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40 Cards in this Set
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Scientific management
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A new approach to try to increase productivity in factories
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Frederick W. Taylor
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An early supporter of scientific management
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Henry Ford
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Automobile manufacturer who lowered the cost of his cars by implementing scientific management
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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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A new production method to help make factories faster
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Auto-touring
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Americans used their automobiles for camping and sightseeing vacations
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Alfred P. Sloan
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Head of GM
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Installment plan
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Allowed customers to pay for their cars over time
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Planned obsolescence
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Manufacturers made products specifically designed to go out of style and then replaced them with an up-to-date model
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Volstead Act
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Passed to enforce prohibition
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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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Organized a squad of young detectives to go after gangsters
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Untouchables
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The nickname of Ness and his detectives
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Twenty-first Amendment
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Prohibition was repealed by this in 1933
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Flappers
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Young women who adapted a new style
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Cecil B. DeMille
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Introduced a new style of filmmaking marked by epic plots and complex characters
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Babe Ruth
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Legendary baseball player
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Jim Thorpe
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Won the pentathlon and the decathlon in the 1912 Olympics
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Charles Lindbergh
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Pilot who flew from New York to Paris
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Amelia Earhart
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The first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean
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Aimee Semple McPherson
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One of the most popular revivalists
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Fundamentalism
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A Protestant movement that gained popularity during the decade
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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 that first gained a wide following during that time
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Blues
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Another form of African American music with improvised 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 jazz musician
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Bix Beiderbecke
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A white cornetist and pianist who wove jazz rhythms into his music
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Duke Ellington
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One of the most famous jazz musicians of he era
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Langston Hughes
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African American poet
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Harlem Renaissance
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The flourishing of artistic development in the 1920's
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Paul Robeson
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Successful actor who received praise for his title role in Emperor Jones
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Rose McClendon
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A 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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Writer of the Harlem Renaissance
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Lost Generation
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The writers of the era
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Another Lost Generation writer (The Great Gatsby)
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Alfred Stieglitz
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Helped popularize photography
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Diego Rivera
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One of the three major mural artist
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