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40 Cards in this Set
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Scientific management
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Businesses began experimenting with new ways of increasing productivity
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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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Automobile manufacturer
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Model T
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1908 car a sturdy low cost automobile
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assembly line
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fast way to build stuff
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Auto-touring
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going camping and on roadtrips
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Alfred P. Sloan
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head of GM motors
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installment plan
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allowed people to pay for there cars over time
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planned obsolescence
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made new models to replace older models
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volstead act
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prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages
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Al Capone
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gangster was in bootlegging in Chicago
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Eliot Ness
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Tried to stop the gangsters from bootlegging
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Untouchables
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the group the eliot ness lead
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Twenty-first Amendment
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it stopped prohibition
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flappers
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adventurous independent and often career minded the started wearing skimpier clothing
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Cecil B DeMille
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Movie director
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Babe Ruth
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Great BaseBall player
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Jim Thorpe
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Great athlete Olympic athlete who went on to play baseball and football
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Charles Lindbergh
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a pilot who was the biggest celebrity off the 1920s
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Amelia Earhart
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pilot
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Aimee Semple McPherson
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most popular revivalists
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Fundamentalism
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didnt want to change what was in the bible is write
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Clarence Darrow
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famous criminal lawyer from Chicago was in scopes trial
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Scopes trial
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case between traditional religious values and new values based on science
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jazz
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came from blacks
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blues
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different form of black music
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Bessie Smith
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famous blues singer
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Louis Armstron
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Jazz musician
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Bix Beiderbecke
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white jazz person who started that
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Duke Ellington
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famous jazz person
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Langston Hughes
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Black poet
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Harlem Renaissance
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blacks gathered and had music and talked about there heritage
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Paul Robeson
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successful actor in Emperor Jones he was son of a former slave
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Rose McClendon
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leading black actor in Deep River
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James Weldon Johnson
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Active Harlem Renaissance supporter
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Ernest Hemingway
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a writer that wrote about WW1
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Lost Generation
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was the nickname given to the writers that wrote about ww1
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F Scott Fitzgerald
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Lost generation writer he wrote the Great Gatsby
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Alfred Stieglitz
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a photographer in 1920 made it famous
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Diego Rivera
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was a famous artist in the 1920s focused on workers
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