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Election of 1920
Republican Harding vs Democratic Cox, Harding won by landslide. -
Palmer Raid
Palmer, Hoover, and agents hunted down suspected communists, socialists, and anarchists -
The Boston Police Strike
no raise at beginning of WWI; weren't allowed to unionize, when strike ended, workers couldn't return to jobs; new policemen hired -
Installment Plan
enabled people to buy goods over an extended period -
new inventions
automobile, the airplane, the washing machine, the radio, the assembly line, refrigerator, garbage disposal, electric razor, instant camera, jukebox and television. all improved life -
Manufacturing
Henry Ford makes cars affordable, labor is producing 70% more than they had been before -
Speakeasies
Secret bars that replaced saloons after prohibition of alcohol, popular in cities -
John Dewey
Columbia professor and educational theorist during 1920s who advocated learning by doing, more educational freedom, and education for life as the goal of teachers. -
Rockefeller foundation
Public health program established in the South that eradicated hookwork. -
Langston Hughes
an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. -
Zora Neale Hurston (Harlem Ren.)
an American novelist, short story writer, folklorist, and anthropologist known for her contributions to African-American literature. -
Claude Mckay
a Jamaican writer and poet, who was a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance -
F. Scott Fitzgerald
a novelist and chronicler of the jazz age, his wife, zelda and he were the "couple" of the decade but hit bottom during the depression. -
Harlem Rennessaince
Intellectual, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. -
Louis Armstrong
an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz. -
Jim Crow laws
Laws separating blacks and whites in the USA -
Ku Klux Klan Reemerges
a terrorist group who targeted african-americans and non-wasps, and resurfaced in the 1920s. -
Fundamentalism
movement arose in the United States, starting among conservative Presbyterian theologians at Princeton Theological Seminary -
Organized Crime
Gangs fought each other to take over speakeasies -
Social Impacts of Prohibition
People were in danger from gang shootings and had to break the law to drink -
Waring signs in the economy of stock market crash
the gap between rich and poor widened, personal debt increased, to many goods to little demand, speculation in stock market( high risk investments), buying on the margin, and trouble for farmers and workers. -
Trickle-Down Economics
economic theory that holds that money lent to banks and businesses will trickle down to consumers -
How did Hoover feel about federal government participation?
Argued that direct federal relief would create a large bureaucracy -
Hoover's idea of rugged individualism
Success comes through individual effort and private enterprise -
Nativism
a wide national consensus sharply restricted the overall inflow of immigrants, especially those from southern and eastern Europe, and the second Ku Klux Klan, which flourished in the U.S. in the 1920s, used strong nativist rhetoric, but the Catholics led a counterattack. -
Quota System
established the maximum number of eople who could enter the U.S. from each foreign country -
Laissez-Faire
believed the government should interfere as little as possible so as to allow businesses to flourish -
Rosewood, Florida Massacre
Scene of a massacre of a small African American town. Represented the clash between a growing black middle class and resentful whites -
Immigration Act of 1924
Limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. -
Al Capone
Most famous leader of organized violence, who began 6 years of gang warfare in Chicago -
The Great Gatsby
A novel depicting the picturesque idea of the self made American man and enterpreneur who rose from obscurity. was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. -
Scopes Trial
High school teacher John Thomas Scopes was charged with violating Tennessee's law against teaching evolution instead of the divine creation of man. -
Agriculture Failure
In the 1920's, overproduction lead to agriculture failures. -
Black Tuesday/Wall Street Crash
too many people with bad credit, banks overspeculating, Overroduction, mainly by manufacuturing and farmers -
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang, led by al capone. -
Dust Bowl States
colorado, kansas, texas, oklahoma, and new mexico were involved in the dust bowl. -
Causes of the Dust Bowl
overgrazing, overplowing, severe drought, high heat and winds, grasshoppers and jackrabbits -
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 -
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Created jobs on government projects -
Civil Works Administration (CWA)
Provided work in federal jobs -
Emergency Banking Relief Act (EBRA)
Roosevelt declared a bank holiday and closed down all the banks to be inspected. -
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
Provided money to states to create jobs -
National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Established codes of fair competition -
Federal Securities Act
Required corporations to provide complete information of all stock offerings and made them liable for misrepresentations. -
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 -
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Supervised the stock market and eliminated dishonest practices -
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 -
Banking act of 1935
Created seven-member board to regulate the nation's money supply and the interest rates on loans
