Roaring 20s
A popular form of music- Louis Armstrong
Jazz
Area in the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland
Dust Bowl
Yellow Journalism
Women gained the right to vote
19th Amendment
King of Steel
Andrew Carnegie
Fear that communists were going to take over the United States.
The Red Scare
The date the stock market crashed (Black Tuesday)
1929
Waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
18th Amendment
Outlawed business monopolies
Sherman Antitrust Act
Secretary of the Interior took bribes from oil companies- prime example of corruption
Teapot Dome Scandal
The term of Roosevelts program to fight the Great Depression
The New Deal
Believed the US needed a strong navy and naval bases throughout the world
Alfred T. Mahan
Abolished state poll taxes in federal elections
24th Amendment
Favoring native born Americans over immigrants
Nativism
Period of African American cultural creativity in music, art, and literature during the 1920's.
Harlem Renaissance
Created jobs by hiring writers and artists
Works Progress Adsministration
Plan to prevent Europeans from establishing new coloines in the Western Hemisphere
National voting age set at 18
26th Amendment
Philanthropist
This represented the clash between science and fundamental religion
Photographed the misery of the Great Depression
Dorothea Lange
Intercepted from Spanish ambassador critizicing from the President
De Lome Letter
Legalized a direct income tax
16th Amendment
Carngie's famous essay about the role of industrialization
Gospel of Wealth