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37 Cards in this Set
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Frederick w. Taylor
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An early supporter of the theory
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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 steady low cost automobile
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Assembly line
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Method to help factories make goods faster
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Auto touring
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Seeking the fresh air of the countryside
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Alfred p. Sloan
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head of gm explained he 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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Made products 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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To enforce the amendment
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Al Capone
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Ruled Chicanos under cities criminal gangs controlled liquor sales
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Eliot ness
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Organized a top squad of young detectives to go after gangsters
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Untouchables
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The detectives were named the untouchables
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Twenty first amendment
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Turned millions Americans into lawbreakers before it was repealed
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Flappers
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Young women who adopted new style
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Cecil b demille
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Introduced a new style of filmmaking
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Babe Ruth
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Legionary baseball player
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Jim Thorpe
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Played every sport in high school
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Charles Lindbergh
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Was a pilot and the biggest celebrity
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Amelia Earnhardt
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Became the first women to fly across the Atlantic Ocean
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Aimee simple McPherson
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One of the most popular revivalists
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Fundamentalism
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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
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Blues
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Jazz band all blacks
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Bessie smith
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He brought blues music to a broader audience
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Louis Armstrong
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Began to adopt some unique characteristics
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Biz Beiderbecke
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Wove jazz rhythms into their music
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Duke Ellington
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Famous jazz musician
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Langston Hughes
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Noted that jazz proclaimed
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Harlem renaissance
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Flourishing of artistic development
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Paul Robeson
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Received title for emperor jones
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Rose McClendon
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African American actor
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James Weldon Johnson
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A Harlem renesance supporter
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Ernest Hemingway
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Post war writer
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Lost generation
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A writer
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F Scott Fitzgerald
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Lost generation writer
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Alfred Stieglitz
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Potographer
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