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P - Election of 1828
Herbert Hoover won the election against Alfred Smith -
E - Ford
Ford Automobiles was the leading car industry company. -
African American Identity - Marcus Garvey
Garvey advocated for black nationalism and African American racial pride. -
African American Identity - harlem renaissance
Some common themes represented during the Harlem Renaissance were the influence of the experience of slavery and emerging African-American folk traditions on black identity. -
E - Business boom started
This was an important time because the business boom separated classes and the wealthy were getting taxed less than the poor. -
P - Election of 1920
Republican Warren Harding was elected president. -
African American Identity - Jazz
Jazz music was primarily composed and performed by African Americans. -
C - Harlem Renaissance
African Americans contributed much to American society in the 1920s, and much of it stemmed from New York, near Harlem. Thus, the term Harlem Renaissance was coined. -
C - Jazz Music
Developments heightened the popularity of jazz music, for its modern feel and optimistic tune. -
C - Sexuality
Women - commonly referred to with the "flapper" term - became more adventurous and received more opportunities during this era of prosperity. -
C - Western Uncertainty
The disillusioning and deadly confrontation of WWI made many Western people question civilization as they knew it, prompting socialism to come to light. -
L - Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound was an American, poet, musician and critic who was a major figure in the Modernist movement in poetry. -
L - Langston Hughes
Poet of Harlem Renaissance who wrote of struggles of African Americans and discrimination as well as of pride in black identity -
L - Sinclair Lewis
Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature -
L - Ernest Hemmingway
Ernest Hemmingway was a Lost Generation writer who wrote The Sun Also Rises Often. -
C - Lost Generation
Many of the artists and writers and otherwise intellectual individuals born during the WWI era became known as the Lost Generation due to their cynical ideas and their fame that was lost to them due to the worldwide conflict. -
E - Bureau of Budget created
President Harding came up with this to hopefully put an end to excessive government spending and help the economy and their debt. -
P - Eugene Debs got out of Prison
Debs was a socialist leader who was sent to prison because he had violated the Espionage Act during World War I. -
African American Identity - Black Swan Records
This was the first American record label to consist of only African Americans. -
P - Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act Passed
Warren increased the tariff rate. -
African American Identity - Playwrights
African American playwright Willis Richardson debuted The Chip Woman's Fortune at the Frazee Theater - the first serious work by an African American to debut on Broadway. -
E - Kellogg Brand Pact created
This pact was important because it provided an international financial system under the Dawes and Young Plan -
P - Election of 1924
Calvin Coolidge was elected president -
E - Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday was when the New York Stock Exchange crashed and became the main factor that led to the Great Depression.
