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20 Cards in this Set
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Scientific management
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New approach to increasing productivity.
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Fredrick w. Taylor
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Early supporter of scientific management.
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Henry ford
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Lowered the cost of their cars
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Model t
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Sturdy low cost automobile
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Assembly line
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A new production method to help factories make goods faster.
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Auto touring
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Americans used their cars to camp and sightsee
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Alfred p. Sloan
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Head of GM
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Installment plan
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To allow average costumes to buy more expensive cars.
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Planned obsolescence
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Practice of manufacturing products that are designed to go out of style.
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Volstead act
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Enforced the eighteenth amendment
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Al Capone
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Ruled Chicagos underworld with his small army of mobsters.
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Eliot ness
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Special agent hired by the federal prohibition bureau
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Untouchables
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Ness and his detectives.
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Twenty first amendment
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Prohibition acts
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Flappers
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Young women's 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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Legendary baseball player
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Jim Thorpe
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Talented athlete
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Charles Lindbergh
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Biggest celebrity of the 1920s
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Aimee Semple McPherson
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One of the most popular revivalists.
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