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Literature- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American fiction writer, whose works helped to illustrate the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age. While he achieved popular success, fame, and fortune in his lifetime, he did not receive much critical acclaim until after his death. -
Religion- Fundamentalist Movement
Fundamentalism as a movement arose in the United States, starting among conservative Presbyterian theologians at Princeton Theological Seminary in the late 19th century. It soon spread to conservatives among the Baptists and other denominations around 1910 to 1920. -
Literature- Dadaism
Dadaism is an artistic movement in modern art that started around World War I. Its purpose was to ridicule the meaninglessness of the modern world. Its peak was 1916 to 1922, and it influenced surrealism, pop art, and punk rock. It favored going against the standards of society. -
Literature- "American Renaissance"
American Renaissance, a blossoming (c. 1918–37) of African American culture, particularly in the creative arts, and the most influential movement -
AA Identity- Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. -
Prohibition- 18th Amendment
The 18th amendment is the only amendment to be repealed from the constitution. This unpopular amendment banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in the United States. This amendment took effect in 1919 and was a huge failure. -
Culture- The Lost Generation
The Lost Generation is the generation that came of age during World War I, which took the lives of 40 million people. “Lost,” in this context also means “disoriented, wandering, directionless”—a recognition that there was great confusion and aimlessness among the war's survivors in the early post-war years." -
Politics- League of Nations
The League of Nations was an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes. -
Politics-19th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. -
Economy- Prohibition
Prohibition, legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933 under the terms. -
Economy- Roaring 20s
The Roaring Twenties refers to the decade of the 1920s in Western society and Western culture. It was a period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States and Western Europe, particularly in major cities such as Berlin, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York City, Paris, and Sydney. -
Culture- Flappers
Flappers of the 1920s were young women known for their energetic freedom, embracing a lifestyle viewed by many at the time as outrageous, immoral or downright dangerous. -
Culture- Volstead Act
Volstead Act, formally National Prohibition Act, U.S. law enacted in 1919 (and taking effect in 1920) to provide enforcement for the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. -
Literature- Impressionism
Many American artists worked in the Impressionist style into the 1920s, but innovation had long since waned. -
Literature- Expressionism
a style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world. -
Prohibition- Prohibition Era
Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933. -
Herbert Hoover's Policies- Laissez-Faire Capitalism
Laissez Faire (French for "allow to do") is basically a policy in which the government should not interfere with economic affairs. In the 1920's (The Roaring Twenties), laissez faire was the economic philosophy in the U.S. It was strictly applied under the presidency of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge. -
AA Identity- The Harmon Foundation
The Harmon Foundation. Foundation. Real estate developer and philanthropist William E. Harmon (1862-1928) was one of many white Americans intrigued by the flowering of African-American art and literature in the 1920s. -
Politics- Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge was president of the United States from 1923 to 1929. Coolidge was known for his quiet demeanor, which earned him the nickname "Silent Cal." -
Culture- The Cotton Club
Cotton Club, legendary nightspot in the Harlem district of New York City that for years featured prominent black entertainers who performed for white audiences. -
AA Identity- Rosewood Massacre
The Rosewood massacre was a racially motivated massacre of black people and destruction of a black town that took place during the first week of January 1923 in rural Levy County, Florida. At least six black people and two white people were killed, though eyewitness accounts suggested a death toll as high as 150. -
Politics- Ku Klux Klan (KKK) erupts in the 1920s
In 1924 the Klan succeeded in engineering the elections of officials from coast to coast, including the mayors of Portland, Maine, and Portland, Oregon. In some states, such as Colorado and Indiana, they placed enough Klansmen in positions of power to effectively control the state government. -
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. -
Immigration- Asian Exclusion Act
United States federal law that prevented immigration from Asia, set quotas on the number of immigrants from the Eastern Hemisphere, and provided funding. -
AA Identity- "The New Negro"
An Interpretation (1925) is an anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays on African and African-American art and literature edited by Alain Locke, who lived in Washington, DC and taught at Howard University during the Harlem Renaissance. -
Religion- The Scopes Trial
In 1925, John Scopes was convicted and fined $100 for teaching evolution in his Dayton, Tenn., classroom. The first highly publicized trial concerning the teaching of evolution, the Scopes trial also represents a dramatic clash between traditional and modern values in America of the 1920s. -
Economy- Air Commerce Act
Congress passed the Air Commerce Act, placing in federal hands responsibility for fostering air commerce, establishing new airways, improving aids to navigation, and making and enforcing flight safety rules. -
