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Immigrants (1)
Ellis Island opened in 1892 as a federal immigration station. Millions of newly arrived immigrants passed through the station during that time. -
Prohibition (1)
The Anti-Saloon League was the leading organization lobbying for prohibition in the United States in the early 20th century. In 1895 it became a national organization and quickly rose to become the most powerful prohibition lobby in America, -
Religion (2)
The Churches of Christ were organized. Fundamentalism was rapidly growing in the Baptist Church and the Churches of Christ. -
1920's Culture (4)- Dancing
People saw the new dances in Hollywood movies and practiced them to music from phonograph records or to radio broadcasts before going out on the dance floors of nightclubs or school gymnasiums. Dancing was a major part of peoples entertainment and an important part of every party. -
1920's Culture (1)- Jazz Music
Jezz music began it's rise in the 1920's. Jazz is a music genre that originated from African American communities of New Orleans in the United States. It emerged in the form of independent traditional and popular musical styles. -
1920's Culture (2)- Movie Industry
The movie industry skyrocketed in the 1920s with the growth of Hollywood and downtown movie theaters. Silent films gradually came to be replaced by "talkies" in the late '20s. -
1920's Culture (3)- Technology
The Twenties witnessed the large scale use of automobiles, telephones, motion pictures, and electricity, accelerated consumer demand and aspirations, and marked significant changes in lifestyle and culture. -
1920's Culture (5)- Flappers
The flapper stereotype is one of short bobbed or shingled hair, straight loose knee-length dresses with a dropped waistline, silk or rayon stockings with garters, heavy makeup, and long beaded necklaces. Flappers are also associated with Jazz and 1920's dances like the Charleston. -
1920's African American Identity (1)
The Harlem Renaissance, a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanned the 1920s. The Harlem Renaissance was considered to be a rebirth of African American arts. -
1920's Economy (1)- Depression of 1920-21
There was a brief post–World War I recession. The economy started to grow, though it had not yet completed all the adjustments in shifting from a wartime to a peacetime economy. Factors identified as potentially contributing to the downturn include: returning troops which created a surge in the civilian labor force, a decline in labor union strife, changes in fiscal and monetary policy, and changes in price expectations. -
1920's African American Culture (2)
Christianity played a major role in the Harlem Renaissance. The article "The Catholic Church and the Negro Priest", also published in the Crisis Magazine, January 1920, demonstrates the obstacles African–American priests faced in the Catholic Church. -
Politics (5)- 18th Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment 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. -
1920's African American Culture (3)
A new way of playing the piano called the Harlem Stride style was created during the Harlem Renaissance, and helped blur the lines between the poor Negroes and socially elite Negroes.With adding the piano to the existing genre, the wealthy blacks now had more access to jazz music. -
1920's African American Identity (4)
During the Harlem Renaissance, Black America’s clothing scene took a dramatic turn from the prim and proper. Many young women preferred extreme versions of current white fashions - from short skirts and silk stockings to drop-waisted dresses and cloche hats. -
1920's Economy (4)- Farm Prices Fall
The price of wheat fell by almost half; the price of cotton fell by three-quarters. Farmers, many of whom had taken out loans to increase acreage and buy efficient new agricultural machines like tractors, suddenly could not make their payments; throughout the decade, farm foreclosures and rural bank failures increased at an alarming rate. -
1920's African American Idenity (5)
Visual artists played a key role in creating depictions of the New Negro. Alongside their counterparts in literature, music, and theater, painters exhibited bold, stylized portraits of African Americans during this period, as well as scenes of black life from a variety of perspectives. -
Religion (1)
The Lambeth Conference of 1920. The single most important action of this conference was to issue the "Appeal to all Christian People", which set out the basis on which Anglican churches would move towards visible union with churches of other traditions. -
Politics (5)- Election of 1920
This is the first election that women were allowed to vote in. The candidates were Calvin Coolidge and James M. Cox. This changed voting forever, more people were in the pool to vote and gave more power to the people. -
Immigrants (2)
The Emergency Quota Act restricted immigration into the United States. Although intended as temporary legislation, the Act "proved in the long run the most important turning-point in American immigration policy" because it added two new features to American immigration law: numerical limits on immigration and the use on immigration and the use of a quota system for establishing those limits. -
1920's Economy (5)- The Emergency Tariff Act
Due to the Underwood Tariff passed during the administration of President Woodrow Wilson, Republican leaders in the United States Congress rushed to create a temporary measure to ease the plight of farmers until a better solution could be put into place. The Emergency Tariff increased rates on wheat, sugar, meat, wool and other agricultural products brought into the United States from foreign nations, which provided protection for domestic producers of those item -
1920's Literature (2)- The Waste Land
The Waste Land is a long poem by T. S. Eliot. It is widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century. The poem shifts between voices of satire and prophecy featuring abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location, and time and conjuring of a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures. -
