Movements
This group was reborn in the 1920's and discriminated against immigrants, Catholics, African Americans, and Jews.
KKK (Ku Klux Klan)
Women obtained this right with the 19th Amendment:
Suffrage (Ability to vote)
This program provided jobs for younger men who helped plant trees, clear ditches, build state/national parks, and make positive impacts to American nature.
CCC
Civilian Conservation Corps
Warren G. Harding.
Assembly-line manufacturing of automobiles, cheaper cars, and increased the wages of his workers.
Contributed to the economic boom.
Labor strikes, Bomb explosions, Palmer Raids, and the Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti contributed to what national panic?
Red Scare
Despite their service in WWI and contributions to American society, African Americans were still forced to deal with what kind of treatment?
Violence, Racial prejudice,
This program created dams and brought electricity to rural areas
TVA: Tennessee Valley Authority
This plan would send 200 million dollars to Germany to help repayment plans.
Dawes Plan
Soldiers return home and businesses turn from wartime to peacetime production.
Demobilization.
This movement led to the flowering of Black culture in the 1920's. It included new art, music, and literature.
Harlem Renaissance
This African American leader wished to create a "Back to Africa" movement. Urging African Americans to return to their ancestral home as a new colony.
Marcus Garvey
This program was the first attempt at trying to help farmers: I encouraged less planting, and to destroy excess livestock to help raise prices.
AAA
Agricultural Adjustment Act 1933
Republican Presidents looked to make what major changes during the 20's?
Higher Tariffs, Lower taxes for wealthy, and reducing regulations.
These two Italian born Anarchists were arrested and convicted of murder:
Sacco and Vanzetti
Large numbers of African American Families are heading to Northern Cities, in response to employment opportunities/ continued racial violence in south.
The Great Migration
Women who were rebellious, "independent", smoked cigarettes, danced and drank out on the town in their loose fitting clothes were known as:
Flappers
I helped provide a "safety net" to unemployed, retired Americans. Still impactful today:
Social Security Act.
This act helped promote peace between 15 nations. Offensive war is bad, you can only protect your self!
Kellogg-Briand Act
Describe one of the causes of the Dust-Bowl.
Drought.
Cutting up grass.
What was the significance of the Scopes Trial?
Religious fundamentalists challenging the teaching of evolution in schools.
This African American leader believed that equality should be demanded RIGHT NOW!
W.E.B. Dubois.
This program set prices, limited production, set a 40-hour work week, and a national minimum wage. Was deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
NRA (National Recovery Act) 1934
List one of the pieces of legislation from the 20's used as "Anti-Immigrant" or pro nativist beliefs
National Origins Act
This agreement between several countries outlined a lessening of Battleships/. (1921)
Washington Naval Conference.