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Palmer Raids
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer became the new . After that the United States arreted 6000 suspected communists but they arrested them even if they only looked like a communists. They deported 249 radicals by December of 1919. -
The "Red Scare"
The “Red Scare” is formally the fear of communism. The United States had this happen due to the Bolshievk Resolution. In the United States there were over 150,000 communists and anarchists. -
Prohibition
The time in the U.S. when the manufacturing, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors was illegal.
Characterized by speakeasies, gangsters, and law-breaking by average citizens. -
Flappers
were northern, urban, single, young, middle-class women.
Many held steady jobs in the changing American economy
characterized by shoulder length hair, knee high dresses, and tons of makeup
very active night time social life -
Jazz Age
AKA Roaring Twenties
A time of social revolution in the US when morals became slightly looser and the rise of Jazz music in the black comunity boomed into the social spotlight. -
Volstead Act
Enacted to help enforce the 18th amendment which called for the prohibition and sale of alcohol.
Named after Minnesota Rep. Andrew Volstead. -
Sacco and Vanzetti Case
Nicola Sacco and Bartoelmeo Vanzetti were two men charged with murdering a paymaster and a guard. In this case the judge was very prejudice against the "reds" and the two men were accused of murder. The both got the electric chair on August 24th 1927. -
Sigmund Freud
Freud was one of the big players in psychology. He published papers on religon, literature and introductory lectures to gain the support of a wide and popular audience. -
The Election of Harding
In the 1920 election Harding was the Republican nomination an Ohio newpaper editor and United States Senator and his running mate was Calvin Coolidge who was the governor of Massachusetts. -
Emergency Quota of 1921
The European immigration was restricted to 3% of their nationality that lived in the country in 1910, according to the 1910 cencus. -
Charlie Chaplin
famous movie actor
won first academy award in "The Circus"
debuted when he was 12 in a legitamate stage showing of "Sherlock Holmes" -
Washington Naval Conference
The worlds largest naval powers met in Washington to disguss naval dissarment over the growing tensions within East Asia. After WWI leaders want to limit the chacne of possibility of another world war. Rising Japanese military raised many comncerns on this subject. -
Nine-Power Treaty
Many countries signed this treaty that stated that these countries would respect the sovereignty, independence, and territorial and administrative intergrety of China. Some of these countries that signed this treaty were the U.S, China, Italy, and Britian. -
Marcus Garvey
founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
outstanding public speaker
urged African-Americans to be poud of their race when he spoke across the US -
Teapot Dome Scandal
Interior Secretary Albert Fall leased the U.S. naval petroleum reserve at Wyoming’s Teapot Dome to a private oil company without competitive bidding and made a huge profit for himself out of it.
Investigated by Senator Thomas Walsh -
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
The fordney-McCumber tariff was a tariff that rasied the tairff in order to protect farms and factories. The tariff was signed by president Warren Harding. After the tariff was passed the tariff stood at 38%. -
Adkins V. Children's Hospital
A landmark supreme court decision reversing the ruling of Muller v. Oregon, which had declared women to be deserving of special protection in the work-place. -
Election of Coolidge
Coolidge won the 1924 election easily. He took over after the sudden death of Harding. He dominated the electoral college vote by winning 35 states and only leaving 12 states for the democrats and Davis. Coolidge also dominated the popular vote by getting more than the other two canidates put together. -
Dawes Plan
was created to take Weimar Germany out of hyperinflation and to return Weimar’s economy to some form of stability.
Named after the man who headed the committee was an American called Charles Dawes. -
Model T (Ford)
Built Cars on assembly line to make them affordable for everyone.
The Ford Motor Company built more than 15 million Model T cars. -
KKK " The Birth of a Nation"
Racist film that was a derrogatory depiction of black Americans
One of the first major production films in the US -
Immigration Act of 1924
The Act was set to 2% of the nationalities in the 1890 census. This allowed way less Southern Europeans into the United States. This act completly restricted East Asians, such as China, and Japan. -
Scopes Trial
Defense was made by Clarence Darrow
Prosecutor was William Jennings Bryan
Tennessee made it illegal to teach the theory of evolution and the American Civil Liberties Union convinced John Scopes to teach it in his class.
Scopes was convicted but it was later overturned. -
The Great Gatsby
A book written by F. Scott Fitzgerald that described the American dream. -
The "Lost Generation"
The "lost generation" is a a group of writers from the 1920s. Some of these wriers included Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The writings brough a sense of moral loss and aimlessness to the 1920s. -
Gertrude Ederle
First woman to swin across English Channel
beat men's record by 1 hour 59 minutes -
Charles Lindbergh
First man to fly across the Atlantic on a solo flight
published a book after the flight called We.
enlisted in army and flew mail. -
Election of Hoover
First presidential campaign done over the radio
Major issues during the campaign were religion and prohibition. -
Kellogg-Brand Pact
The kellogg-Brand Pact was a pact to outlaw war. This pact was one of many international efforts to make peace and prevent another world war. It didnt stop the rising militarism that was the eventual cause of WWII. -
The Arrest of Al Capone (a.k.a Scarface)
Al Capone was one of and still is one of the biggest gangsters known in the United States. He was the leader of the Chicago Mafia. He was the main reason chicago got the name the lawless city. Al Capone was eventually arrested for tax evasion and spent many years in Alcatras. -
Edward Ellington
considere to be the best recording artist, composer and band leader of all time
made his own complex but consistent style of music. 1930 -
Smoot-Hawlet Tariff
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act raised the United States’s already high tariff rates.
Raised import tax to 40%
It was the last legislation under which the U.S. Congress set actual tariff rates. -
Five-Power Naval Treaty
The United States, Japan, Britian, Italy, and FRance came to a landmark agreement to reduce naval power that intended to slow the arms race and decrease the chance of another war. -
Bonus Army
15000-20000 jobless WWI veterans marched to the capitol and demanded early payments of cash bonuses due to them by 1945. -
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
U.S. government agency established by Congress on January 22, 1932
Designed to provide financial aid to railroads, financial institutions, and business corporations
Made little use of itself under the Hoover administration but contributed greatly during the New Deal -
Harlem Renaissance
a phase of a larger New Negro movement that had emerged in the early 20th century
developed with the large civil rights movement in US -
Hoover-Stimson Doctrine
the policy of refusing to recognize political or territorial changes made in violation of American treaty rights adopted in response to Japanese activities in the Far East.
