Term | Definition |
1.Model T | the first widely available automobile powered by a gasoline engine |
2.Scientific management | management of a business, industry, or economy |
3.assembly line | a series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled. |
4.consumer revolution | which there was a marked increase in consumption of various goods and products by individuals from different economic and social backgrounds |
5.installment buying | a system for paying for goods by installments |
6.bull market | a market in which share prices are rising, encouraging buying. |
7.buying on margin | a margin is collateral that the holder of a financial instrument has to deposit to cover some or all of the credit risk of his counterparty |
8.Teapot Dome Scandal | a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921 |
9.Washington Naval Disarmament Converence | was a military conference called by President Warren G. Harding and held in Washington |
10.Kellogg Briand Pact | was signed on August 27, 1928 by the USA, France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan and a number of other states |
11.Dawes plan | was an attempt following World War I for the Triple Entente to collect war reparations debt from Germany. |
12.Modernism | modern character or quality of thought, expression, or technique. |
13.fundamentalism | a form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture. |
14.scopes trial | was an American legal case in 1925 in which high school biology teacher John Scopes was accused of violating the state's Butler Act which made it unlawful to teach evolution. |
15.Quota system | required each English county to provide a quota of men for the Royal Navy |
16.Ku Klux Klan | a secret society of white Southerners in the United States |
17.prohibition | the prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol, esp. in the US between 1920 and 1933. |
18.18th amendment | the amendment went into affect and prohibited the invent and sale of alcohol in America. |
19.Volstead Act | reinforced the prohibition of alcohol in the United States. |
20.bootlegger | someone who makes or sells illegal liquor |
21.flapper | a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior. |
22.lost generation | the generation reaching maturity during and just after World War I, a high proportion of whose men were killed during those years. |
23.jazz | a type of music of black American origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm |
24.Harlem Renaissane | a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished |
25.the jazz singer | is an American musical film |