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19 Cards in this Set
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A system in which each worker specializes in doing a specific job in putting together a product
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Assembly Line
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Henry Ford used the 1st Assembly Line in his automobile plants
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The payment of money over time toward the total cost of an item.
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Installment Plan
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Payment process allowing those with lower incomes to purchase high ticket items.
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The communications that reach large numbers of people
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Mass Media
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1st Radio station broadcast in 1920 & silent movies; "Talkies" began in 1927.
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A type of music developed by African-Americans in the South in the early 1900s.
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Jazz
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Began in New Orleans; used horns, drums, piano & banjo as instruments w/ male & female singers
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A time of new interest and activity in the arts.
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Renaissance
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A cultural rebirth of the arts
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A sharp rise in the price of goods
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Inflation
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A part of the business cycle that reduces the value of the dollar by high prices of goods
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To force a person who is not a citizen to leave the country by government order.
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Deport
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100's of immigrants were ordered out of the U.S. for allegedly being communists
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Elected as President in 1920, he chose his friends for government positions and some were corrupt.
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Warren G. Harding
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Died on 8/2/23 after scandal was discovered and tried in courts
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Harding's successor as President in 1923; helped uncover corruption in government
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Calvin Coolidge
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encouraged Congress to pass laws helping businesses grow larger,making salaries go up & prices go down. People could buy more.
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Albert Fall, Secretary of the Interior accepted bribes from private oil companies, was found guilty and jailed.
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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Mr. Fall was one of Pres. Hardings friends; an example of Chronyism. Harding lost credibility after this.
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He owned a large automobile manufacturing company; 1st to build cars on an assembly line building cars faster & cheaper
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Henry Ford
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Ford built the Model T using specialized workers on assembly lines; later used to produce other products
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(1)Made steel,rubber,glass & oil industry grow to supply needs of auto builders (2) Americans had new jobs selling, repairing, parking & driving cars (3) 1,000s of miles of new roads are built
(4)Small businesses (diners,motels,&stores) are built where motorists may stop (5)With roads,people moved from cities to suburbs |
Automobile Industry's effect on the U.S. Culture & Economy
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Teenagers found new freedom in dating rituals
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Bessie Smith (singer), Louis Armstrong (Trumpet) & Jelly Roll Martin (Sax)
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Jazz Musicians
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Popular with both black & white music lovers of the "Roaring Twenties"
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Babe Ruth (baseball), Red Grange (football), Jack Dempsey (boxer) & Gertrude Ederlie (swimmer)
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Famous Sports Athletes of the 1920s
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Heroes of Sports
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A pilot of the 1920s who flew his plane, "Spirit of St. Louis" solo from New York to Paris, France.
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Charles Lindberg
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"Lucky Lindy" opened the door to using planes for carrying mail between Chicago & San Francisco
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African American artists, writers, & musicians who settled in Harlem created books, plays, poems & paintings.
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The Harlem Renaissance
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African Americans used literature and art to show their racial pride & protest racial discrimination
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Two Italian immigrants who robbed a payroll from a shoe factory and killed a guard; found guilty of Communism and were executed in 1927.
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Sacco & Vanzetti Case
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This case showed the growing fears of Communism in the U.S.
The two men were not given a fair trial in court |
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A law that closed the door of the United States to many immigrants.Only 357,000 were into U.S. each year
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Immigration Restriction Law of 1921
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Hundreds of people were deported by the U.S. government.
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Between 1910 & 1930 more than two million African Americans migrated, or moved from the South to the Northern cities of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, & Detroit
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The Great Migration
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Blacks left south because of unfair working conditions as sharecroppers, floods & droughts made farming difficult & laws forced segregation of blacks & whites
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