A | B |
Carmaker, methods and ideas that revolutionized production, wages, working conditions and daily life | Henry Ford |
a reliable car the average American could afford | Model T |
experts that improve mass-production techniques | Scientific management |
consumer makes a small down payment and then pay off the rest of the debt in regular monthly payments | installment buying |
a period of rising stock prices | bull market |
paying for stock with a small %, then paying the broker back over a period of months | buying on margin |
Sec. of the Interior oil reserves where transferred to Dept. of Interior, reserves leased to private oilmen in return for "loans" | Teapot Dome Schandal |
World leaders agreed to limit construction of large warships and hammered out a settlement on sever problems between Japan and the West | Washington Naval Disarmament Conference |
a treaty to "outlaw" war "as an instrument of national policy" | Kellogg-Briand Pact |
arranged loans to Germany, which enabled Germany to make reparation payments to Britain and France, which allowed Britain and France to pay loans back to U.S. | Dawes Plan |
trend to emphasis science and secular values over traditional ideas about religion | modernism |
basic truths about religion, every word in the Bible was literal truth | fundamentalism |
celebrated defense attorney, defended Scopes | Clarence Darrow |
policy where the government would assign a percentage of immigrants from a particular country that would be allowed to enter the U.S. | quota system |
banning of alcohol | prohibition |
law that allowed the enforcement of the 18th amendment | Volstead Act |
people who produced and sold illegal alcohol to consumer | bootlegger |
popular silent film star, played "Little Tramp" | Charlie Chaplin |
first movie synchronized sound to the action | "The Jazz Singer" |
first pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, non-stop | Charles Lindbergh |
a young woman with short skirts, rouged cheeks who had her hair cropped close in a style known as a bob | flapper |
a musical style based on improvisation | Jazz |
trumpet player, unofficial ambassador of Jazz | Louis Armstrong |
feature vocal soloist, "Empress of the Blues" | Bessie Smith |
a period of growth and development of African-American culture | Harlem Renaissance |
powerful literary voice, force for the celebration of African American culture and life. | Langston Hughes |