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36 Cards in this Set
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Henry ford
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Automobile manufacturer that 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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Scientific management
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Theory promoted by Frederick Taylor held that every kind of work could be broken into a series of saller tasks and that rates of production could be set for each component task.
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Frederick Taylor
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An early supporter of the theory, explained that 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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Assembly line
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Production system created by Henry Ford to make goods faster by moving parts on a conveyor belt past workers
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Auto-touring
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Craze that encouraged Americans to take long sight-seeing trips in their automobiles.
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Installment plan
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A way of purchasing goods in which the consumer pays for goods in small increments over time
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Alfred Sloan
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Head of GM, explained the effect of cra owners buying a secind car
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Planned obsolescence
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Ptactice of manufacturing products that are designed to go out of style.
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Volstead act
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Federal law that enforced the Eighteenth Amendment
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Al Capone
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Ruled Chicagos under world with his small army of mobsters
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Elliot Ness
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Special agent hired by the federal Prohibition Bureau organized a top squad of young detectives to go after gangsters
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Untouchables
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Nickname given to a group of detectives led by Elliot Ness who targeted gangsters during Prohibition
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Flappers
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Young women in the 1920's who challenged social traditions with their dress and behavior.
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Cecil B. DeMille
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Introduced a new style of film making marked by epic plots and complex characters.
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Babe Ruth
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Legendary baseball player had outstanding seasons in the 1920's and attracted new fans.
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Jim Thorpe
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Very good athlete wasin the olympics won pentathalin and decathalon first person to do so, also played professional baseball.
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Charles Lindbergh
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Biggest celebrity of the 1920's pilot
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Amelia Earhart
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Became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean
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Aimee McPherson
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One of the most popular revivalists
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Fundamentalism
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Protestant religious movement that teaches that traditional christain doctrine should be accepted without question and that the Bible is literally true.
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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 Amercian society between traditional religious values and new values based on scientific ways of thought to Dayton for the trial
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Jazz
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Music that originated with African American musicians in New Orleans and gained popularity in the 1920's
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Blues
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Jazz influenced music that grew out of slave music and religious spirituals
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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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Jazz musician who began to adopt some of blues unique characteristics
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Bix Beiderbecke
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Cornetist and pianoist who wove jazz rhythms into their music
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Duke Ellington
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One of the most famous jazz musicians
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Langston hughes
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African american who proclaimed his joy of jazz sad music
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Paul robeson
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Recieved praise for his title role in Eugene oneills drama emperor jones. Very successful actor
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Rose mcclendon
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Afrocan american acotr of the 1920's
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James johnson
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Harlem rensaissance supporters
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Ernest hemingway
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A writer in the 1920's
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Lost generation
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An era where the writers became kniwn as the lost generation
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Fitsgerald
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Lost generation writer
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