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