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32 Cards in this Set
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Scientific Management
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A new way of increasing production
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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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Applied the Scientific management style and helped to grow the automotive industry
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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 way factories used to make the production of goods faster
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Auto Touring
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Traveling, camping, sightseeing inside your automobile
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Alfred P. Sloan
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Began to make luxary cars
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Installment plan
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Allowed people to pay for their cars over time instead of all at once
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Planned obsolescence
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Making products that will go out of style and then update them to make a better profit
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Volstead Act
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Tried to help enforce prohibition
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Al Capone
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A very well known mobster who worked for control of all liquor sales
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Eliot Ness
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Organized a top squad of young detectives in order to go after some of the mobsters
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Untouchables
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A nickname given to Ness and his detectives because they enforced the prohibition
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Flappers
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Women who were different from the rest of the women in the society
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Cecil B. DeMille
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Made a new type of movie that was characterized by epic plots and complex charicters
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Babe Ruth
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A famous baseball player
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Jim Thorpe
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He became the first person to win the pentathlon and decathlon
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Charles Lindbergh
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He made a nonstop flight from new york to paris
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Amelia Earhart
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First woman to fly across the atlantic
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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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It was a more conservative look on American faith
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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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A trial that exposes a deep division in American society between traditional religious values
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Blues
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Another type 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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One of the first to adopt some of its unique charicteristics from blues
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Bix Beiderbecke
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Used some jazz themes in his music
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Ellington
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A well known jazz group
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Langston Hughes
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Said that jazz music expressed the sadness, pain and joy of black America
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Harlem renaissance
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A time when many ceative blacks lived in Harlem
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Paul Robenson
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One of the most critically successful actors of the 1920's
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Rose McClendon
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One of the leading African American actors
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