Chapter 22 test Flashcards
Assembly line
Production technique that helped factories turn out goods faster
The economy prospered in the 1920s for the following reasons
- Abundant energy supplies
- Probusiness policies
- The assembly line
Scientific management
Used efficiency experts to identify ways to make business work more productively
Consumerism
Encouraged by advertising, merchandising, and buying on credit
Most Americans turned to
Radio and movies for entertainment during the 1920s
Jim Thorpe
Native American athlete whose semiprofessional baseball career led to the loss of the medal he won in the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon
The first person to fly nonstop across the Atlantic was
Charles Lindbergh
Flappers
“New Women” of the 1920s who enjoyed economic independence and challenged conventional behavior
Prohibition
Attempted to fight urban problems by banning alcoholic beverages
Aimee Semple McPherson’s followers were
Modest-income urban people
Fundamentalists believed in
The following literal interpretations of the Bible
The conflict between religious and scientific values was
Exposed by the Scopes trial
Jazz
Expressed the emotions of African Americans and influenced other forms of music
Rose McClendon
African American actor who directed plays at the Harlem Experimental Theatre
The following artists participated in the Harlem Renaissance
- Musician “Jelly Roll” Morton
- Actor Paul Robeson
- Poet Langston Hughes
The Harlem Renaissance come about because of a
Growing sense of black pride
Gertrude Stein used the label Lost Generation to refer to
Writers who had grown angry and bitter during the postwar years
Mexican muralists
Artists who praised the common people and emphasized Native American traditions
Planned obsolescence
Process and intentionally designing products to go out of style
Many agree that the mass media and mass marketing helped
- Create a standardized middle-class culture
- Change the middle class values
- Strengthen ethic traditions
