress to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment.
26. Bootlegger One who sells illegal alcohol.
27. Charlie Chaplin Comedian and famous film star, who played in the film "Little Tramp."
28. The Jazz Singer The first movie with sound synchronized to the action.
29. Babe Ruth Leading sports hero, was base ball home-run king.
30. Charles Lindbergh Aviator, he flew was the first to cross the Atlantic solo and nonstop.
31. Flapper Young women from the 1920s who defied traditional rules of conduct and dress.
32. Sigmund Freud Austrian psychologist who contributed to literacy and artistic modernism.
33. Lost Generation Term for American writers if the 1920s marked by disillusion with World War 1 and a search for a new sense of meaning.
34. F. Scott Fitzgerald Explored the reality of the American dream of wealth, success, and emotional fulfillment. Wrote the Great Gatsby.
35. Ernest Hemingway Wrote a Farewell to Arms, he also explored similar themes as Fitzgerald, but in a new idiom.
36. Marcus Garvey Most prominent American leader who was born in Jamaica. He promoted the idea of universal black nationalism.
37. Jazz American musical form developed by African Americans, based on improvisation and blending blues, ragtime, and European-based popular music.
38. Louis Armstrong Became the unofficial ambassador of jazz. He was a trumpet player who with his talents influenced the development of jazz.
39. Bessie Smith Vocal socialist, "Empress of the Blues."
40. Harlem Renaissance Period during the 1920s in which African American novelists, poets, and artists celebrated their culture.
41. Claude McKay Jamaican immigrant, was the most militant of African American writers. In his poems and novels he showed he struggles of African Americans and their advancement in the face of discrimination.
42. Langston Hughes The most powerful African American literacy voice in this time period. For him the movement was about African American culture, not politics.
43. Zora Neale Hurston Another powerful voice, she collected folk tales. She also wrote a book expressing the new longing for independence felt by many women black and white.
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