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1920's Literature: Women's Magazines
Magazines, especially women's are much like today's, filled with recipes, short stories, etc. -
1920's African American Identity: The Great Migration
The relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West. -
1920's Culture: Jazz Music
Jazz music experienced a dramatic surge in popularity. -
1920's African American Identity: Black Arts Movement
The Black Arts Movement saw the rise of music and literature that reflected and embraced a pronounced political and racial consciousness -
Prohibition: Ratification of the 18th Ammendment
The ratification of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, banning the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors. -
1920's African American Identity: The Red Summer
Marked by hundreds of deaths and higher casualties across the United States, as a result of race riots that occurred in more than three dozen cities and one rural county -
1920’s African American Identity: Chicago Race Riot
The Chicago Race Riot started with the drowning of a teenager in Lake Michigan. -
Religion
Science and Religious Fundamentalism, where several leading scientists joined forces with liberal Protestant clergy in the early 1920s to popularize their "modernist" religious views through a series of pamphlets. -
1920's Economy: Household Work
Refrigerators, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, and irons all changed the way women cleaned and picked up the house -
1920's Economy: Supermarkets
Large bakeries supplied bread to new and larger supermarkets. -
1920's Economy: Buying on Credit
Department stores opened up generous ines of credit for those who could not pay up front but could demonstrate the ability to pay in the future. -
1920's Economy: Advertising
This was not a new business, but in the increasingly competitive marketplace, manufacturers looked to more and more aggressive advertising campaigns. -
1920's Culture: Flappers
Notions of modern womanhood were defined by the flapper, a woman with unconventional style and behavior. -
1920's Culture: Art Deco
Characterized by pure and geometric forms, Art Deco originated in Europe and spread to North America in the mid-1920s, manifesting itself famously in the construction of the Chrysler Building, the tallest building in the world at its time. -
1920's Literature: F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald published some of the most enduring novels of the Jazz Age, including This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, and The Great Gatsby. -
1920's Economy: Conveniences
Products that once used to be expensive, were now able to be purchased, such as the automobile, washing machine and radio. -
1920's Culture:
The 19th amendment was passed in 1920, giving women the right to vote, and women began to pursue both family life and careers of their own. -
1920's Politics: Election of 1920
Warren G. Harding was the republican party and won the presidency.The election was dominated by the social and political environment in the aftermath of World War I and a hostile response to certain policies of Woodrow Wilson, as well as the massive reaction against the reformist zeal of the Progressive Era -
1920's Literature: Newbery Medal
In 1921 Frederic G. Melcher had the Newbery Medal designed by René Paul Chambellan. -
Immigration: Immigration Restriction Act of 1921
Federal legislation limiting the immigration of aliens into the United States. -
1920's Literature: Pulitzer Prize
The first Pulitzer Prize won in the 1920's was in 1921, for The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton -
1920's African American Identity: Harlem Renaissance
A literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that moved a new black cultural identity. -
Immigration: Immigration Act of 1924
The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. -
1920's Politics: Election of 1924
Calvin Coolidge was vice president under Warren G. Harding and became president in 1923 when Harding died during his term in office. -
1920's Literature: Hitler
Adolf Hitler published his autobiography. Hitler wrote an autobiography called, Mein Kampf or My Struggle, and it was followed by a second volume in 1926. -
1920's Religion: Scopes Trial
An American legal case in 1925 where a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, where it is unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. -
1920's Culture: Film
The first talking film, The Jazz Singer, was released in 1927. The first all-color all-talking feature was also produced later on, named, "On with the Show." -
1920's Politics: Election of 1928
Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover was nominated as the Republican candidate, as President Calvin Coolidge chose not to run for a second full term. -
Prohibition: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Al Capone ordered the assassination of seven rivals. Capone was never indicted for his racketeering but was finally brought to justice for income-tax evasion in 1931. -
Herbert Hoover's Policy: Laissez-Faire
Defended laissez-faire economic policy, a policy of letting things take their own course, without interfering. -
Herbert Hoover's Policy: Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929
Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929, under the administration of Herbert Hoover, established 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. -
Stock Market Crash: Stocks
The U.S. stock market underwent rapid expansion, reaching its peak in August 1929, after a period of wild speculation. By then, production had already declined and unemployment had risen, leaving stocks in great excess of their real value. -
Stock Market Crash: Black Tuesday
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, taking out thousands of investors. -
1920's Politics: Election of 1932
The election took place against the backdrop of the Great Depression that had ruined the promises of President and Republican candidate Herbert Hoover to bring about a new era of prosperity. -
New Deal Programs
Called the Works Progress Administration, or WPA. This program gave jobs to researchers, writers, and editors. -
New Deal Programs: The Banking Acts
Two days after becoming president, Roosevelt declared a five-day national bank holiday to close banks temporarily. Several days later, Congress passed the Emergency Banking Relief Act, which gave Roosevelt the power to regulate banking transactions and foreign exchange. -
New Deal Programs: The First Hundred Days
With the support of a panicked Democratic Congress, Roosevelt created most of the “alphabet agencies” of the First New Deal within his landmark First Hundred Days in office. -
New Deal Programs: Civilian Conservation Corps
Hired unemployed young men to work on environmental conservation projects throughout the country. For a wage of thirty dollars a month, men worked on flood control and reforestation projects, helped improve national parks, and built many public roads. -
New Deal Programs: Government
An antidepression program marked by extensive governmental economic planning and intervention. -
New Deal Programs: Federal Emergency Relief Aid Programs
Dole out roughly $500 million to the states. About half of this money was earmarked to bail out bankrupt state and local governments. -
New Deal Programs: Tennessee Valley Authority
Modernizee and reduced unemployment in the Tennessee River valley, one of the poorest and hardest-hit regions in the country. -
New Deal Programs: National Industry Recovery Act
The federal government’s first attempt to revive the economy as a whole. The bill created the National Recovery Administration (NRA) to stimulate industrial production and improve competition by drafting corporate codes of conduct. -
New Deal Programs: Restructuring American Finance
Lobbied Congress to establish new regulations on the financial sector of the economy. After taking office, he took the country off the gold standard, which allowed citizens and foreign countries to exchange paper money for gold. -
New Deal Programs: Alfred Du Pont
Took control of a few Florida banks and reestablished them. -
New Deal Programs: Paper
Alfred Du Pont bought forestland and used it to start the paper industry in Florida, causing paper mills sprang up all around the state. -
New Deal Programs: Reform
One of the goals of the New Deal Programs was to reform the banking and financial sector of the economy to curb bad lending practices, poor trading techniques, and corruption. -
Dust Bowl: Definition
A period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. -
Dust Bowl: Aeolian Process
Severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion, also known as the Aeolian processes, caused the event. -
1920's Politics: Election of 1936
Took place as the Great Depression entered it's eighth year; Franklin D. Roosevelt