Chapter 23

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Scientific management

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was one of the new approaches

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Frederick W. Taylor

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an early supporter of the theory, explained scientific management was based on the idea that every kind of work could be broken down into a series of smaller tasks

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Henry Ford

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lowered the cost of their cars by implementing scientific-management practices

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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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to help factories make goods faster

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auto-touring

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millions of Americans participated in this new craze

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Alfred P. Sloan

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head of GM, explained the effect of car owners buying a second car

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installment plan

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to allow average consumers to buy his more expensive cars

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planned obsolescence

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manufacturers made products specifically to go out of style and then replaced them with up-to-date model

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volstead act

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to enforce the 18th amendment that banned alcoholic beverages

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Al capone

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ruled Chicago's underworld with his small army of mobsters

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Eliot Ness

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hoping to stem bootlegging, corruption, and violence, the federal prohibition Bureau hired special agent

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Untouchables

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Ness and his detectives were nicknamed this

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flappers

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people began to refer to women who adopted new style this

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Cecil B. DeMille

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introduced a new style of filmaking marked by epic plots and complex characters

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Babe Ruth

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legendary player who played for White Sox

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Jim Thorpe

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an athlete with talent and trained for the Olympics

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Charles Lindbergh

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was probably the biggest celebrity of the 1920s who flew airmail cargo

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Amelia Earhart

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became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean

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Aimmee Semple McPherson

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was one of the most popular revivalists

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Fundamentalism

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gained popularity during the decade was a protestant movement

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Clarence Darrow

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a famous criminal lawyer from Chicago

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Scopes Trial

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exposed a deep division in American Society between traditional religious values and new values based on scientific ways of thought

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jazz

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music first gained a wide following during the 1920s

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blues

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jazz musicians experimented with another form of African American music

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Bessie Smith

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brought blues music to a broader audience

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Louis Armstrong

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New Orleans musician who began to adopt some of jazz's unique characteristics

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Bix beiderbecke

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wove jazz rhythms into their music

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Langston Hughes

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noted that Jazz proclaimed, "Why should I want be white? I am a Negro- and beautiful."

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Harlem Renaissance

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many creative black writers, musicians, and artists lived in Harlem that the flourishing of artistic development in the 1920s

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Paul Robeson

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one of the most critically successful actors

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Rose McClendon

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was another leading African American actor of the 1920s

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James Weldon Johnson

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one of the most active Harlem Renaissance supporters

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Ernest Hemingway

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writers who scored middle-class consumerism and the superficiality of the postwar years in their works

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Lost Generation

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a label that stuck and the writers of this era became known as

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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another lost generation writer his novels chronicled the Jazz Age

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Alfred Stieglitz

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helped popularize photography