Politics & Economics
He vowed to return America to "normalcy" (mostly by grifting taxpayers, giving cabinet positions to his corrupt friends, having a mistress in the White House, and thankfully dying of a heart attack before the end of his first term)
Who was Warren G. Harding?
This was the event that really "caused" the Red Scare in the United States.
What was the Bolshevik (Communist) Revolution in Russia?
Infamous Chicago mobster responsible (but never officially charged) for the Valentines Day Massacre.
Who was Al Capone?
This was the movement north of African Americans during and before WWI that would be a catalyst for the Harlem Renaissance.
What was the Great Migration?
This was the actual LEGAL result of the Scopes trial.
What is Scopes was found guilty of teaching Darwin's theory and fined (but it was later reversed)?
He became president on the death of Harding, famously said: "the business of America is business" big fan of laissez-faire economics.
Who was Calvin "Silent Cal" Coolidge?
Xenophobia of foreigners mixed with "patriotism."
What is nativism?
This is the Amendment to the Constitution that brought us Prohibition.
What was the 18th Amendment?
He wrote "A Raisin in the Sun" and other famous poems - considered the greatest poet of the Harlem Renaissance and one of America's best as well.
Who was Langston Hughes?
With the rise of national media it was easier for regular Americans to become heroes (and villains) such as this famous pilot - first to fly solo across the Atlantic.
Who was Charles Lindbergh?
This peace pact, originally between 15 nations, was theoretically going to prevent another World War (it didn't).
What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
This duo was executed for murder (but mostly for being Italian immigrants and associated with an anarchist...)
Who were Sacco & Vanzetti?
The most famous "speakeasy" in Harlem was also a public nightclub.
What is the Cotton Club?
Often a critic of the NAACP and W.E.B. Du Bois this Jamaican immigrant to America started the Back to Africa Movement and the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
Who was Marcus Garvey?
Mass production of cars and other innovations by this method made them more affordable and able to be produce much faster.
What is the automated assembly line?
Mass media advertising, modern conveniences bought with credit, massive spending (and borrowing), the family car...all aspects of this phenomena that began in earnest in the 1920s - now standard practice in America.
What is consumerism?
Despite a burdensome and racist quota-based immigration system, this group of minorities actually benefited from the Coolidge administration - finally earning full citizenship.
Who were Native Americans?
She became the symbol of the 1920s "flapper," wife of the author of The Great Gatsby.
Who was Zelda Fitzgerald?
She wrote and performed "Backwater Blues" and was one of the most important voices of the Harlem Renaissance - and one of the highest paid performers in America.
Who was Bessie Smith?
Associating unions with these groups helped politicians like Calvin Coolidge end strikes like the Boston Police Strike and the Seattle General Strike.
What are communists/socialists?
Harding's Secretary of the Interior who stole public lands (with oil reserves) from the Navy and then sold them (for his own profit) to the Mammoth Oil Company, i.e. the Teapot Dome Scandal's bad guy.
Who was Albert Fall?
U.S. Attorney General responsible for promoting the Red Scare and the eventually creation of the FBI (after his house was bombed by Galleanists.)
Who was A. Mitchell Palmer?
Congress had to pass this Act to actually enforce the amendment giving us Prohibition.
What was the Volstead Act?
This was one of the primary impacts of the Harlem Renaissance for African-Americans (there are a few that I will count).
What are: recognition of African-American contributions to America (art, culture, etc.), better sense of equality (kinda), pride in being AA, voice based on shared experience, political solidarity?
Popular movement in mostly rural America that fought against the changes in post-war society by interpreting the Bible literally and trying to enforce rules (like not teaching evolution - which isn't in the Bible)
What is religious fundamentalism?