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Great Migration
Movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920. -
The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti
In 1921, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, both Italian-Americans, were convicted of robbery and murder. On April 9, 1927, Sacco and Vanzetti's final appeal was rejected, and the two were sentenced to death. -
Warren G. Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1921 until his death.1921- 1923, President who called for a return to normalcy following WWI. He had laissez-faire economic policies, and he wanted to remove the progressive ideals that were established by Wilson. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
1921, Scandal during the Harding administration involving the granting of oil-drilling rights on government land in return for money. Became a symbol of the scandals that occured when Harding was president. -
Cotton Club
The Cotton Club was a New York City night club located first in the Harlem neighborhood on 142nd St & Lenox Ave from 1923 to 1935 and then for a brief period from 1936 to 1940 in the midtown Theater District. It was peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famous. -
Calvin Coolidge
Coolidge repalced the corrupt Harding, restoring honesty to the presidency. He was a pro-buisness president, and continued the laissez-faire policies of Harding.He took office on August 3, 1923, following the sudden death of President Warren G. Harding. -
Dawes Plan
The American plan to loan money to Germany, who would pay their reparations to France and Britain, who would pay back their debt to America, which created a win-win for everyone, and made they people happy and thought that peace was possible, Post-WW I depression in Germany left it unable to pay reparation and Germany defaulted on its payments in 1923. In 1924, U.S. Vice President Charles Dawes formulated a plan to allow Germany to make its reparation payments in annual installments. This plan w -
Immigration Quota Act
This was passed in 1924 which cut quotas for foreigners from 3% to 2% of the total number of immigrants. The main purpose was to freeze America's existing racial composition which was largely Northern European. It also prevented Japanese immigration which led to fury in Japan. -
Scopes Trial
1925 court case in which Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan debated the issue of teaching evolution in public schools. -
Herbert Clark Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States. He was a professional mining engineer and was raised as a Quaker. Republican candidate who assumed the presidency in March 1929 promising the American people prosperity and attempted to first deal with the Depression by trying to restore public faith in the community., He looked to the businesses to help solve the Depression, rather than the government. Americans felt he did little to help them. -
Black Tuesday
October 29, 1929, It was the day that the New York Stock Exchange crashed. This was a result because of inflated stock prices, they were too costly and much higher than thier worth. Therefure their worth plummeted, resulting in people loosing their money. However, many people had borrowed money to hold a high-priced stock, so they ended up bankrupt. The whole purchusing items on credit was a serious culprit in causing the crash. Black Tuesday marked the beginning of the Great Depression. -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
1930, Charged a high tax for imports thereby leading to less trade between America and foreign countries along with some economic retaliation., The highest import tax in history, raised the duty to almost 60%. Since the tariff was so high that European producers loose the American market so they put a high tariff up in their countries. Americans were producing so much that they need to trade but the new European tariffs were hurting them. Ultimately it destroyed the trading network with Europe. -
Dust Bowl
Farmers in Great Plains exhaust land
through overproduction.1930s, drought, windstorms hit; soil
scattered for hundreds of miles.Many farm families migrate to Pacific
Coast states -
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC was an independent agency of the United States government, chartered by the Hoover administration in 1932. It grated over 2 billion dollars to local and state governments. Such as making loans to banks, insurance companies, and railroads. Furthermore it inteded to provide emergency funds to help buisnesses overcome the effects of the Depression. Later, it was used to finance wartime projects during WWII. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the President of the United States from 1933 to 1945. know as FDR two term governor of New York and a distant cousin of former president Teddy Roosevelt, worked ot combat the problems of unemployment and poverty
