Chapter 11
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| 1. Model T | a reliable car the average American could afford
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| 2. scientific management | approach to improving efficiency, in which experts looked at every step of a manufacturing process, trying to find ways to reduce time, effort, and expense
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| 3. assembly line | arrangement of equipment and workers in which work passes from operation to operation in direct line until the product is assembled
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| 4. consumer revolution | flood of new, affordable goods in the decades after World War I
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| 5. installment buying | method of purchase in which buyer makes a small down- payment and then pays off the rest of the debt in regular monthly payments
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| 6. bull market | period of rising stock prices
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| 7. buying on margin | system of buying stocks in which a buyer pays a small percentage of the purchase price while the borer advances the rest
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| 8. 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
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| 9. Washington Naval Disarmament Conference | meeting held in 1921 and 1922 where world leaders agreed to limit construction of warships
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| 10. Kellogg-Briand Pact | 1928 agreement in which many nations agreed to outlaw war
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| 11. Dawes Plan | agreement in which the United States loaned money to Germany, allowing Germany to make reparation payments to Britain and France
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| 12. modernism | trend that emphasized science and secular values over traditional ideas about religion
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| 13. fundamentalism | movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles
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| 14. Scopes Trial | 1925 trial of a Tennessee school-teacher for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution
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| 15. quota system | arrangement that limited the number of immigrants who could enter the United States from specific countries
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| 16. Ku Klux Klan | organization that promotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic and religious groups
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| 17. Prohibition | the forbidding by law of the manufacture, transport, and sale of alcohol
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| 18. Eighteen Amendment | constitutional amendment banning the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol in the United States
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| 19. Volstead Act | law enacted by Congress to enforce the Eighteen Amendment
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| 20. bootlegger | one who sells illegal alcohol
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| 21.The Jazz Singer | the first movie with sound synchronized to the action
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| 22. flapper | young woman from the 1920s who defied traditional rules of conduct and dress
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| 23. "Lost Generation" | term for American writers of the 1920s marked by disillusion with World War I and a search for a new sense of meaning
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| 24. jazz | American musical form developed by African Americans, based on improvisation and blending blues, ragtime, and European-bases popular music
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| 25. Harlem Renaissance | period during the 1920s in which African American novelists, poets, and artists celebrated their culture
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