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The Stock Market
The stock market is a stock in which shares are traded between companies and people and people buy trades and can make money off of them. -
Dow Jones Average
The DJA ( Dow Jones Average) is a price weighted average of 30 significant stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange. -
The Model T
The Model T was built by Henry Ford. It was the first affordable car for all Americans. 15 million Model T's were made in Detroit, Michigan at the Ford factory, They didn't start to get popular until the 1920's when people could buy on credit and they had stocks in their names . -
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The Jazz Age
The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920's in which jazz music and dance styles became very popular in the United States. Jazz originated in New Orleans and began to thrive from there. The most famous Jazz musician is Louis Armstrong. -
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Red Scare
The red scare was the fear of the communist taking over the United States of America. The first red scare had to deal with socialist. -
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Prohibition
The prohibition was the ban of alcohol by the 18th Amendment. It banned the consumption and production of all alcoholic beverages. People began to consume and produce alcohol even though it was illegal. Later on, the government created the 21st amendment which repelled the 19th amendment. -
KKK ( Klu Klux Klan)
The KKK is group that focuses on white supremacy and are anti-terrorist. They also are anti-black and anti-catholic. The KKK grew in this era because the blacks were starting to be able to work in the factories and there weren't many jobs available. The racist whites banned together to get the immigrants and blacks away from the south so they could have jobs. -
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The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a period of time where the blacks moved from the South to the North to New York. They introduced new types of music, culture, and lifestyle to the people of New York. They lived in Harlem, Queens, and the Bronx. -
Jim Thorpe
Jim Thorpe was an Native-American athlete and Olympic gold medalist. He was the first President of the American Professional Football Association (APFA) later known as the NFL. -
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Film Industry
The American Film industry started of small. With only a couple of theaters, people had to travel across the country to go to one. Eventually, the government noticed how wanted the the theaters were that they distributed 5,000 nationwide for people to be able to travel locally to a movie theater. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place during the presidency of Warren G. Harding. Senator Thomas J. Walsh was accepting bribes from oil companies. -
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The Consumer Economy
The consumer economy is an economy driven by a consumer spending a percent of its gross domestic product. This included buying on credit. The government and society was very dependent on this in the 1920's because this was how they got money in their pockets. We are still dependent on it today. -
Chalres Linderburgh
Charles Linderburgh was an american aviator who made the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. -
Black Tuesday
This day in America stock prices complete collapsed becoming a great factor in the Great Depression. -
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart was an American aviator who was the first female to fly across the Atlantic Ocean nonstop. Later, she tried to fly around the world but mysteriously disappeared.
