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Clarence Darrow
Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform -
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Great Migration
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Henry Ford
Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production -
Red Scare
Is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism. In the United States, the first Red Scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political. -
Eighteenth Amendment
he Eighteenth Amendment (Amendment XVIII) of the United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession) illegal -
Roaring Twenties
It was a period of sustained economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States, Canada and Western Europe. -
Return to Normalcy
A return to the way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G.Harding's campaign promise in the election of 1920. -
Prohibition
Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933. -
Flapper
Flappers were 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 -
Warren G. Harding's
Was 29th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1921 his death in 1923. -
Teapot Dome
Was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921-1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding's. -
Calvin Coolidge
John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was the 30th President of the United States. A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state. -
Immigration Acts
The Immigration Act made permanent the basic limitations on immigration into the United States established in 1921 and modified the National Origins Formula established then. In conjunction with the Immigration Act of 1917, it governed American immigration policy until the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which revised it completely. -
Scopes "Monkey Trail
The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. -
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover was an American politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933. -
Rugged Individualism
Rugged individualism was the phrase used often by Herbert Hoover during his time as president. It refers to the idea that each individual should be able to help themselves out, and that the government does not need to involve itself in people's economic lives nor in national economics in general. -
Eugenics
Eugenics is a set of beliefs and practices that aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population. -
21st amendment
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Tin Pan Alley
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Langston Hughes
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Marcus Garvey
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Charles Lindbergh
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Harlem Renaissance