The Jazz Age : 11/17/14 Flashcards
A 1925 survey conducted in ______ found out that __ out of __ families owned cars, but did not have _____ or ______ _____.
Indiana, 21, 26, bathtubs, running water
_____ _________, large-scale manufacturing done with machinery, made these changed possible by increasing supply and reducing costs.
Mass production
The _____ ______ ____ divided operations into simple tasks and cut unnecessary motion to a minimum.
Moving assembly line
In 1913, automaker ______ ____ installed the first moving assembly line at plant in ______ ___, __.
Henry Ford, Highland Park, MI
By 1925, a ____ car was rolling off the line every __ seconds.
Ford, 10
The _____ __ demonstrated the economic concept of _______, or how sensitive product demand is to price.
Model T, elasticity
By the mid 1920’s, _______ _____ and _______ competed successfully with _____.
General Motors, Chrysler, Ford
The ____ _______ also spurred growth in the production of s____, p_______, r______, p____ g____, n_____, and l____.
Auto industry, steel, petroleum, rubber, plate glass, nickel, lead
Americans bought new innovations such as e______ r_____, f______ t______, f_____ f_____, and h____ h____ c____.
Electric razors, facial tissues, frozen foods, home hair color
M_______, d_______, c________, and p_______ became popular products.
Mouthwash, deodorants, cosmetics, perfume
_____-_____ were introduced such as the e______ i____, v______ c______, w_____ m______, and r_______.
Labor-savers, electric iron, vacuum cleaners, washing machines, refrigerators
After the _____ ______ first successful flight in 1903, the _______ industry began developing.
Wright Brothers, aviation
Leading the way was _____ ______ who invented ______ - surface attached to wings that could be tilted to steer the plane.
Glenn Curtiss, ailerons
_______ made it possible to build rigid wings and much larger aircrafts.
Ailerons
In 1918 the _________ _____ introduced the world’s first _______ ______.
Postmaster general, airmail service
In 1925 Congress passed the _____ ___, authorizing postal officials to hire private airplane operators to carry mail.
Kelly Act
The ___ ______ ___ of _____ provided federal aid to build airports.
Air Commerce Act of 1926
In 1913 American Engineer _____ ________ invented a special circuit that made it practical to transmit sound via ____ - _____ ____/
Edwin Armstrong, long- range radio
In November 1920, the __________ _______ broadcast the news of ______’s landslide election victory from station _____ in _______.
Westinghouse Company, Harding, KDKA, Pittsburgh
In 1926 the _______ ___________ _____ ( ? ) set up a network of stations to broadcast daily radio stations.
National Broadcasting Company ( NBC )
In 1928 the _______ ___________ ______ ( ? ) assembled a coast-to-coast network of stations to rival NBC.
Columbia Broadcasting System ( CBS )
______ had been available before the 1920’s, but most Americans had considered debt shameful.
Credit
Americans bought _____ of their radios and ____ of their automobiles on the installment plan.
75 %, 60 %
Companies were split into divisions with functions such as _____, ________, and ________.
Sales, marketing, accounting
On average American farmers earned less than ______ of the income of other American workers.
One third
Technological advances in ________, ____ ______, and _____ __________ allowed them to produce more.
Fertilizers, seed varieties, farm machinery
Congress tried to help farmers by passing legislation to help farmers sell their ________, but President _______ vetoed the bills.
Surpluses, Coolidge
The _____-_______ ____ reflected the prejudices and fears of this era.
Sacco- Vanzetti Case
The police arrested ______ _____ and ______ _____, two Italian immigrants, for the crime of murder.
Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Newspapers revealed that the two men were ______, or people who oppose all forms of government.
Anarchists
The group that most wanted to restrict immigration was the ___ ____ _____.
Ku Klux Klan
The old ____ began in the South after the _____ ____ and used threats and violence to intimidate newly freed ______ ______.
KKK, Civil War, African Americans
The new Klan also targeted _____, ____, _______, and other groups said to be “ __-______. “
Catholics, Jews, immigrants, un- American
_______ __ ______, a former Methodist preacher, found the new KKK in ______, __ in 1915.
William J. Simmons, Atlanta, GA
In 1921 President _____ signed the _______ ______ ____ which restricted annual admission to the US by ethnic group.
Harding, Emergency Quota Act
In 1924, the _______ ______ ___ made immigration restriction a permanent policy.
National Origins Act
The law set ______ at ___ of each national group represented in the ___ _____ of ____.
Quotas, 2%, US Census, 1890
The _______ ______ ___ exempted natives of the ________ ___________ from the _____.
National Origins Act, Western Hemisphere, quotas
________ immigrants had already begun moving to the US due to the _________ _______ ___ of _____.
Mexican, Newlands Reclamation Act, 1902
The __________ __________ ___ funded irrigation projects in the _________ and led to the creation of _____ _____ that needed thousand of workers.
Newlands Reclamation Act, Southwest, large farms
