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ch 14 vocab valles

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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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