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Chapter 7: Times of Plenty, Times of Hardship Lesson 1: An Industrial Nation.

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2 Chapter 7: Times of Plenty, Times of Hardship Lesson 1: An Industrial Nation

3 Assembly Line 4 system in which workers stand in one place and put parts together as the pieces go by on a moving belt 4 an example: The Model T car

4 Mass Production 4 the making of large quantities of goods that are exactly alike

5 Mass Media 4 public forms of communication that reaches large audiences 4 example: radio

6 Lesson 2: The Roaring Twenties

7 Prohibition 4 ban on the sale of alcohol

8 Eighteenth Amendment 4 amendment that outlawed the making, sale, and transporting of alcoholic beverages

9 Twenty-first Amendment 4 amendment that ended Prohibition

10 jazz 4 musical form that was influenced by African American traditions

11 Harlem Renaissance 4 period in which artists used writing, music, and painting to share their ideas and feelings about life for African Americans

12 Lesson 3: The Good Times End

13 Unemployment 4 the condition of being out of work

14 Stock Market 4 place where stocks are bought and sold

15 Great Depression 4 worst period of economic hardship in United States history

16 Credit 4 A way to Borrow Money

17 Lesson 4: The New Deal

18 New Deal 4 programs to help the country out of the Great Depression

19 Social Security 4 program that provides monthly payments to the elderly, disabled, and unemployed

20 drought 4 long period without rain

21 Dust Bowl 4 area of the Great Plains affected by dust storms

22 Migrant worker 4 a worker who moves from place to place to harvest crops

23 inflation 4 is rapid rise in prices


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