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The lost Generation
The lost generation was a generaltion of writers that came during world war I. Popualrized by authors like Ernest Hemingway. these authors write about searching for the meaning of human existence, which is why they were called lost -
The Red Scare
the promotion of fear of a potential communist take over in the 1920s. The fist real threat was in 1919 when a plot to mail 36 bombs to prominent members of the U.S. political and economic establishment. -
The Volstead Act
The Volstead Act gave Congress the ability to enforce prohibition. However, this did not stop many people from drinking. It actually became fashionable to defy the law at "speakeasies" -
Palmer Raids
The Palmer Raids were attempts by the U.S. Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical communists, especially anarchists from the U.S.Deported more than 500 foreign citizens including some prominent communist leaders. -
Sacco and Vanzetti Case
Factory worker and fish peddler Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Ferdinando Nicola Sacco were accused of murder and convicted by a prejudice jury and judge. The accused were Italian, Atheists, and draft dodger. they were sent to the electric chair in 1927. -
Jazz Age
Jazz thrived in the US during the 1920s giving African Americans pride. In result of the pride, Marcus Garvey founded the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) to resettle blacks in Africa Africa. The UNIA sponsored many Black run buisnesses. -
Al Capone
An American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate.
Gave the idea to many americans that alcohol should be legal. Capone also donated alot of money to support his cause. -
Sigmund Freud
sigmund Freud was one of the tril blazers for modern day physcology. He was the origanator of odern day physoanalysis. He also distinguished himself as an intlectual giant. -
Teapot dome Scandal
Was a bribery incident that took place in the U.S. from 1920-1923. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. -
Flappers
a new breed 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 Renaissence
was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the New Negro Movement, named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. -
Prohibition
was a national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol, in place from 1920 to 1933. -
Charlie Chaplin
was a British comic actor and filmmaker who rose to fame in the silent era. Chaplin became a worldwide icon through his screen persona the Tramp and is considered one of the most important figures of the film industry. -
Emergency Quota Act 1921
Restricted immigration in to the U.S. although intended as temporay legislation, the act proved in the long run to be the most important turning point in U.S. immigration policy. -
Five-Power Naval Treaty
the Five-Power Treaty was a treaty among the major nations that had World War I, which by terms of the traty agreed to prevent an arms race by limiting naval construction -
Election of Harding
Harding was elected in 1923 and was the 29th president. He made Herbert Hoover his secratsry of commerce, Cahrales Evens hughs his secratary of state, andrew Mellon his secratary of treasury, and got William Taft nominated to the senate. -
Washington Naval Conference
the Washington Naval conference was a military conference called by Warren G. Harding. It was attending by 9 other nations, and it was rreguarding the interests of the Pacictic Ocean and EAST Asia. -
Four Power Treaty
a traty signed by the U.s., Grreat Britain, France, and Japan to respect the Pacific holdings of other countries. -
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
raised U.S. tariffs in order to protect factories and farms. -
Nine-Power Treaty
A treaty affirming the sovereignty of territorial integrity of China as per the Open door Policy -
Adkins v. Childrens Hospital
A U.S. supreme court decsion opinion holding that federal minimum wage legislation for women was an unconstatuntional infringement of liberty of contract -
Duke Ellington
was an American composer, pianist, and big-band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions. A major figure in the history of jazz. -
Elction of Coolidge
Coolidge was vp and was under Warren G. Harding and became president when Harding died in office. Coolidge was given credit for the booming economy and no crises abroad. -
Dawes Plan
was an attempt in 1924 to solve the reparations problem, which had bedeviled international politics following World War I. -
KKK/ Birth of a Nation
was a group made of white anglo-saxon protestants who were hostile to African americans, Catholics, Jews, Communists, and foreigners. The birth of a nation was a pro racsim and kkk film. -
Marcus Garvey
was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. -
Immigration Act of 1924
A U.S. federal law that limited the number of immigrab=nts coming into the U.s. by only allowing 2% of the people from that country who were already in the U.S. to enter in 1890 -
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby was a novel written by F. Scott Ftzgerald. It summed up the extreme decadence of the 1920s. -
Scopes Trial
a famous American legal case in 1925 in which a high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state-funded school. -
Gertrude Ederle
was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. In 1926, she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. -
Charles Lindbergh
was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. He also made the first non stop over night plane flight. -
Model T (Ford)
an automoble produced by Henry ford's company. it was considered the first affordable car, it really got people out of their houses. -
Kellog-Briand Pact
an inter national agreement in which signatory states promised not to use was to resolve disputes or conflicts of any nature. -
The election of Herbert Hoover
Hoover enforced prohibition and could not fix the economic spiral. Hoover was also a large Civil Rights activist. Hoover was the 31st President of the United States. -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
was an act sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels. -
Hoover-Stimson Doctrine
a policy of the United States federal government, enunciated in a note to Japan and China, of non-recognition of international territorial changes that were executed by force. -
Reconstruction Finanace Corporation
an independent agency of the United States government. It was modeled after the War Finance Corporation of World War I. The agency gave $2 billion in aid to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations and other businesses. -
Bonus Army
was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers 17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand early cash-payment redemption of their service certificates.
