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Cards (35)

  • mass production
     a large scale of manufacturing done
  • assembly line
    divided operations into simple tasks
  • model T
    ford's assembly line product
  • welfare capitalism
    companies allowed workers to buy stock
  • charles lindbergh

    former airmail pilot
  • Open shop
    a workplace where employees were not required to join a union
  • what were people trying to build in the early 1900s
    powered airplanes
  • when was the first plane flown
    December 19th, 1903
  • who flown the first plane
    Wilburt and orville
  • in 1925 what act was passed

    the Kelly act
  • what did the Kelly act do
    let airplane operators carry mail
  • what act did the Congress pass in 1926
    commerce act
  • who made the amazing transatlantic solo flight
    Charles lineburg
  • in 1928 ___ airlines were serving ___ cities
    28,355
  • who invented a circuit that transmits sound via long range video
    Edwin armstrong
  • what broad casting company was set up in 1926
    NBC national broadcasting company
  • what station rivaled the NBC
    CBS
  • who had factory jobs during world war 1
    African americans
  • when the service men came back from war what happend
    african Americans and women got there jobs tooken
  • who was excluded from prosperity
    native ameircans
  • who cintued to come to the U.S
    europeans
  • what were most europeans
    farmers and factory workers
  • what eroded after the war ended
    traditional agriculture
  • whats made unions seem unnecessary
    benefit programs
  • most employees promoted to what
    open shops
  • what did American farmers not do in the 1920s
    share
  • what did farm workers earn
    less then 1/3 of profits
  • what allowed farmers to produce more
    fertilizers, seeds, farm machinary
  • what foods prices dropped dramatically
    corn and wheat
  • what happend in American agriculture
    quiet depression
  • what did the goverment urge farmers to do
    produce more to meet great needs in europe
  • what was the fordney mc cumber act
    markets not purchase American agriculture - prices plummetd more
  • what did the Congress propose every year
    the menary Haugen bill
  • what did the mcnary Haugen bill do
    tried to boost prices by buying the surpluses and selling them overseas
  • what did American farmers remain as in the1920s
    mired in recession