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| scientific management | theory promoted by Frederick W Taylor, held that every kind of work could be broken into a series of smaller tasks with set raates of production
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| assemblyline | production system created by Henry Ford, to make goods faste by moving parts on a conveyor belt past workers
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| installment plan | a way of purchasing goods in which consumers pay for goods in small increments over time
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| planned obsolescence | pratcice of manufacturing products that are designed to go out of style
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| Henry Ford | used the assembly line, paid good wages to his workers, but stressed "American values", opposed workers use of alcohol or tobacco even in their homes
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| model T | low-cost popular automobile developed by Henry Ford
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| flappers | young women of the 1920's who challenged social traditions with their dress and behavior
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| Volstead Act | federal law that enforced the Eighteentgh Amendment
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| Al Capone | Chicago gangster who ruled Chicago from bootlegging, an example of how prohibition allowed organized crime to prosper
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| Eliot Ness | leader of the "Untouchables", and bringiong down Al Capone
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| Twenty-first Amendment | constitutional amendment that ended prohibition by repealing the Eightenth Amendment
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| Charles Lindberg | first to fly solo from New York to Paris, popular celebrity of the `920's
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| Scopes Trial | high school science teacher tried for teaching evolution
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| jazz | music combining a variety of musical styles; origninated with African-Americans in New Orleans.
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| blues | music that grew out of slave music and religious spirituals, where the notes matche the mood of the lyrics
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| Louis Armstrong | popular jazz musician "Ambassador of Jazz"
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| Langston Hughes | African-American poet whose works protrayed a sense of hope and pride
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| Harlem Renaissance | period of great African-American artistic works, originated in New York
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| lost generation | group of writes whose works reflected the horros of WWI, and criticized consumerism and post war society
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| F. Scott Fitzgerald | lost generation author, "The Great Gatsby", a shaken faith of post WWI society
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