Ch 24 dual history

Machines replaced how many workers each year

200k workers

Availability of consumer goods increased as the what matured

as the industrial economy matured

Henry Ford did what

He made the standardized product the Model T and the moving assembly line

Bureaucratic management became divorced from what

from stockholder ownership

Labor Unions saw a decline in what

in numbers

What are three aspects of consumer culture?

role of advertising, credit and installment buying, and a new abundance and variety of goods available

What are 3 characteristics of labor in the 1920s?

3 of them are a productivity revolution based on technology, a consumer goods revolution, and a revolution in thinking, in which advertising persuaded consumers to buy rather than save

what was A “New Woman”?

a new woman was more assertive athletic and independent

Who was Charles Lindbergh

he thrilled the world with his solo non stop flight from Long Island NY to Paris

What was Jazz?

a complex blend of several older African American musical traditions used soulfulness and syncopated rhythm

How did nativists describe a future US without immigration laws?

they described it as a hybrid race of people as worthless and futile as the good for nothing mongrels of Central A and SE Europe (oh!)

Mexican Americans

they were recruited by american farmers in need of farm workers. they fled from poverty and the dislocation of revolution.

What was the national origins act of 1924?

it was the culmination of nativism. it was a significant shift historically. it put strict quotas on the number of immigrants allowed into the US every year. it set immigration policy for the next 40 years, reversing the three century old practice of virtually open immigration. it didn’t cut off foreign immigration completely.

the new Klan drew on the culture of what

drew on the culture of small town america, it was not an entirely small town organization

fundamentalism vs darwinism

the most celebrated public event of the fundamentalist modernist conflict was the scopes trial, which resulted in a guilty verdict and 100 fine

who was william jennings bryan

a former presidential candidate he became the spokesman against darwinism

textiles turned out to be the what

the harbingers of the nations economic fate after 1929