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Marcus Garvey
Leader of the UNIA, urged blacks to return to Africa because, he reasoned, blacks would never be treated justly in countries ruled by whites. -
18th Ammendment
effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal -
Religious Fundamentalism
religious movement whose objectives are to return to the foundations of the faith and to influence state policy -
Volstead Act
Enforced the 18th amendment -
G. Mithcell Palmer
ordered immigrants suspected of radical views to be rounded up and deported. -
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes A leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance. He wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "My People" -
Jack Dempsey
United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion (1895-1983) -
Red Scare
widespread fear by a society or state about a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism. The term is most often used to refer to two periods in the history of the United States with this name -
Speakeasies
Bars that operated illegally during the time of Prohibition -
New Morality of 1920's
came forth during the 1920s, turning people away from traditional values. Glorified weath and personal freedom, more secular, straying away from religion -
WEB Dubois
demanded complete equality for blacks, social as well as economic, and helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1910; -
Jazz
music genre that originated in African-American communities of New Orleans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, developed from roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, jazz has become recognized as a major form of musical expression. -
Louis Armstrong
an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s, and different eras in the history of jazz. -
Harlem Renaissance
an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. During the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke -
Babe Ruth
an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935 -
Gangsterism
Prohibition spawned these crimes; organized crime of bootlegging alcohol and bribing public officials to keep quiet; also got involved in prostitution and gambling -
Great Migration
the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
a government scandal that took place in the United States during 1921–1923, and was a bribery incident involving the administration of then President Warren G. Harding -
Harding Administration
Harding was one of the most popular presidents, but the subsequent exposure of scandals that took place under his administration such as Teapot Dome eroded his popular regard, as did revelations of an affair by Nan Britton, one of his mistresses. In historical rankings of the U.S. Presidents, Harding is often rated among the worst. -
1921 emergency quota act
An act designed to restrict the flow of immigrants into the U.S. A nation would have to fulfill a quota in order to continue sending immigrants. -
Coolidge and the election of 1924
35th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 1924. In a three-way contest, incumbent Republican President Calvin Coolidge won election to a full term. -
HL Mencken
H. L. Mencken the author of the monthly magazine American Mercury. He attacked many controversial issues such as marriage, patriotism, democracy, prohibition -
Henry Ford's affordable car
Ford Motor Company founder ,the pioneer in the manufacturing of affordable automobiles with his Model T, which was built using assembly line methods. Workers were happy, and Ford had many customers. By 1924, his car sold for less than $300. -
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald - The American dream that anyone can achieve anything -
Theodore Dreiser
"American Tragedy"novelist used blundt prose to batter promoters and profiteers -
KKK march on Washington
Ku Klux Klan marches on Washington . -
The election of Hoover
an American engineer, businessman and politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression. -
William Faulkner
an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays, and screenplays. The sound of fury -
Black Tuesday
The day that the New York Stock Exchange crashed -
The Great Depression
a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. -
The institution of Federal prison reform
which granted rights to prisoners and provided for extensive training of prison employees -
Expansion of the Federal Farm Board (FFB)
to include making loans to farm cooperatives in order to create "stabilization corporations" that would keep agricultural prices up and provide a method of handling excess production. -
Moonshiners
Springfield VA becomes moonshine capitol of country . -
Emergency Banking Relief Act March 9, 1933
provided for the reopening of the banks as soon as examiners had found them to be financially secure. -
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Created jobs on government projects -
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Provided jobs for single males on conservation projects -
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
Helped states to provide aid for the unemployed -
Civil Works Administration (CWA)
Provided work in federal jobs -
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 -
Federal Securities Act
Required corporations to provide complete information of all stock offerings and made them liable for misrepresentations -
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 -
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 -
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) -
Dust Bowl
Dust storms in the center of the country ruiined farms and left many farmers with out crops and money. -
National Housing Act
establishing the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) to insure loans for construction, renovation or repairs of homes. -
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) -
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Quickly created as many jobs as possible -
National Youth Administration (NYA)
Provided job training for unemployed young people and part-time jobs for needy students -
Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDC)
Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDC) -
Ernest Hemingway
an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style—which he termed the Iceberg Theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century. The Sun Also Rises won Nobel prize in literature
