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Radios
Invented by Guglielmo Marconi, the wireless telegraphy which eventually evolved into consumer radio in 1920s in which long-distance broadcasting allowed for national networks. -
Wright Brothers
Flew and designed the first planes, Kitty Hawk was the place of the first successful flight. -
United Negro Improvement Association
Founded by Marcus Garvey to promote resettlement of American blacks in African homeland, sponsored stores and business to make money, but many efforts failed financially, and helped to inspire blacks to gain self-confidence and self-reliance. -
Chicago Race Riot
Black populations expanded to white neighborhoods, and found jobs as strikebreakers, and they were triggered by an indecent at a beach lead to black and white gangs killing fifteen whites and 23 blacks. -
Steel Strike of 1919
It was a union of skilled iron and steel workers which was deeply committed to craft unionism. -
Harlem Resnaissance
It marked a moment when white America started recognizing the intellectual contributions of Blacks and on the other hand African Americans asserted their identity intellectually and linked their struggle to that of blacks. -
Louis Armstrong
Jazz musician originating from Harlem Renaissance, arguing for a "New Negro" who had equality. -
Claude McKay
American poet and novelist; A major figure of the Harlem Renaissance, McKay is best remembered for his poems treating racial themes. -
18th Amendment
The amendment to the United States Constitution that prohibited the manufacture, sale, distribution and consumption of alcoholic beverages; it is the only amendment to have ever been rejected by the American public and repealed. -
Normalcy
This term came to symbolize, to powerful businessmen, the immediate abandonment of the foreign and domestic policies of Wilson, which meant a return to high protective tariffs and a reduction in taxes. -
Volstead Act
Established prohibition in the United States. -
Warren G. Harding
His campaign slogan was "A Return to Normalcy," appointed group known as the "Ohio gang" (his longtime allies/contributors) to important positions in DC, where they caused much corruption (Teapot Dome Scandal), established the Veteran's Bureau and the Bureau of the Budget (now called the Office of Management and Budget). -
T.S Elliot
The ultimate indictment of the modern world's loss of personal, moral, and spiritual values. -
Capper-Volstead Act
It gave “associations” of persons producing agricultural products certain exemptions from antitrust laws. -
Immigration Act of 1924
The Immigration Act made permanent the basic limitations on immigration into the United States established in 1921 and modified the National Origins Formula established then. -
Alain Locke
A hopeful look at the negro in America. -
F. Scott Fitzgerald
His novel "The Great Gatsby" is considered a masterpiece about a gangster's pursuit of an unattainable rich girl. -
Scopes Trial
John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school and was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow; Scopes was convicted but the verdict was later. -
Model T
Rugged, cheap, relatively reliable car that was popular but also joked about and very popular. -
Federal Farm Board
The board would help farmers stabilize prices by holding surplus grain and cotton in storage. -
The Great Depression
Triggered collapse of world economy, stock market speculation, heavy borrowing, highly unstable financial situation, plummeting stock prices, bank closures, world trade and industrial production dropped, unemployment; currencies devalued, protective tariffs and quotas. U.S. Congress deny new loans -
Black Tuesday
A consumer panic in the stock market that is said to allegedly be the main cause of the Great Depression. -
Fundamentalism
A form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture. -
Dust Bowl
A period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies. -
Hawley Smoot Tariff
Imported goods went from about 30% to almost 50%(tariffs). -
Sinclair Lewis
He was the first American to receive a Nobel Prize for literature. -
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Designed to give out loans to banks, railroads, and monopolistic companies in order to pump money back into the economy during the years of the Depression. -
Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act
It banned yellow-dog contracts, barred the federal courts from issuing injunctions against nonviolent labor disputes, and created a positive right of noninterference by employers against workers joining trade unions. -
Federal Kidnapping Act
Intended to let federal authorities step in and pursue kidnappers once they had crossed state lines with their victim. -
Bonus Army
The name for an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 U.S. World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. -
Emergency Banking Relief Act (EBRA)
An Act to provide relief in the existing national emergency in banking, and for other purposes. -
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
A public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men. -
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
Purpose was initially to distribute 500 million dollars in federal funds to state agencies and helped provide work for over 20 million people. -
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
An Act to relieve the existing national economic emergency by increasing agricultural purchasing power, to raise revenue for extraordinary expenses incurred by reason of such emergency, to provide emergency relief with respect to agricultural indebtedness, to provide for the orderly liquidation of joint-stock land banks, and for other purposes. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
Was to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley. -
Federal Securities Act
The first major federal legislation to regulate the offer and sale of securities. -
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
An Act to encourage national industrial recovery, to foster fair competition, and to provide for the construction of certain useful publics and for other purposes. -
Clayton County
The Civilian Conservation Corps opens the first soil erosion control camp in Clayton County, Alabama and by September there will be 161 soil erosion camps. -
21st Amendment
It repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol. -
Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
The FHA sets standards for construction and underwriting and insures loans made by banks and other private lenders for home building. -
Civil Works Administration (CWA)
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. -
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
The legislation was designed to help investors feel more comfortable about putting their money back into the stock market. -
First New Deal
Roosevelt launched a second, more aggressive series of federal programs, sometimes called the Second New Deal. -
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. -
National Youth Administration (NYA)
Focused on providing work and education for Americans between the ages of 16 and 25. -
Social Security Act
A system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped. -
Zora Neale Hurston
Written in "black vernacular" and criticized for harsh portrayal of black males is nevertheless regarded as the classic novel about the struggles of being female and African-American in America -
Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDC)
To prohibit the movement in interstate commerce of adulterated and misbranded food, drugs, devices, and cosmetics, and for other purposes. -
Public Works Administration (PWA)
It built large-scale public works such as dams, bridges, hospitals, and schools. -
Magnuson Act
It allowed Chinese immigration for the first time since the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, and permitted some Chinese immigrants already residing in the country to become naturalized citizens.