AA Identity- Atlanta Daily World
The Atlanta Daily World is the oldest black newspaper in Atlanta, Georgia, founded in 1928. Currently owned by Real Times Inc., it publishes daily online. It was "one of the earliest and most influential black newspapers." -
Herbert Hoover's Policies- Volunteerism
Hoover proposed that volunteerism within the community was the best antidote for poverty as well as for a myriad of other social problems. He called on individuals, local charity organizations, churches, and local governments to work cooperatively to alleviate suffering and distribute relief. -
Economy- Stock Market Crash
Stock market crash of 1929, a sharp decline in U.S. stock market values in 1929 that contributed to the Great Depression of the 1930s. -
Culture- The Great Depression
The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
Stock Market Crash- "Black Monday"
Black Monday occurred on October 19, 1987, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) lost almost 22% in a single day. The event marked the beginning of a global stock market decline, and Black Monday became one of the most notorious days in financial history. -
Stock Market Crash- Wall Street Crash of 1929
The Wall Street Crash of 1929 was the greatest stock market crash in the history of the United States. It happened in the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday October 29, 1929, now known as Black Tuesday. Bank failures followed, resulting in businesses closing, which started the Great Depression. -
Politics- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States. The only president elected to the office four times, Roosevelt led the United States. -
Economy- FDR's New Deal
The New Deal was a series of programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans. When Roosevelt took office in 1933, he acted swiftly to stabilize the economy and provide jobs and relief to those who were suffering. -
Dust Bowl- Emergency Farm Mortgage Act
It created twelve Federal Land Banks to provide long-term loans for farmers. ... The Farm Credit Act coincided with the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act (passed on May 12, the same day as the Agricultural Adjustment Act), which provided $200 million in loans for farmers facing foreclosure. -
New Deal Programs- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men. -
New Deal Programs- Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses. The Government bought livestock for slaughter and paid farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land. -
New Deal Programs- National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
The National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 (NIRA) was a US labor law and consumer law passed by the US Congress to authorize the President to regulate industry for fair wages and prices that would stimulate economic recovery. -
New Deal Programs- Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), U.S. government agency established in 1933 to control floods, improve navigation, improve the living standards of farmers -
New Deal Programs- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is an independent federal agency insuring deposits in U.S. banks and thrifts in the event of bank failures. The FDIC was created in 1933 to maintain public confidence and encourage stability in the financial system through the promotion of sound banking practices. -
New Deal Programs- Economy Act
The Economy Act of 1933, officially titled the Act of March 20, 1933, is an Act of Congress that cut the salaries of federal workers and reduced benefit payments to veterans, moves intended to reduce the federal deficit in the United States. -
New Deal Programs- Beer-Wine Revenue
On this day in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Beer and Wine Revenue Act. This law levies a federal tax on all alcoholic beverages to raise revenue for the federal government and gives individual states the option to further regulate the sale and distribution of beer and wine. -
New Deal Programs- Home Owners Loan Act
The Home Owners' Loan Corporation was a government-sponsored corporation created as part of the New Deal. The corporation was established in 1933 by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation Act under the leadership of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
New Deal Programs- Gold Reserve Act
The United States Gold Reserve Act of January 30, 1934 required that all gold and gold certificates held by the Federal Reserve be surrendered and vested in the sole title of the United States Department of the Treasury. -
Dust Bowl- Shelterbelt Project
DescriptionThe Great Plains Shelterbelt was a project to create windbreaks in the Great Plains states of the United States, that began in 1934. President Franklin D. Roosevelt initiated the project in response to the severe dust storms of the Dust Bowl, which resulted in significant soil erosion and drought. -
New Plan Programs- Securities and Exchange Act
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (SEA) was created to govern securities transactions on the secondary market, after issue, ensuring greater financial transparency and accuracy and less fraud or manipulation. ... It also monitors the financial reports that publicly traded companies are required to disclose. -
New Deal Programs- National Housing Act
The National Housing Act was a law passed by Congress and signed by the president in 1934 that established the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). The law was passed as part of President Roosevelt's New Deal program, aimed at stimulating the economy out of the Great Depression. -
New Deal Programs- Works Progress Administration (WPA)
The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an 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. -
New Deal Programs- Social Security Act (SSA)
On August 14, 1935, the Social Security Act established 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.
