Decline of Progressive Reform
The head of the National Woman's Party in 1923 who worked for an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution to end state and national laws that discriminated against women.
Alice Paul
The decade that produced the first mass culture through Hollywood films.
1920s
A pseudo-scientific discipline consistent with Social Darwinist theories that provided evicence of racial and gender superiority that contributed to immigration restriction and sterilization laws.
Eugenics
Thesis of the book The Man Nobody Knows that was used as a description of Jesus Christ.
The Eighteenth Amendment prohibited what?
Prohibted the MANUFACTURE or SALE of alcohol (it was still legal to possess alcohol just not sell it)
Name 2 of the artists that were part of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s.
Arna Bontemps
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Ethel Waters
Oscar Micheaux
Young biology teacher in Tennessee who taught evolution and set the stage for the "Monkey Trial".
John Thomas Scopes
Name 2 authors who moved abroad becaue of their disgust with American materialistic culture of the 1920s.
T.S. Eliot
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernst Hemingway
He brought the Universal Negro Imrovement Association to New York and advocated black economic cooperation, founded a chain of grocery stores, the Black Cross Nurses, and the Black Star Steamship Line. Also encouraged African Americans to "return to Africa"
Marcus Garvey
MAde the car available for almost all AMericans by standardizing parts and creating a truly economical mode of transportation.
Henry Ford
Theory that many Americans in the 1920s believed was responsible for a breakdown in manners and morals and that would have laws passed to forbid its teaching.
Theory of evolution
Wrote book titled The Man Nobody Knows and was in part responsible for the conditioning of Americans to want more and more by seling the idea that Jesus Christ was the greated ad-man of all time.
Bruce Barton
Republican President of the U.S. in 1921 who gave jobs in Washington to his friends and had major issues with corruption in his administration by having deals with oil companies, and swindling of hospital supplies.
Warren G. Harding
2 inventions that transformed leisure in America that transcended racial and economic lines
The radio and automobiles
What was the purpose of building levees along the Mississippi River and was it successful? Why or why not.
The levees were intended to allow farmers to settle and farm the rich floodplains of the river.
The Great Flood of 1927
Worker types that were hit hard during the twenties since their labor unions and jobs had been crushed after World War 1.
Tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and industrial workers
Became President after Warren G. Harding's death and was criticized for his reluctance to prosecute the scandals int he Harding administration. Known for his hands off attitude toward big business.
Calvin Coolidge
his motto was "Keep Cool with Coolidge"
How did technological innovations affect mass consumption and the standardization of American culture?
Buck v. Bell
Carrie Buck and sisster Doris
What led tot he Stock Market Crash of 1929?
Americans were buying stock on margin or credit.
Rederao Reserve tried slowing infflation of stocks by increasing the interest rate on Federal Reserve notes, but speculation continued.