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37 Cards in this Set
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Scientific management
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Businesses began experimenting with new ways of increasing productivity
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Frederick W. Taylor
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Early supporter of Scientific management
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Henry Ford
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Automobile manufacturer
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Model T
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1908 car a sturdy low cost automobile
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assembly line
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Faster way of producing mass amounts of goods
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Auto-touring
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going camping and on roadtrips
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Alfred P. Sloan
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Head of GM
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installment plan
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allowed people to pay for there cars over time
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planned obsolescence
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made new models to replace older models
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volstead act
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prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages
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Al Capone
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Most notorious gangster and bootlegger of all time
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Eliot Ness
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Tried to stop the gangsters from bootlegging
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Untouchables
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The group that Eliot Ness led
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Twenty-first Amendment
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Ended prohibition
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flappers
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adventurous independent and often career minded women they started wearing skimpier clothing
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Cecil B DeMille
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Movie director, introduced a new style of film making
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Babe Ruth
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Legendary baseball player
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Jim Thorpe
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Payed every intercollegiate sport offered in the 1920's
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Charles Lindbergh
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Biggest celebrity of the 1920's
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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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A protestant movement popular 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
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Jazz
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Originated among African Americans in the South
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Blues
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Another type of African American music in the 1920's
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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 greatest blues and trumpet players of the 1920's
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Bix Beiderbecke
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Wove jazz rhythms into his music
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Duke Ellington
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One the most famous jazz musicians of the 1920's
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Langston Hughes
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African American poet
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Harlem Renaissance
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Flourishing of African American musicians and artists
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Paul Robeson
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Critically successful actor who stared in Emperor Jones
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Rose McClendon
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Another leading actor of the 1920's
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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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Famous writer of the 1920's
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Lost Generation
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What the writers of the 1920's were called
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Wrote "The Great Gatsby" and "This Side of Paradise"
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