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W.E.B. Du Bois was at the forefront of the civil rights movement, he went to New York to discuss the challenges facing the black community, and in 1903, Du Bois published his seminal work, The Souls of Black Folk, a collection of 14 essays.
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The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act raised the United States’s already high tariff rates.
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The Great Migration, or the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1970, had a huge impact on urban life in the United States.
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Marcus Garvey encouraged African Americans to create and develop a separate society and come together to stand up against racial injustice, also in 1918, Garvey began publishing the widely distributed newspaper Negro World to convey his message.
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The ratification of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors, ushered in a period known as Prohibition.
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The Seattle General Strike of February 1919 was the first city-wide labor action in America to be proclaimed a “general strike”.
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The Algonquin Round Table was a group of thirty writers, editors, actors, and publicists that met on a regular basis at the Algonquin Hotel in New York; the group contributed to hit Broadway plays, bestselling books, and popular newspaper columns.
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The steel strike of 1919 was an attempt by the weakened Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (the AA) to organize the United States steel industry in the wake of World War I.
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The Centralia massacre, also known as the Armistice Day riot, was a violent and bloody incident that occurred in Centralia, Washington, during a parade celebrating the first anniversary of Armistice Day.
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The Twenties witnessed the large scale use of automobiles, telephones, electricity, accelerated consumer demand and aspirations, and it marked significant changes in lifestyle and culture.
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Billy Sunday was a former Majory League base ball player that used the radio to preach to the masses and said that if anyone wanted to saved they just had to make a demonstartion of faith.
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The 1920's was the beginning of the studio and the birth of the "star" as movies became widely popular.
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Dance clubs and jazz music became a widely popular fun night out for young adults in the 1920s.
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Flappers were a "new breed" of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.
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Concepcion Sanchez created and popularized tortillerias starting the Meican Food Revolution.
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For the single-income family, all these new conveniences were impossible to afford at once, so to maximize profet department Sstores opened up generous lines of credit for those who could not pay up front but could demonstrate the ability to pay in the future.
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The act streamlined the federal budget system and established the General Accounting Office to audit government expenditures.
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T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" has been called one of the most important poems of the 20th Century, as it refers to the spiritual and intellectual decay of the modern world.
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The Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s involved national security, big oil companies, bribery, and corruption at the highest levels of the government of the United States.
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The Johnson-Reed Act limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota, and completely excluded immigrants from Asia.
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The Dawes Plan is signed by the United States, France, Great Britain, Italy, and Belgium to solve the German reparations problem and to end the occupation of the Ruhr by French and Belgium troops.
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In the 1920's Charles Darwin came up with the theory of evolution, many relious people did not agree with this theory and in Tennessee a high school biology teacher was indicted becuase he was teaching evolution to his students.
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Alain Locke was known as the "Father of the of the Harlem Renaissance" for his publication in 1925 of The New Negro, an anthology of poetry, music, and plays by both white and black artists.
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The Great Gatsby, writen by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is regarded as a brilliant piece of social commentary, offering a perspective into American life in the 1920s.
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Langston Hughes's "The Weary Blues" describes an evening of listening to a blues musician in Harlem. He was a poet and an activist in the 1920's.
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This act gave the Commerce Department regulatory powers over sectors of the aviation industry, such as the licensing of pilots and aircrafts.
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The pact outlaws war as a means to settle disputes, substituting diplomacy and world opinion for armed conflict.
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"All is Quite on The Wetern Front" is a novel written by Erich Maria Remarque, who was drafted into the war for Germany, wthat showed the horrors of war from the position of a German Soldier.
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The act creates the Federal Farm Board, designed to promote the sale of agricultural products through cooperatives and stabilization corporations, and it provides for the purchase of surplus goods by the federal government to maintain price levels.
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The Great Depression was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world.
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Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors.
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The stock market crash of 1929 was one of the main cuases from the Great Depression, which would only end when WWll started American industries up again.
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The Dust Bowl was the name given to the Great Plains region devastated by drought in depression-ridden America.
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Ella Josephine Baker was an African-American civil rights and human rights activist, was a largely behind-the-scenes organizer whose career spanned over five decades, and worked alongside some of the most famous civil rights leaders of the 20th century, including, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In response to the Dust Bowl, the federal government mobilized several New Deal agencies, principally the Soil Conservation Service, to promote farm rehabilitation.
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Created in 1933, its purpose was to create jobs for the unemployed in the construction area, it resulted in a greater expense to the federal government than anticipated.
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Due to an increase of the illegal production and sale of liquor, known as “bootlegging”, the proliferation of speakeasies, illegal drinking spots, and rise in gang violence and other crimes led to the passing of the 21st amendment ending Prohibition.
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Created in 1933 by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Civilian Conservation Corps was aimed to combat unemployment and succeeded in providing many Americans jobs during the Great Depression.
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Established 1933 to the Tennessee Valley region during the Great Depression, was and is now a federally Owned corporations that provides electricity in the U.S.
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Created in 1933 to provide economic stimulus and jobs during the Great Depression.
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Established in 1933, its purpose was to assist in the refinancing of homes, it saved one million people from foreclosure by giving them long term loans.
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Designed in 1933 to bring the interest if working class Americans and business together in order to balance the needs of all involved in the economy.
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Created in 1934, it was a government agency used to fight the housing crisis of the Great depression.
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Created 1934, it supervised the stock market and eliminated dishonest practices.
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Created in 1935 as the largest New Deal Agency, it provided millions of jobs across the nations giving Americans work and numerous roads, buildings, and other projects were completed because of it.
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Created in 1935 to combat widespread poverty among senior citizens, government provides income to retired wage earners.
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Created in 1938, it required manufacturers to list ingredients in foods, drugs, and cosmetic products.
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Enacted in 1938, it mandated a minimum wage and maximum 40-hour workweek for employees of those businesses engaged in interstate commerce.
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Established in 1939, it had several important government entities: administer social security, federal education funding, and food and drug safety, it was abolished in 1953
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Duke Ellington was born in Washington D.C. and started playing music when he was just 7 years, he wrote his first song at age 15 called "Soda Fountain Rag". Also his fame rose in the 1940s when he composed networks, including "Concerto for Cootie," "Cotton Tail" and "Ko-Ko."
