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Mass Production

Production of goods in large numbers through the is of machinery and assembly lines

Factories; produce

Assembly Line

Arrangement of equipment and workers in which work passes from operation to operation in direct line until the product is assembled.

Conveyor Belt

Installment Buying

Method of purchase in which maker makes a small down-payment and then pays off the rest of the debt in regular monthly payments

Monthly

Buying on Margin

System of buying stocks in which a buyer pays a small percentage of the purchase price while the broker advances the rest

Stocks

Teapot Dome Scandal

Scandal during the Harding administration in which the Secretary of the Interior leased government oil reserves to private oilmen in return for bribes.

Secretary

Dates Plan

Agreement in which the United States loaned money to Germany, allowing Germany to make reparation payments to Britain and France.

The Brits and the French

Scopes Trial

1952 trial of a Tennessee school-teacher for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.

1952 Trial

Quota System

Arrangement that limited the number of immigrants who could enter the United States from specific countries.

Immigrants

Ku Klux Klan

Organization that promotes hatred and doscrimi action against specific ethnic groups and religious groups

Stupid ********

Prohibition

The forbidding by law of the manufacture, transport, and sale of alcohol

ALCOHOL

18th Amendment

Banned the making, selling, or transporting of alcoholic beverages in the US.

Later repealed in the 21st Amendment

Volstead Act

Law enacted by Congress to enforce the 18th Amendment.

18th Amendment

Fundamentalism

Movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles.

Basic Principles

Bootleggers

One who sells illegal alcohol

Oooooooooooo

Flapper

Young woman from the 1920s who defied traditional rules of conduct and dress

NAH FOOL, I'M DOING ME PADRE

Jazz

American musical form developed by African Americans, based on improvisation and blending blues, ragtime, and European-based popular music

My jam 👌👌👌

Harlem Renaissance

Period during the 1920s in which African American novolists, poets, and artists celebrated their culture.

Culture

Henry Ford

Introduced a series of methods and ideas that revolutionized production, wages, working conditions, and daily life.

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