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31 Cards in this Set
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Scientific management
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A new approach to growing demand
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Frederick W. Taylor
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Early supporter of scientific management
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Henry ford
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Invented the automobile and assembly line
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Model T.
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A sturdy, low cost automobile
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Assembly line
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Helped make items faster, each place had a certain job
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Auto-touring
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Using automobiles for camping and sightseeing vacations
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Alfred P. Sloan
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Head of general motors
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Installment plan
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Allowed customers to pay for a car over time
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Planned obsolescence
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To have old things be traded in for new versions of it
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Volstead act
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Enforced the eighteenth amendment (no alcohol)
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Al Capone
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A famous gangster in prohibition Chicago
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Eliot ness
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Organized a top squad of detectives to take down gangsters
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Untouchables
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Ness's group of detectives
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Twenty first amendment
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Repealed the prohibition. Of alcohol
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Flappers
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Girls who adapted new styles in the era
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Cecil B. DeMille
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A movie director who introduced new filmmaking styles
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Babe Ruth
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Legendary baseball player
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Jim Thorpe
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Student athlete
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Charles Lindbergh
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Pilot from St. Louis flew the Spirit of St. Louis first person flew across Atlantic Ocean
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Amelia Earhart
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First women across flew Atlantic Ocean
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Aimee semple McPherson
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Popular revivalists
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Fundamentalism
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A Protestant movement
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Clarence Darrow
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Famous criminal lawyer, defended John scopes
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The scopes trial
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Exposed a deep division in American society
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Jazz
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A new style of music started in the 20s
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Blues
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A form of the newly created jazz
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Bessie smith
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A creator of blues music
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Louis Armstrong
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A jazz musician
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Box Beiderbecke
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A jazz pianist
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Duke Ellington
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Jazz musician
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Langston Hughes
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African American poet
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