Day One and Two
introduced the “Return to Normalcy” agenda which included. • encouraging free enterprise • limiting government regulations on private businesses • reducing income taxes • raising tariffs on foreign imports
Who was President Harding?
Helped make cars more affordable?
Who was Henry Ford?
A type of music that originated from the African American community and became popular across the nation during the 1920's
What was Jazz music?
embraced a bold lifestyle that went against traditional social norms by wearing shorter skirts and bobbed hair.
What were flappers?
organization that attacked African Americans and was revived in the 1920's and now attacked Catholics, Jews, and immigrants.
What was the KKK?
one of Harding's cabinet members was caught accepting bribes from private oil companies • This scandal caused citizens to lose trust in the federal government and its leaders
What was Teapot Dome?
workers at a station add to a product as the item moves along a conveyor belt. Helps speed up production and make things cheaper.
What is an assembly line?
millions of African Americans left the rural south and relocated North.
What was the Great Migration?
Writers like F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway who saw little hope for society after WWI.
Who were the Lost Generation?
Americans were fearful that communists would spread their radical ideas into the United States.
What was the Red Scare?
Refrigerators • Vacuum cleaners • Ready-made clothes • Radio • Telephones • Motion pictures
What is new technological innovations from the 1920's
allowed consumers who didn’t have the available cash to make purchases on credit and pay the debt off over time
What is an installment plan?
escape the South strict Jim Crow caste system. Search for better job oppertunities.
What were the reasons for the Great Migration?
A trial where a school teacher was arrested for teaching evolution in school. Showed a divide between traditional and modern values.
What was the Scopes Trial?
A concept that suggested that people in lower social classes were weak. Led to the U.S limiting immigration into the United States.
What was social darwinism?
flew the first transatlantic solo flight from New York to Paris and showed that air travel was an acceptable form of transportation
Who was Charles Lindbergh?
led to the establishment of speakeasies and fueled the growth of organized crime
named after the neighborhood in NYC. Became the center of a literary and artisitic movement the celebrated African American expierence.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
considered the birthplace of modern music industry.
What was Tin Pan Alley?
What was the Palmer Raids?
Something that measures how much better and easier it is to live
What is the standard of living?
repealed the Eighteenth Amendment
What is the 21st Amendment?
founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), an organization that promoted economic independence and cultural pride and encouraged descendants of enslaved Africans to return to Africa
Who was Marcus Garvey?
two lawyers who participated in the Scopes Trial.
William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow
limited the number of foreign born individuals from Southern and Eastern Europe.
What were immigration quotas?