POSTWAR ECONOMY
This person used the assembly line to create the Model T's/made it easier for the public to buy an automobile.
Who was Henry Ford?
Wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God". About a black women's search for fulfillment
Who was Zora Neale Hurston?
Leading African American jazz musician during the Harlem Renaissance; he was a talented trumpeter whose style influenced many later musicians. Came from New Orleans and helped promote the rise of Jazz. “The Saints Go Marching In”
Who was Louis Armstrong?
This act posed an extremely high tariff on farm products and manufactured goods.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?
President of the U.S. during the 1920's and Great Depression; called the "Do Nothing" president.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
A steady rise in the stock market over a period of time.
What is the Bull Market?
Writers that responded to the growing sense of conformity. Some writers became so disillusioned with post-war America (intolerance, materialism; unspiritual), they moved to Europe
What is the Lost Generation?
An American writer known for his depictions of American life in the 1920's. He often described the wealth of those living during this time. He is most famous for his book, "The Great Gatsby".
Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald?
Ushered in a period of time known as Prohibition during which the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages was illegal.
What is the 18th Amendment?
Sensational 1925 court case in which a biology teacher was tried for teaching evolution in violation of Tennessee law.
What is the Scopes Trial?
Buying on credit plan that enabled people to buy goods over an extended period without having to put down much money at the time of purchase.
What is installment buying?
Young free-thinking women who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the 1920s.
Who were Flappers?
An influential poet and writer who thought of his work as a means to communicate the Black experience in the United States.
Who was Langston Hughes?
Repealed Prohibition laws in the United States.
What is the 21st Amendment?
He started his presidency off with the First Hundred Days, which was the beginning of the New Deal. During this period, FDR and congress passed hundreds of bills that promoted social welfare and initiated programs coined alphabet soup programs.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Buying stock by paying only a portion of the full cost up-front with promises to pay the rest later.
What is buying on the margin?
The flowering of African American artistic activity during the 1920s in the Harlem community of New York City.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
An American novelist who frequently wrote about migratory farmworkers and other laborers during the Great Depression.
Who was John Steinbeck?
A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
Region in the central Great Plains that was hit by a severe drought, caused farmers to default on their loans and move to other parts of the country (mainly California).
What is the Dust Bowl?
The production of large quantities of a standardized article (often using assembly line techniques)
What is mass production?
A place where alcoholic drinks were sold and consumed illegally during prohibition.
What are speakeasies?
An American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English. He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians, and contemporary movements. Most known for his commentary on the Scopes Trial.
Who was H.L. Mencken?
1928 agreement in which many nations agreed to outlaw war.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
Period lasting from 1929-1941 in which the US economy faltered and unemployment soared.