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Henry Ford
One of America's greatest businessman, Ford founded the Ford Motor Company and is largely responsible for America's mass-production during the 1920's -
KKK
A white supremacy hate group, the KKK was at the peak of its second phase in the 1920's. -
Guglielmo Marconi
Marconi was an italian engineer and pioneer known for his work on radios in the 1920's. -
Marcus Garvey
A Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements. -
George "Babe" Ruth Jr.
An american baseball player whose career in the MLB spanned from 1914-1935. -
Jack Dempsey
Also known as "Kid Blackie", Dempsey was an American professional boxer who became a culture icon in the 1920's. -
Al Capone
One of the most notorious gangsters of all time, Al Capone was supremely prominent during the Prohibition phase of America and is thought to be behind the St. Valentine's Massacre. -
Langston Hughes
Hughes was one of the earliest members of the Jazz Age, practically innovating it. -
Fundamentalists
Fundamentalism as a movement arose in the United States, starting among conservative Presbyterian theologians at Princeton Theological Seminary in the 1920's. -
UNIA
Marcus Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in August 1914 as a means of uniting all of Africa and its diaspora into "one grand racial hierarchy." -
18th Amendment
This amendment effectively established the prohibiton of alcohol in the Unietd States udner any circumstances. -
Radicals on The Run
The aftermath of American Legion Super Patriotic War veterans joined the Anti-Bolshevik chorus, attacking political leftists as enemy reds. -
Red Scare of 1919-1920
A nationwide fear of communists, socialists, and anarchists, controlled America shortly after the war in the early 1920's. -
Emergency Quota Act
This act restricted immigration into the United States during the 1920's using a 3% percentage dependent on the specific country. -
Bureau of the Budget
Now called the OMB, the bureau was created as a result of the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 by Harding to establish the federal budget. -
The Washington Conference
Held in D.C, this conference resulted in the drafting and signing of many treaty agreements. -
Unemployment Relief Act
An act passed in 1930, that provided grants for municipal public works projects. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
An oil reserve scandal that occured during the Harding adminstration. -
Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act
A law that raised American tariffs on many imported goods to protect factories and farms. -
Adkins v. Children's Hospital
The court overturned a minimum-wage law affecting women because it infringed on liberty of contract in 1923. -
The American Mercury
An american magazine published from 1924-1981 providing new theories and ideas. -
Immigration Act of 1924
A federal states law that limited immigration down to 2% from any given country. -
National Housing Act
Created the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) with the purpose to make credit more available to lenders for home repairs and construction and to make better housing available to low- and moderate-income families. -
Dawes Plan of 1924
Created by Charles G. Dawes, this plan was an attempt to solve the World War I money reperations problem which messed with international affairs as a result. -
The Weary Blues
A poem written by Langston Hughes describing an evening of listening to blues in Harlem. -
"The Man Nobody Knows" Bruce Barton
Barton, an advertiser, portrayed Christ as not only a religious prophet but a salesperson spurring the advertising age of the 20's in his book. -
The Great Gatsby
A novel by F Scott Fitzgerald set in the summer of 1922 following characters who live in a fictional town in NYC/ -
Scopes Trial
A case about a high school teacher who was illegally charged with teaching kids the evolution theory. -
Scopes Trial
A case about a high school teacher who was illegally charged with teaching kids the evolution theory. -
An American Tragedy
A novel written by the American writer Theodore Dreiser that was famous in the 1920's. -
The Sun Also Rises
Written by Ernest Hemingway, a novel about a group of British and Americans who travel from Paris to Pampalona. -
The Jazz Singer
A blackface film portraying Bobby Gordon as an African American stirred racial tensions in the 20's -
The Sound and The Fury
Written by William Faulkner, the novel has many narrative styles and focuses on the idea of consciousness. -
The Agricultural Marketing Act
Under the administration of Herbert Hoover, this actestablished the Federal Farm Board from the Federal Farm Loan Board established by the Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916 with a revolving fund of half a billion dollars. -
Blue Blazes Whiskey Still Raid
Located in Catocin Mountain, this moonshine was a huge operation until it got raided in 1929. -
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday refers to when panicked sellers traded nearly 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell -12%. Black Tuesday is often cited as the beginning of the Great Depression. -
Hawley Smoot Tariff
THis act sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley, raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels. -
Emergency Banking Act
An act passed by the United States Congress in 1933 in an attempt to stabilize the banking system. -
Beer and Wine Revenue Act
President Roosevelt signed the Act in order to levy a federal tax on alcoholic beverages to raise federal revenue to get our nation out of the Great Depression. -
FERA
The federal emergency relief adminstration which loaned federal funds. -
AAA
The Agricultural Adjustment Act reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock. -
TVA
The Tennesee Valley Authority was a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter o provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression. -
Federal Securities Act
First legislation to oversee the practice of securities. -
Homeowneres Refinancing Act
This act refinanced home ownere mortgage and insurance during the Great Depression -
NRA
Created by FDR, the National Recovery Administration (NRA) was the primary New Deal agency with the goal being to eliminate "cut-throat competition" by bringing industry, labor and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices. -
Glass Steagall Act
The term Glass–Steagall Act usually refers to four provisions of the U.S. Banking Act of 1933 that limited commercial bank securities, activities, and affiliations within commercial banks and securities firms. -
CWA
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) was a short-lived U.S. job creation program established by the New Deal during the Great Depression to rapidly create manual labor jobs for millions of unemployed workers. The jobs were merely temporary, for the duration of the hard winter of 1933–34. -
Resettlement Administration
A New Deal U.S. federal agency that, between April 1935 and December 1936, relocated struggling urban and rural families affected by the Dust Bowl to communities planned by the federal government. -
Wagner Act
This act focused on the foundational statute of United States labor law which guarantees basic rights of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining for better terms and conditions at work, etc. -
The Unemployed
A painting by John Langley Howard portaying the effects on society because of the Great Depression -
Reorganization Act
An American Act of Congress which gave the President of the United States the authority to hire additional confidential staff and reorganize the executive branch (within certain limits) for two years subject to legislative veto. -
The Grapes of Wrath
Written by John Steinbeck, this novel centers around a family's struggle due to the Dust Bowl.
