https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv Made with a warm hug en-us 2017-02-27 15:27:38 UTC 2025-12-15 06:19:21 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Rafaelo.png mizzarjay https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156443541 The manufacture of goods in large quantities by machinery and by use of techniques such as the assembly line and division of labor.]]> 2017-02-27 15:35:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156443541 mizzarjay https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156443886 a system for purchasing merchandise, such as cars or furniture, in which the buyer takes possession of the merchandise on payment of a deposit and completes the purchase by paying a series of regular instalments while the seller retains ownership until the final instalment is paid.]]> 2017-02-27 15:36:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156443886 mizzarjay https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156444009 the act or practice of calling public attention to one's product, service, need, etc., especially by paid announcements in newspapers and magazines, over radio or television, on billboards.]]> 2017-02-27 15:37:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156444009 mizzarjay https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156444319 Americans were overwhelmed by the rise of a modern consumer culture. In response, many of the bitter cultural tensions that had divided Americans had begun to subside. The growth of exciting new opportunities to buy cars, appliances, and stylish clothing made the country's cultural conflicts seem less significant. The collapse of the new economy at the decade's end would generate economic debates as intense as the cultural conflicts of the early and mid-1920s.]]> 2017-02-27 15:37:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156444319 mizzarjay https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156444729   A line of factory workers and equipment along which a product being assembled passes consecutively from operation to operation until completed. Note: Assembly lines are found in many industries but are particularly associated with automobile manufacturing.]]> 2017-02-27 15:38:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156444729 mizzarjay https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156445709 a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.]]> 2017-02-27 15:40:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156445709 mizzarjay https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156445835  was founded in 1915 by William J. Simmons, an ex-minister and promoter of fraternal orders; its first meeting was held on Stone Mt., Ga. The new Klan had a wider program than its forerunner, for it added to "white supremacy" an intense nativism and anti-Catholicism (it was also anti-Semitic) closely related to that of the Know-Nothing movement of the middle 19th cent. Consequently its appeal was not sectional, and, aided after 1920 by the activities of professional promoters Elizabeth Tyler and Edward Y. Clarke, it spread rapidly throughout the North as well as the South. It furnished an outlet for the militant patriotism aroused by World War I, and it stressed fundamentalism in religion.]]> 2017-02-27 15:41:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156445835 mizzarjay https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156445935 a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants. 2 : the revival or perpetuation of an indigenous culture especially in opposition to acculturation.]]> 2017-02-27 15:41:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156445935 mizzarjay https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156447388  fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign.]]> 2017-02-27 15:44:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156447388 mizzarjay https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156447477 The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920. This “scare” was caused by fears of subversion by communists in the United States after the Russian Revolution.]]> 2017-02-27 15:44:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156447477 mizzarjay https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156447657 is the illegal business of transporting (smuggling) alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law. Smuggling is usually done to circumvent taxation or prohibition laws within a particular jurisdiction.]]> 2017-02-27 15:44:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156447657 mizzarjay https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156447843 A form of American music that grew out of African-Americans' musical traditions at the beginning of the twentieth century. Jazz is generally considered a major contribution of the United States to the world of music.]]> 2017-02-27 15:44:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156447843 mizzarjay https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156447936 a blind pig or blind tiger, is an illicit establishment that sells alcoholic beverages. Such establishments came into prominence in the United States during the Prohibition era (1920–1933, longer in some states).]]> 2017-02-27 15:45:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156447936 mizzarjay https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156448006  a criminal who is a member of a gang. Some gangs are considered to be part of organized crime. Gangsters are also called mobsters, a term derived from mob and the suffix -ster.]]> 2017-02-27 15:45:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156448006 mizzarjay https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156448080 an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1918, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages for consumption: repealed in 1933.]]> 2017-02-27 15:45:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156448080 mizzarjay https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156448210 The trial of John Scopes, a high school teacher in Tennessee, for teaching the theory of evolution in violation of state law. The trial was held in 1925, with eminent lawyers on both sides — William Jennings Bryan for the prosecution and Clarence Darrow for the defense.]]> 2017-02-27 15:45:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156448210 mizzarjay https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156448392  were a generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.]]> 2017-02-27 15:45:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156448392 mizzarjay https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156448494 is the process where an increasing percentage of a population lives in cities and suburbs. This process is often linked to industrialization and modernization, as large numbers of people leave farms to work and live in cities.]]> 2017-02-27 15:46:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156448494 mizzarjay https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156448756 A literal belief in the biblical account of Creation as it appears in the Book of Genesis. Creationists believe that the creation of the world and all its creatures took place in six calendar days; they therefore deny the theory of evolution.]]> 2017-02-27 15:46:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156448756 mizzarjay https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156448987 a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
typically criticize excessive alcohol consumption, promote complete abstinence (teetotalism), or use its political influence to press the government to enact alcohol laws to regulate the availability of alcohol or even its complete prohibition.]]> 2017-02-27 15:47:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mizzarjay/u7nf8hirtjnv/wish/156448987