Chapter 23

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Scientific management

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Theory promoted by Frederick W. Taylor; held that every kin of work could be broken into a series of smaller tasks and that rates of production could be set for each component task.

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Frederick W. Talyor

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An early supporter of scientific management. He 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 manufacturer that lowed 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. Created in 1908 that Ford made.

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Assembly line

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New production method to help production make good faster.

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Auto-touring

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Americans use their automobiles for camping and sightseeing vacations.

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Alfred P. Sloan

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Head of General Motors he explained the effect of car owners

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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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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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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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Hired by the federal prohibition bureau, he organized a top gang 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 Eliot 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 s new style of filmmaking marked by epic plots and complex characters.

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Babe Ruth

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Legendary baseball player

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Jim Thorpe

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Very talented athlete in college. He became the first competitor to win both the pentathlon and the decathlon. He then went on to a career on major-league baseball. He also played professional football for several years.

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Charles Lindbergh

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A pilot from Minnesota who flew airmail cargo planes between St. Louis and Chicago. He was the first pilot to fly nonstop from New York to Paris.

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Amelia Earhart

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First woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.

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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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Argued that traditional Christian doctrine should be accepted without question. They believed that every word of the Bible should be regarded as literally true.

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Clarence Darrow

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Chief defense attorney who was a famous criminal lawyer from Chicago.

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Scopes trial

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Trial of John Scopes, a high school science teacher who was prosecuted for teaching evolution.

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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; feature heartfelt lyrics and altered or slurred notes that echoed the mood of the lyrics.

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Bessie Smith

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Blues singer that brought blues music to a broader audience.

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Louis Armstrong

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Jazz musician that was very famous.

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Bix Beiderbecke

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Cornetist and pianist who wove jazz rhythms into his music.

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Langston Hughes

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African American poet.

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Duke Ellington

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Famous jazz musician.

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Harlem renaissance

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Period of great African American artistic accomplishment that began in the 1920's in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City.

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Paul Robeson

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Received praise for his title role in Eugene o'Neil's drama Emperor Jones

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Rose McClendon

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Another leading African American 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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A writer o middle class consumerism and the superficiality of the post war years in their works.

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Lost Generation

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A group of writers whose works reflected the horrors of the death and destruction of World War 1 and criticized consumerism ad superficiality in postwar society.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Another lost Generation writer.

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Alfred Stieglitz

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Helped popularize photography.

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Diego Rivera

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A major artist. A most prominent muralist.