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Life of Immigrants in early 1900's
Thousands of immigrants arrived in the United States and lived in New York City. ... Because most immigrants were poor when they arrived, they often lived on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where rents for the crowded apartment buildings, called tenements, were low. -
Marcus Garvey and the UNIA
Born in Jamaica, the black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey founded his Universal Negro Improvement Association -
Dadaism
Its purpose was to ridicule the meaninglessness of the modern world. -
The Palmer Raids
An attempt to arrest foreign anarchists, communists, and radical leftists, many of whom were subsequently deported. -
18th Amendment
After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. -
The Red Scare
A promotion of widespread fear by a society or state about a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism. -
Prohibition
Legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States -
Presidential Election
Harding's campaign promised a return to "normalcy," rejecting the activism of Theodore Roosevelt and the idealism of Woodrow Wilson. -
Women's Suffragist Movement
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote, a right known as women's suffrage, -
Recession
The highest marginal tax rate was 73 percent for those earning more than $1 million. Almost 70 percent of federal revenue came from income taxes. -
Flappers
a generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. -
Harlem Renaissance
This movement was primarily artistic and intellectual. -
Jazz Age
a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles rapidly gained nationwide popularity in the United States. The Jazz Age's cultural repercussions were primarily felt in the United States, the birthplace of jazz. -
Night Clubs
Harlem night clubs were very popular where people could go and drink when it was still illegal and listen to live music -
Automobiles
The prosperity of the 1920s led to new patterns of consumption, or purchasing consumer goods like radios, cars, vacuums, beauty products or clothing. The expansion of credit in the 1920s allowed for the sale of more consumer goods and put automobiles within reach of average Americans. -
American Renaissance
During this time America was flourishing in literary and cultural ways developing their own culture. -
Impressionism
In music, a style initiated by French composer Claude Debussy at the end of the 19th century and it really sparked in the US during the 1920's -
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. -
Zeta Phi Beta
An African-American sorority, is founded at Howard University. -
Negro National Baseball League
Was founded by Andrew Rube Foster. Eight teams are part of the league. -
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified
The Amendment grants women the right to vote. However, African-American women residing in Southern states are barred from voting through poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses. -
Christianity
The church due to its legal separation from the state was not formally involved in politics, but took a strong interest in issues like the family, marriage and divorce, prohibition of alcohol, employer-employee relationships, crime and other social issues. -
Biblical Doubt
New scientific discoveries and theories flourished causing doubt on the biblical version of events. Educational institutions promoted scientific learning based on facts causing some to label them as "incubators of agnosticism -
Speakeasy
An illicit establishment that sells alcoholic beverages. Such establishments came into prominence in the United States during the Prohibition era -
Warren Harding Became President
The recession ended in July without any intervention. Congress increased the corporate tax rate from 10 percent to 12.5 percent. The Emergency Immigration Act restricted the number of immigrants to 3 percent of the 1910 U.S. population. -
"Shuffle Along," written by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, debuts on Broadway
The musical is considered the first major theatrical production of the Harlem Renaissance. -
Vice President Calvin Coolidge became President
His motto was "The business of America is business." The Supreme Court revoked the minimum wage for women in Washington, DC. A recession began in May. The stock market began a six-year bull market. -
Stock Market
One reason for the boom was because of financial innovations. Stockbrokers began allowing customers to buy stocks "on margin." -
The Revenue Act of 1924
Lowered the top rate to 46 percent, according to the Tax Foundation. -
Immigration Act of 1924
Limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States -
The Great Gatsby
The narrator, Nick Carraway, is a young Yale graduate who works as a bond broker in Manhattan. His neighbour at West Egg, Long Island, is Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire from the Midwest. Nick watches as Gatsby is betrayed by his own dreams, which have been nurtured by a meretricious society. -
Herbert Hoover's Foreign Policy
Hoover's most important foreign policy adviser was Secretary of State Henry Stimson. Stimson's previous experience in the federal government, as secretary of war under President Taft and as governor-general of the Philippine Islands -
Government Raised Interest Rates
just weeks before the stock market crashed – the Federal Reserve Bank of New York raised the interest rate from 5 percent to 6 percent. -
Stock Market Crash
A sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth -
Dust Bowl
a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s -
Severe Drought leading to Dust Bowl
Poor agricultural practices and years of sustained drought caused the Dust Bowl. Plains grasslands had been deeply plowed and planted to wheat. But as the droughts of the early 1930s deepened, the farmers kept plowing and planting and nothing would grow. -
Revenue Act of 1932
The estate tax was doubled and corporate taxes were raised by almost 15 percent. -
FDIC
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is a United States government corporation providing deposit insurance to depositors in U.S. commercial banks and savings institutions. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
The new agency was asked to tackle important problems facing the valley, such as flooding, providing electricity to homes and businesses, and replanting forests. -
NRA
National Industrial Recovery Act (Legalized industry collaboration for price controls and collective bargaining for labor.) -
AAA
Agricultural Adjustment Act (Introduced measures to reduce crop supply, stabilize prices and support farm incomes.) -
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Gave the president emergency powers over the US banking system, under which he called a ‘bank holiday’ to allow evaluation of all banks and closure of insolvent ones. -
Glass-Stegall Banking Act
Created Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to insure personal bank accounts. Separated commercial from investment banking – The ‘Firewall.’ -
Income and Wealth Taxes
Greater emphasis on progressive taxation and taxation on wealth; consistent revenue increases achieved. -
Indian Reorganization Act
Land returned or added to tribal holdings, development of tribal businesses promoted, a system of credit established, a return to self-governance. -
Virgin Islands Company
Rehabilitated the sugar and rum industries of the Virgin Islands; reduced unemployment; provided various farm services and loan programs; coordinated with a homesteading program. -
FHA
Federal Housing Administration is a United States government agency created in part by the National Housing Act -
Legislation for American Indians in Oklahoma and Native Alaskans
Extended provisions of the Indian Reorganization Act to these areas. -
US Travel Bureau
Helped increase recreational travel & tourism within the United States. -
FCIC
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation is a wholly owned government corporation managed by the Risk Management Agency of the United States Department of Agriculture.
