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Charlie Chaplin
Academy Award-winning English comedic actor and filmmaker, Chaplin became one of the most famous actors as well as a notable filmmaker, composer and musician in the early to mid "Classical Hollywood" era of American cinema. Starring in films like Gold Rush and A Woman in Paris. -
The Lost Generation
A term used by people to describe the people lost in WW1 and their inability to reintegrate into society. -
KKK
The KKK supported white supremacy, white nationalism, anti-immigration, and anti-communist. Members wore white robes, masks and hats to be outlandish and terrifying, to hide their identities. Also introducing cross burnings. -
The Red Scare
Fear of communists, radicals and leftist during the 1920s in the U.S. -
Volstead Act
Enacted to carry out the Eighteenth Amendment which prohibited the production, sale, and transport of liquors but it did not define intoxicating liquors or provide penalties. It granted both the federal government and the states the power to enforce the ban. -
Palmer Raids
Led by A. Mitchell palmer who believed that communism was eating its way through American homes and conducted raids on radicals and leftists jailing over 6,000 people and deporting 249. -
Flappers
Considered a “new breed” of young Western women who wore short skits, bibbed their hair, listened to jazz, wore excessive makeup, drank, smoke, and treated sex as being casual. -
Marcus Garvey
He was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur and orator who was a black nationalist and participated in Pan-Africanism movements. He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. (UNIA-ACL) -
Jazz Age
Jazz music and dance that became popular in the U.Ss, Britain, France and elsewhere. It played a significant role in cultural changed and influenced pop culture afterwards. -
Al Capone
Al Capone was best known for his rise to power in the Chicago mafia during the prohibition era. Before being imprisoned he had amassed a personal wealth of 100 million dollars from running gambling, prostitution, and bootlegging. -
Prohibition
A national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol led by both political parties, and was coordinated by the Anti-Saloon League. The ban was mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, and the Volstead Act set down the rules for enforcing the ban and defined the types of alcoholic beverages that were prohibited. -
Election of Harding
Harding was a conservative republican with the campaign slogan "a return to normalcy" which gave him the win in the election. Harding admittedly told his peers that being the president was beyond him and let his secretaries (Charles Evans Hughes, Andrew Mellon, and Herbert hoover) take the wheel. -
Emergency Quota Act
Restricted immigration to 3% of current residents from the same country. -
Washington Naval Conference
The world’s largest naval powers gathered in Washington for a conference to discuss naval disarmament and a way to relive tensions in east Asia. -
Five-Power Naval Treaty
Called for signatory countries maintain a set ratio warship tonnage. -
Four Power Treaty
Agreement that signatory countries were to consult each other in the event of a future crisis in Asia. -
Nine-Power Treaty
The final treaty at the Washington naval conference that marked the internalization of the U.S. open door policy with China. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
Secretary on the interior albert b. fall leased navy petroleum reserves at teapot dome, Wyoming and two other locations in Cali. To private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. -
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
Tariff enacted to protect Americans farms and factories. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a literary, artistic and intellectual movement for a new black cultural identity. At the time it was known as the “New Negro Movement” and was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. -
Adkins vs. Children's Hospital
Supreme Court case in which women working at a D.C. children’s hospitals were being paid less than minimum wage. They sued and the court ruled that minimum wages for women be raised. -
Duke Ellington
Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big-band leader who wrote over 1,000 compositions. He became a major figure during this time period for jazz, although his music stretched into various other genres including blues, gospel, film scores, popular and classical. His career spanned more than 50 years and included leading his orchestra, composing songbooks, scoring for movies, composing stage musicals and going on world tours. -
Dawes Plan
The Dawes Plan was proposed by the Dawes Committee as an attempt to solve the reparations problem. The four points of the plan was one for the Ruhr area to be evacuated by Allied troops, two reparation payments would begin at one billion, increasing annually to two and half billion marks after five years, three the Reichsbank would be organized under Allied supervision and four the sources for the reparation money would include transportation, excise and custom taxes. -
Immigration Act
Further limited immigration to 2% of current residents from the same country, it also excluded Asian immigrants. -
The Great Gatsby
Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald that captured the essence of the roaring twenties. -
Scopes Trial
A case of the State of Tennessee vs. John Thomas Scopes where a high school teacher named John Scopes was accused of violating Tenseness’s Butler Act. The Act made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state-funded school. -
Gertrude Ederle
She was called ''America's best girl'' by President Calvin Coolidge in 1926 after she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. Men had to take Ederle seriously, because she beat the records of the five men who had previously made the swim from 1875 to 1923. -
Charles Lindbergh
An American pilot and the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean which made him one of America's early celebrity heroes. He received a New York ticker-tape parade, and newspapers covered his every move. -
Model T
An automobile that was produced by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company from September, 1908 to October, 1927, it is regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car that opened travel to the common middle-class. On May 26th, 1927 Ford watched the 15 millionth model produced. -
Sacco and Vanzetti case
Italian-Americans Niccola, Sacco, and Bartolameo Vanzetti had been accused of robbery and murder. Arguments against the two had been largely disproven, however they were both known radicals. Their final appeal was rejected and they were put to death on April 9th 1947. -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
International agreement in which signatory states agreed not to use war to solve disputes or conflicts. -
Election of Hoover
In the presidential election of 1928, Hoover easily won the Republican nomination even though he had no elected-office experience. Hoover and William Howard Taft are the only two presidents to be presidents without electoral experience of high military rank. -
Eledtion of Coolidge
Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts and was nominated by the republican for vice president with Harding. Following Harding’s death Coolidge took office and was a pop. Figure with the public because of his obvious integrity and simple American values. -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
The Tariff was sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative William C. Hawley that raised tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels. The overall level of tariffs under the act was the highest in 100 years. The tariff regulated commerce with foreign countries, and reduced American exports and imports by more than half. -
Hoover-Stimson Doctrine
The Doctrine declared that any territorial acquisition not in accord with existing treaties would not be recognized by the United States. However, it had no effect on Japanese aggression in China, and other nations did not provide the support needed for the doctrine to have significance. -
Reconstruction Fiance Corporation (RFC)
An Independent agency of the U.S. government, 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, mortgage associations and other businesses. -
Bonus Army
A march led by Walter W. Waters (a former army sergeant) with 43,000 marchers-17,000 World War I veterans, their families, other groups. They demanded early cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. Attorney General William D. Mitchell ordered the police to remove them and when they came back, the police shot and killed 2 veterans that rushed them. -
Sigmund Freud
Often seen as psychology's most prominent figure. Influential works included: The Interpretation of Dreams, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Totem and Taboo, Civilization and its Discontents, and The Future is an Illusion. His works included subjects on sex, dreams, religion, women, and culture. Theories included the stages of psychosexual development, the id ego and super ego, the defense mechanisms, and the Freudian slip.
