Topic 7 "The Roaring 20s"
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| Henry Ford | Introduced a series of methods and ideas that revolutionized production, wages, and working conditions.
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| Mass Production | The rapid manufacturing of large numbers of identical products
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| Model T | The first reliable and affordable car that the average American could enjoy.
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| Assembly line | Production method in which someone specialized in a specific phase of a products manufacturing
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| Consumer revolution | A time period in which a flood of new and affordable goods became available to the public.
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| Installment buying | Method in which a consumer can make a small down payment and then pay off the rest of the debt in regular monthly payments.
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| Bull Market | A period of rising stock prices and stock market involvement in the United States.
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| Washington Naval Disarmament Conference | Meeting held in 1921 and 1922 where world leaders agreed to limit the construction of warships
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| Kellogg-Briand Pact | 1928 agreement in which many nations agreed to outlaw war as a solution to international conflict
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| Dawes Plan | Agreement in which the United States loaned money to Germany allowing Germany to pay off war debt it owed to France and Great Britain
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| Modernism | Artistic and literary movement sparked by a break with past conventions
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| Fundamentalism | Movement or attitude stressing strict adherence to the bible and religious teachings as an answer to every important moral and scientific question.
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| Scopes Trial | 1925 trial of a Tennessee schoolteacher for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution
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| Quota System | Arrangement that limited the number of immigrants that could enter the United States from specific countries.
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| Ku Klux Klan | Organization that promotes hatred and violence against specific ethnic and religious groups
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| Prohibition | The forbidding by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol
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| Eighteenth Amendment | Constitutional amendment banning the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcohol in the United States
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| Bootlegger | One who sold illegal alcohol during the "prohibition" time period
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| Flapper | A young women in the 1920s who defied traditional rules of conduct and dress
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| "Lost Generation" | Term for ameircan writers of the 1920s marked by disillusion with World War I and a search for a new sense of meaning in the world
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| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Writer who explored the reality of the American dream of wealth, success, and emotional fulfillment.
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| Harlem Renaissance | Time period during the 1920s in which African American novelists, poets, and artists celebrated their culture.
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| Marcus Garvey | Prominent African American leader during the 1920s that promoted black unity and universal black nationalism. Advocated the separation of the races.
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| Langston Hughes | The most powerful African American literary voice of his time who promoted the diversity of everyday American American life.
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