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Henry Ford
Was an engineer and early automobile manufacturer. He introduced the assembly line in 1914. Increasing production by moving cars along a conveyor belt while workers completed their assigned tasks. -
Frances Willard
she was elected as president of the national women's temperance union, she avocade women's rights, suffrage prison reform for women and eight-hour workday and improved working conditions in factories and she organized the "prohibition" -
Prohibition
protestant reformers often saw liquor as the cause of poverty and crime. many women's organizations championed an end to selling alcoholic drinks, believing this would protect families from the effects of alcohol abuse. -
Marcus Garvey
A highly contriversial political activist known for his fiery rhetoric and fancy uniforms. Garvey emphasized racial pride. (Positive) -
Langston Hughes
A poet and writer expressing this new pride in their heritage while attacking racism. -
Charles Lindbergh
The first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927. He did this in a single-engine plane. (Positive) -
Tin Pan Valley
Was a section of New York city the area where song writing and musical ideas mixed together to form American popular music. (positive) -
Great Migration
The great migration was a movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural southern US to urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910-1970 (Negative) -
eighteenth amendment
consisted by prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages. The work of Willard and other reformers had created efficient pressure to persuade enough states to ratify it -
Eugenics
Eugenics was a pseudo- scientific belief that the human race could be improved by breeding. (Positive) -
Flapper
Flappers were a generation of young women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to Jazz, and flaunted their distain for what was considered acceptable behavior.(Positive) -
Warren Harding
He was elected president by a landslide in 1920, he captured the national spirit when he called for a "return to normalcy" as his campaign slogan. (positive) -
Calvin Coolidge
He symbolized the old fashioned values of honesty and thrift. He spoke so infrequently in public that he became known as silent in cal but he received much of the credit for the business expansion of the 1920. (Positive) -
Harlem Renaissance
The name given to cultural, social, and artistic explosion , Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artist, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars. (Negative) -
Herbert Hoover
Was skilled engineer and self made millionaire. During the war, he oversaw U.S food production and rugged individualism as Hoover called it, spurred progress and was the foundation of Americas "unparalleled greatness". -
Rugged Individualism
Hoover was impressed by achievements of business in raising American living standards. He believed this had come about because of a system in which individuals were given equal opportunities, a free education and a will to succeed. -
Return to Normalcy
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Red Scare
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Teapot Dome Scandal
