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Duke Ellington
famous jazz musician and band director during the Harlem Renaissance -
Louis Armstrong
Famous jazz trumpet player during the Harlem Renaissance -
The wright bothers
First flight -
The great migration
the movement of African Americans from the Southeast to the Northeast and Midwest -
Jacob Lawrence
famous painter that showed the story of the Great Migration -
Prohibition
The period alcohol was banned -
Race riots
occurred because of competition between blacks and whites for jobs -
The 18th Amendment
banned the making and selling of alcohol -
19th Amendment
Granted American women the right to vote on August 18, 1920 -
Harding
~supported Laissez- Faire as the economy boomed
~very nativist
~promised the American people " a return to normacly" -
Speakeasy
secret club that sold alcohol illegally during Prohibition -
Bootlegger
a person that illegally smuggled alcohol -
Tea pot dome scandal
President Harding had appointed personal friends as members for his cabinet. Some of these members were involved in government corruption such as the secretary of Interior leasing oil-rich land in return for bribes. -
Flappers
Women displaying their new found freedom by dressing more provocatively, smoking, drinking and speaking "unladylike" -
Coolidge
~Sworn in by his father at family home in Vermont
~"Silent Cal"
~believed in Laissez Faire and nativism
~famously said "the business of America is business" -
Harlem Renaissance
A literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that kindled a new black cultural identity in America -
Red scare
The often irrational fear of communism spreading in the United States -
Hoover
~pres during the Great Depression
~believed in "Rugged Individualism" and charity
~passed Hawley Smoot tariff - highest in U.S. history -
Mia's Birthday
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Mia's Graduation Date
