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Frances Willard
One of most out spoken voices of temperance movement (positive) -
Warren Harding
Elected president (positive) -
Red scare
Communist threatened to spread their revolution to other countries in Europe. Americans feared this was the start of their own communist revolution (negative) -
Eighteenth Amendment
Banned the sale of alcohol (negative) -
Marcus Garvey
Highly controversial political activist known for fiery rhetoric fancy uniforms, founder of the United Negro Improvement Association. (positive) -
Eugenics
Scientific belief that the human race could be improved by breeding. (positive) -
Flappers
Wore short dresses that revealed body shapes and expressed themselves. (positive) -
Tin Pan Alley
A section of New York City, the area where songwriting and musical ideas mixed to form American popular music. (positive) -
Great Migration
About 2 million African Americans out of the south to the "Promised Land" of the Northeast and Midwest.(negative and positive) -
Harlem Renaissance
Jazz age, general awakening of African American popular music (positive) -
Langston Hughes
Poet that wrote about how it what it was like growing up as an African American. (positive) -
Roaring Twenties
A period of economic prosperity and of new culture values. (positive) -
Return to Normalcy
A return to the way of life before WW1, Warren G. Hardings (positive) -
Charles Lindberg
First person to fly across Atlantic Ocean .(positive) -
Immigration Acts
Were designed to keep out immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe. (positive) -
Teapot dome scandal
One of the worst scandals in U.S. History (negative) -
Calvin Coolidge
Elected president after Hardings death (positive) -
Scopes "Monkey Trail"
It drew nationwide attention for pitting older religious beliefs against scientific theories. (positive) -
Clarence Dorrow
Attorney that defended Scopes. (positive) -
Henry Ford
An engineer and early Automobile manufacture. goal was to build cars people could afford (positive) -
Herbert Hoover
Skilled engineer and self made millionaire (positive) -
Rugged individualism
The belief that all individuals can succeed on their own and the government help for people should be minimal -
Prohibition
Protestants saw liquor as the cause of poverty and crime. Believed it would protect families, women, children from effects of alcohol abuse. (Negative) -
Twenty First Amendment
Repealed the 18th amendment and mandated prohibition on alcohol. (positive)
