Unit 4 Webquest Words


1. Henry Ford-did not originate the idea of mass production but he did introduce series of methods and ideas that revolutionized production.
2. Assembly Line-In two years the assembly line techniques reduced the time it took to manufacture a Model T from more than 12 hours to just 90 minutes.
3. Installment buying- Allowed Americans to own products they might otherwise have had to save up for years in order to buy.
4. Teapot dome Scandal- Scandal during the Harding administration in which the Secretary of the Interior leased government oil reserves to private oilmen in return for bribes.
5. Calvin Coolidge- was known as Silent Cal because he was quiet, honest, and frugal.
6. Kellog-Briand Pact-Congress favored the useless Kellog-Briand pact.
7. Dawes Plan-was arranged in 1924 enabling Germany to make reparation payments to Britain and France.
8. Scopes Trial- A trial that clashed fundamentalism and modernism in 1925.