1920's Literature (5)- Babbit
Babbitt is a novel by Sinclair Lewis. Largely a satire of American culture, society, and behavior, it critiques the vacuity of middle-class American life and its pressure toward conformity. -
Politics (3)- Teapot Dome Scandal
This was a bribery incident during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding.The leases became the subject of a sensational investigation by Senator Thomas J. Walsh. Fall was later convict. The scandal damaged the public reputation of the Harding administration. -
1920's Economy (2)- Mellon's Plan
Mellon came into office with a goal of reducing the huge federal debt from World War 1. His plan consisted of cutting the top income tax rate from 77 to 24 percent, and cutting taxes on low incomes from 4 to 1/2 percent, reducing the federal estate tax. THis plan was blamed when America went into depression. -
Politics (1)- Immigration Act of 1924
This limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census. It completely excluded immigrants from Asia. -
1920's Literature (3)- The New Negro
The New Negro is an anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays on African and African-American art and literature edited by Alain Locke and taught at Howard University during the Harlem Renaissance. As a collection of the creative efforts coming out of the burgeoning New Negro Movement or Harlem Renaissance, the book is considered by literary scholars and critics to be the definitive text of the movement. -
1920's Literature (1)- Great Gatsby
This novel was written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. -
1920's Literature (4)- The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises is a novel written by American author Ernest Hemingway about a group of American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. An early and enduring modernist novel, it received mixed reviews upon publication. -
Politics (2)- Lum v. Rice
This is a Court case in which the Court held that the exclusion on account of race of a child of Chinese ancestry from a state high school did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The decision effectively approved the exclusion of minority children from schools reserved for whites. -
1920's Economy (3)- Great Depression Start
The stock market crash in October of 1929 caused America to go into a great depression. This sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
Stock Market Crash (1)
Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. -
Hoover's Policies (1)
The Hawley-Smoot Tariff which imposed even higher taxes on imports. Hoover believed that this would force Americans to buy American goods, but the plan back-fired. It simply made American exports even more difficult. -
Hoover's Policies (2)
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was a government corporation that operated between 1932 and 1957 which provided financial support to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations and other businesses. Its aim was to boost the country’s confidence and help banks return to performing daily functions after the start of the Great Depression. -
Stock Market Crash (2)
In 1932, Stocks were worth only about 20 percent of their value in the summer of 1929. The stock market crash of 1929 was not the sole cause of the Great Depression, but it did act to accelerate the global economic collapse of which it was also a symptom. -
New Deal Programs (3)
Civilian Conservation Corps. Sent 250,000 young men to work camps to perform reforestation and conservation tasks. Removed surplus of workers from cities, provided healthy conditions for boys, provided money for families. -
New Deal Programs (5)
Glass-Steagall Act. Created federally insured bank deposits ($2500 per investor at first) to prevent bank failures. -
New Deal Programs (4)
Federal Emergency Relief Act. Distributed millions of dollars of direct aid to unemployed workers. -
New Deal Programs (12)
Tennessee Valley Authority. Federal government build series of dams to prevent flooding and sell electricity. First public competition with private power industries -
New Deal Programs (1)
Agricultural Adjustment Act. Protected farmers from price drops by providing crop subsidies to reduce production, educational programs to teach methods of preventing soil erosion. -
New Deal Programs (8)
Public Works Administration. Received $3.3 billion appropriation from Congress for public works projects. -
New Deal Programs (6)
National Industrial Recovery Act. Created NRA to enforce codes of fair competition, minimum wages, and to permit collective bargaining of workers. -
New Deal Programs (2)
Civil Works Administration. Provided public works jobs at $15/week to four million workers in 1934. -
Prohibition (2)
The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol. -
Dust Bowl (1)
The dust bowl begins in 1934. the soil lacked the stronger root system of grass as an anchor, so the winds easily picked up the loose topsoil and swirled it into dense dust clouds, called “black blizzards.” -
New Deal Programs (10)
Securities and Exchange Commission. Regulated stock market and restricted margin buying. -
New Deal Programs (9)
Rural Electrification Administration. Encouraged farmers to join cooperatives to bring electricity to farms. Despite its efforts, by 1940 only 40% of American farms were electrified. -
Dust Bowl (2)
In response to the Dust Bowl, the federal government created the Soil Conservation Service formed in 1935 to promote farm rehabilitation. -
New Deal Programs (7)
National Youth Administration. Provided part-time employment to more than two million college and high school students. -
New Deal Programs (13)
Wagner Act. Allowed workers to join unions and outlawed union-busting tactics by management. -
New Deal Programs (11)
Social Security Act. Response to critics (Dr. Townsend and Huey Long), it provided pensions, unemployment insurance, and aid to blind, deaf, disabled, and dependent children.
