chp 11 gs us vocab
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| 1. Henry Ford | introduced a series of methods and ideas that revolutionized production , wages, working conditions, and daily life. (was a carmaker)
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| 2. mass production | fast manufacturing of large numbers of identical products.
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| 3. Model T | average affordable american car
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| 4. scientific management | men hired by ford to improve his mass-production techniques
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| 5. assembly line | multiple step process where people added something to construct the product.
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| 6. consumer revolution | a flood of new cheap goods became open to the public.
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| 7. installment buying | where a consumer would make a small down payment and then pay off the rest of the debt in regular monthly payments.
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| 8. bull market | a period of rising stock prices.
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| 9. buying on margin | another form of buying on credit.
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| 10. Andrew Mellon | was a wealthy banker administrated by Harding to be the Secretary of the Treasury.
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| 11. Herbert Hoover | secretary of commerce, worked with business and labor leaders to achieve voluntary advancements.
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| 12. Teapot Dome scandal | a scandal where Fall used the oil for personal use instead of giving it to the navy.
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| 13. Calvin Coolidge | vice president to harding. was sworn into presidency by his father when harding died.
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| 14. Washington Naval Disarmament Conference | an idea were nations could possibly solve disagreements without resorting to war.
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| 15. Kellogg-Briand Pact | another attempt to prevent war. (was useless)
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| 16. Dawes Plan | u.s. loans to germany.
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| 17. modernism | the trend to emphasize science over traditional ideas about religion
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| 18. fundamentalism | emphasized protestant teachings and the belief that every word in the bible was literal.
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| 19. Scopes Trial | where fundamentalism and modernism clashed in an argument
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| 20. Clarence Darrow | the most popular defense attorney in america
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| 21. quota system | a way to govern immigration from specific countries.
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| 22. Ku Klux Klan | a group of angry men who segregated certain types of people.
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| 23. Prohibition | ban of alcohol
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| 24. Eighteenth amendment | forbid the manufacture, sale, or distribution of alcohol
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| 25. volstead act | a law that enforced the 18th amendment
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| 26. bootleggers | people who sold illegal alcohol to other people
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| 27. Charlie Chaplin | celebrity - silent film star
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| 28. The jazz singer | first movie with synchronized sound with action
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| 29. Babe Ruth | famous baseball star (king)
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| 30. Charles Lindbergh | famous aviator ...first to fly across the atlantic ocean solo , nonstop.
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| 31. flapper | a young woman with short skirts and a bob haircut.
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| 32. Sigmund Freud | an austrian psychologist help contribute to the literary and artistic modernism
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| 33. "Lost Generation" | american writers are often referred to as this because they no longer had faith in the victorian era.
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| 34. F. Scott Fitzgerald | was a man (novelist) who explored the american dream of wealth, success, and emotional fulfillment.
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| 35. Ernest Hemingway | another novelist who explored similar themes but in a new idiom compared to Fitzgerald's.
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| 36. Marcus Garvey | a prominent new african american leader who emerged in the 1920's. said blacks were exploited.
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| 37. jazz | improvisational music
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| 38. Louis Armstrong | was the unofficial ambassador to jazz
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| 39. Bessie Smith | this lady was a vocal soloists who was featured in jass bands
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| 40. Harlem Renaissance | the beginning of african american culture was known as this
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| 41. Claude Mckay | was a writer showed how african americans struggled for dignity in the face of discrimination.
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| 42. Langston Hughes | most powerful african american literary voice. it was not about politics for this man but the celebration of african american culture and life.
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| 43. Zora Neale Hurston | a black woman who explored the back roads of florida collecting folk tales in books like Mules and Men.
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