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Labor problems
During the war farmers had borrowed so much money and now they're in debt. -
Energy technologies
Oil and electricity were expanding and was the main source for a lot of our needs. -
Farmers
Farmers went into debt after the war with the over spending and borrowing -
Labor problems
Wages were unfair compared to the hours people would work. People demanded for better pay -
Entertainment
Newspaper were their one source of entertainment until radios came out and theaters -
Impacts of auto mobiles
the impact of automobiles improved and made life a little faster -
Scopes Trial
violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.[1] -
Case of Sacco and Vanzetti
Italian-born American anarchists who were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the April 15, 1920, armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States. -
Prohibition
Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages -
Prohibition violence
bootlegging occurred
gangs formed with rebellion -
Nativisn
a group of people who didnt want immigrants invading ad stealing their profits and jobs -
Harding's Domestic Policy
Reduction in income tax
Increase in Tariff tax
Establishment of the Bureau of Budget -
Jazz Age
High school and college youth kids shower their rebellion by dancing to jazz music. -
Harding's Presidency
Harding made some very smart decisions when he became president like make William Taft as the Chief Justice and people from his party he filled in the seats of the Cabinet . -
Women at home
Most middle class women didn't have a job and they were still staying at home to work like they did in the day. Poorer women were the ones who would work the most. -
Women in cities
Women in the work force hadn't change much.They had limited jobs like teachers or nurses and etc. The variety was very few. -
Modernist
A mixture of influences that defined their new faith in many ways. They studied the bible and was very critical about it but they found a way to believe in Darwinism without questioning their faith of god. -
Fundamentalism
The opposite of Modernist and though that every word in the bible should be taken seriously. -
Revivalist
Revivalist use the radio and music to revive the religion. -
Ernest Hemingway
Economic and understated style
novelist and short story -
Sinclair Lewis
Play writer
american short story novelist -
Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic, as well as a major figure in the early modernist movement -
T.S Elliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM was a British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets" -
Ford
With the success production of auto mobile the rise of this production was thriving -
Quota Laws
restricted immigration into the United States. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
Scandals of business like Fall had accepted bribes for oil leases in Wyoming.
Daugherty also took bribes for not prosecuting certain criminals. -
Election of 1924
Democratic- John W. Davis
Republican-Coolidge
Liberals- La Follette
Coolidge won but not much was done in the White House because of the budgeting and the eyes all on them about the spending of the government money. -
Marcus Garvey
Developed political ideas of black nationalism
Black start steam shop stock that led to fraud and he was later jailed and sent back -
Election of 1928
Hoover vs Smith
Smith attracted a lot of immigrants but not a lot liked the idea that he was a Roman Catholic so Hoover won by a landslide with his promise of the continuation of the Coolidge ideas. -
Black Thursday and Tuesday
The stocks started fluctuating on a Thursday and completely crashed losing millions on that next Tuesday -
Herbert Hoover policies
Boulder Canyon Project Act
Mandated the construction of a massive dam -
Herbert Hoover Policies
Federal Farm Board A body created to loan money to farmers to create and strengthen farm cooperatives -
Stock Market Crash
the overspending and the overconfidence of the production and economy -
Harlem Renaissance
Poets and musicians that were African American use their talent to express their feelings of their treatment. It was making a stand. -
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem section in New York city was the largest group of African Americans
Their way of living and making a living was very poor but through this movement they were able to improve it. It wasn't all the way improved but it was getting there. -
Louis Armstrong
Jazz musician and artist -
Langston Hughes
An African American poet -
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Work that illustrated the Jazz age -
1933 Federal Securities Act
Required corporations to provide complete information of all stock offerings and made them liable for misrepresentations -
1933 National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Establish codes of fair competition -
1933 National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
Provided money to states to create jobs; it was struck down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional on the ground that it gave legislative powers to the executive branch and that the enforcement of industry codes within states went beyond the federal government's constitutional powers to regulate interstate commerce -
1933 Emergency Banking Relief Act (EBRA)
Roosevelt declared a bank holiday and closed down all the banks to be inspected. Those that were considered stable could reopen while others that were in financial crisis would remained closed or they could obtained loans if necessary -
1933 Civil Works Administration (CWA)
Provided work in federal jobs -
1933 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Provided jobs for single males on conservation projects -
1933 Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
Raise crop prices by lowering production and paying farmers to leave a certain amount of every acre of land unseeded; declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court on the ground that agriculture is a local matter and thus, the power to regulate agriculture should be given to states rather than federal government (States vs. Federal Government goes way back to the Constitutional Convention in which Alexander Hamilton supported Federal Power while Thomas Jefferson supported States Power) -
1933 Glass-Steagall Act
Created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corportation (FDIC), which protected bank deposits up to $5,000, thus reassuring the Americans that their money were safe -
1934 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
was created to govern securities transactions on the secondary market, after issue, ensuring greater financial transparency and accuracy and less fraud or manipulation. -
Banking act of 1935
Created seven-member oard to regulate the nation's money supply and the interest rates on loans -
1935 National Youth Administration (NYA)
Provided job training for unemployed young people and part-time jobs for needy students -
1935 Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Quickly created as many jobs as possible -
dust bowl
in the Great Plains
farmers lose their jobs -
dust bowl 2
John Steinbeck wrote the Grapes or Wrath describing the economic change -
1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDC)
Required manufacturers to list ingredients in foods, drugs, and cosmetic products
