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Mass Production |
Production of goods in large numbers through the is of machinery and assembly lines |
Factories; produce |
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Assembly Line |
Arrangement of equipment and workers in which work passes from operation to operation in direct line until the product is assembled. |
Conveyor Belt |
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Installment Buying |
Method of purchase in which maker makes a small down-payment and then pays off the rest of the debt in regular monthly payments |
Monthly |
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Buying on Margin |
System of buying stocks in which a buyer pays a small percentage of the purchase price while the broker advances the rest |
Stocks |
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Teapot Dome Scandal |
Scandal during the Harding administration in which the Secretary of the Interior leased government oil reserves to private oilmen in return for bribes. |
Secretary |
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Dates Plan |
Agreement in which the United States loaned money to Germany, allowing Germany to make reparation payments to Britain and France. |
The Brits and the French |
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Scopes Trial |
1952 trial of a Tennessee school-teacher for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. |
1952 Trial |
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Quota System |
Arrangement that limited the number of immigrants who could enter the United States from specific countries. |
Immigrants |
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Ku Klux Klan |
Organization that promotes hatred and doscrimi action against specific ethnic groups and religious groups |
Stupid ******** |
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Prohibition |
The forbidding by law of the manufacture, transport, and sale of alcohol |
ALCOHOL |
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18th Amendment |
Banned the making, selling, or transporting of alcoholic beverages in the US. |
Later repealed in the 21st Amendment |
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Volstead Act |
Law enacted by Congress to enforce the 18th Amendment. |
18th Amendment |
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Fundamentalism |
Movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles. |
Basic Principles |
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Bootleggers |
One who sells illegal alcohol |
Oooooooooooo |
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Flapper |
Young woman from the 1920s who defied traditional rules of conduct and dress |
NAH FOOL, I'M DOING ME PADRE |
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Jazz |
American musical form developed by African Americans, based on improvisation and blending blues, ragtime, and European-based popular music |
My jam πππ |
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Harlem Renaissance |
Period during the 1920s in which African American novolists, poets, and artists celebrated their culture. |
Culture |
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Henry Ford |
Introduced a series of methods and ideas that revolutionized production, wages, working conditions, and daily life. |
Yeeeeeeeeeee booooooooooiiiiiiiiii πππ¦ππ |