The Jazz Age Notes Flashcards
A 1925 survey conducted in Indiana found that 21 out of 26 families owned ____ did not have _____ with running water.
cars
bathtubs
Mass production, large-scale manufacturing done with machinery, made these changes possible by increasing ______ and reducing _______.
supply
costs
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 a plant in Highland Park, MI.
Henry Ford
By 1925, a ford car was rolling off the line every ______.
10 seconds
The _______ demonstrated the economic concept of _______, or how sensitive product demand is to price.
Model T
elasticity
By the mid-1920, _______ and _______ competed successfully with Ford.
General Motors
Chrysler
The _______ also spurred growth in the production of steel, petroleum, rubber, plate glass, nickel, and lead.
auto industry
_____ bought new innovations such as electric razor, facial tissues, frozen foods, and home hair color.
Americans
Mouthwash, deodorants, cosmetics, and perfumes became popular ______.
products
_______ were introduced such as the electric iron, vacuum cleaners, washing machines, refrigerators.
Labor-savers
After the Wright Bros first successful flight in 1903, the ______ industry began developing.
aviation
Leading the way was ________ who invented ________-surfaces attached to wings that could be tilted to steer the plane.
Glenn Curtiss
ailerons
_______ made it possible to build rigid wings and much larger aircraft.
Ailerons
In 1918 the _________ introduced the world’s first airmail service.
postmaster general
In 1925 Congress passed the ________, authorizing postal officials to hire private airplane operators to carry mail.
Kelly Act
The ______ 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 long-range radio.
Edwin Armstrong
In November 1920, the ______ broadcast the news of Harding’s landslide election victory from station KDKA in Pittsburg.
Westinghouse Company
In 1926 the ______ set up a network of stations to broadcast daily radio programs.
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 1920s, but most Americans had considered debt shameful.
Credit
Americans bought 75% of their radios and 60% of their automobiles on the ______.
installment plan
______ were split into divisions with functions such as sales, marketing, and accounting.
Companies
On average they earned less than ____ of the income of other American workers.
1/3
_______ in fertilizers, seed varieties, and farm machinery allowed them to produce more.
Technological advances
Congress tried to help farmers by passing _______ to help farmers sell their surpluses, but President _______ vetoed the bill.
legislation
Coolidge
The ______ case reflected the prejudices and fears of this era.
Sacco-Vanzetti
The police arrested _____ and ______, two italian immigrants, for the crime.
Nicole Sacco
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
______ revealed that the two men were ______, or people who oppose all forms of government.
Newspapers
anarchists
The group that most wanted to restrict immigration was the _______.
Ku Klux Klan
The old KKK began in the South after the Civil War and used threats and violence to intimidate newly freed ________.
African Americans
The new Klan also targeted ______, ______, ________, and other groups of said to be “un-American”
Catholics, Jews, immigrants
_______ a former circuit-riding Methodist preacher, founded the new KKK in Atlanta, GA in 1915.
William J. Simmons
In 1921 President _______ signed the ______ which restricted annual admission to the US by ethnic group.
Harding
Emergency Quota Act
