Chapter 14 Flashcards
scientific management
every kind of work can be broken into a series of smaller tasks
What 2 things did Henry Ford invent?
- Model T
- assembly line
assembly line
production system created by Henry Ford to make goods faster by moving parts on a conveyor belt past workers
auto-touring
craze that encouraged Americans to take long sightseeing trips in their automobiles
What were Americans’ daily lives like after automobiles became more available?
- cars replaced horse-drawn vehicles
- more social opportunities
- auto-touring
Alfred P. Sloan
head of General Motors (GM); explained the effect of car owners buying a second car
installment plan
plans that allowed consumers to pay for their cars over time
How did the economic boom affect consumers and American businesses?
- pro-business policies like tax cuts
- wages increased
- more electricity in homes
- new products and electrical appliances
- encouraged investment
The _________ industry was the nation’s biggest business and consumed huge quantities of _____, ______, and ______
- automobile
- glass, rubber, steel
What made Henry Ford different from other bosses?
- shortened workday
- raised employee wages
- regulated the morality and personal behavior of his workers (opposed tobacco and alcohol)
Volstead Act
enforced the 18th Amendment
18th Amendment
made the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol illegal
Al Capone
Chicago gang leader; committed bootlegging to control all liquor sales
Eliot Ness
special agent hired by the Federal Prohibition Bureau to catch Al Capone
Untouchables
Eliot Ness and his top squad of young detectives
How did the new youth culture of the 1920s represent change?
- new style of dress
- music
- movie theaters
- dancing
- college enrollment increased
Jim Thorpe
one of the best athletes of the 1900s; the first competitor to win both the pentathlon and the decathlon; played professional football and baseball
Charles Lindberg
the first pilot to fly nonstop from New York to Paris (33.5 hours)
Amelia Earhart
the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean
Fundamentalism
a Protestant movement that argued that traditional Christian doctrine should be accepted and the Bible is literally true
How did jazz music spread to the rest of the world?
many of New Orleans’s most noted jazz musicians moved northward to Chicago and New York
jazz
music that originated among African American musicians in the south
Louis Armstrong
famous New Orleans jazz musician
What city was an early center for the development of jazz?
New Orleans
