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36 Cards in this Set
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Scientific Management
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A new approach for science
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Frederick W. Taylor
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Early supporter of the scientific management theory
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Henry Ford
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Automobile manufacturer who lowered the cost of his cars.
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Model T
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A sturdy low cost car
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Assembly Line
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New production method to make production go faster
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Auto-Touring
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A new craze made so that Americans could enjoy the fresh air of the countryside
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Alfred P. Sloan
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Head of GM who explained to Americans the effect of buying a second car
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Installment Plan
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Plans that allowed consumers to pay for their cars over time
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Planned Obsolescence
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Where car manufacturers replaced old cars with new ones
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Volstead Act
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Enforced the Eighteenth Amendment, which banned alcohol all together
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Al Capone
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Famous mobster who ruled Chicago's underworld
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Eliot Ness
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Special agent hired to stem crime with his team of top detectives.
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The Untouchables
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What Ness and his detectives were named
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Flappers
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New traditions for women. Bobbed hair, drove cars, and participated in sports
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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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Had an outstanding season during the 1920's
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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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