Chapter 23

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Scientific management

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New approache that began experimenting with new ways of increasing productivity

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Frederick W. 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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Henry ford

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Automobile manufactureLowered 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 was developed by 1908

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The 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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A new craze, were millions of Americans participated in. Taking part in this new pastime, Americans used their automobiles for camping and sightseeing vacations.

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Alfred P. Sloan

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Head of GM, explained the effect of car owners buying a second car.

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Installments plan

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To allow average consumers to buy his more expensive cars, Sloan offered it.

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Planned obsolescence

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Automobile manufactures were among the first to adopt planned obsolescence

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Volstead act

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Federal law that enforced the eighteenth amendment (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 top squad of young detectives to go after gangsters.

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Untouchables

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Ness and hi friends' nickname. Ness ended Capone's reign over the Chicago underworld in 1931.

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Twenty first amendment

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In 1933 , constitutional amendment that ended prohibition by repealing the eighteenth amendment

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Cecil B. DeMille

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Introduced a new style of filmmaking marked by epic plots and complex characters. He created biblical epics.

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Babe truth

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Legendary player of White Sox was expelled by Landis

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Jim Thorpe

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He Played every intercollegiate sport offered at his school. Few Athletes of the 1920s had more talent than him

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Charles Lindbergh

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Young, clean-cut pilot from Minnesota, was probably the biggest celebrity of the 1920s.

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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 Semple McPherson

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Was one of the most popular revivalists, she combined a strong Christian message with the glamour of Hollywood

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Fundamentalism

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Protestant religious movement that teaches that traditional Christian 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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1915 trial of John scopes, a high school science teacher who was prosecuted for teaching evolution

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Blues

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Jazz-influenced music that grew out of the slave music and religious spirituals, featured heartfelt lyrics and altered or slurred notes that echoed the mood of the lyrics

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Bessie smith

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Brought blues music to a broader audience, in the early 1920s

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Louis Armstrong

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Began to adopt some of its unique characteristics. Jazz musicians re-created the vocal traditions of blues music.

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Big Beiderbecke

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Wove jazz rhythms into their music

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Duke Ellington

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The most famous jazz musician of the era

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Langton Hughes

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Jazz music expressed the sadness, pain, and joy of black America. He was an African American poet who noted that jazz proclaimed to be proud of being negro.

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Harlem renaissance

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The flourishing of artistic development on the 1920s

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Paul Robeson

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One of the most critically successfully actors of the 1920s who received praise for his title role on Eugene O'Neill's drama Emperor Jones.

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Rose McClendon

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Was another leading African American actor of the 1920s , the first who won fame n the 1926 production Deep River.

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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 who scorned middle class consumerism and the superficiality of the postwar years in his works.

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Lost generation

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Era of the writers

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Was another lost generation writer, his novels chronicled the jazz age

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Alfred Stieglitz

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Helped popularize photography. Photography came to be widely appreciated as an art form in the 1900s.

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Diego Rivera

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Artist that visited the US in the early 1930s to paint murals