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Increased Productivity
The United States was producing over half of the worlds goods due to the destruction of Europe -
Farm Problems
Farms faced crippling issues from the mass industrialization during the 20s. -
Election of 1920
Warren H. Harding won the election and marked the beginning of the Republican rule of the 1920s. -
Increase use of Oil and Electricity
The increase in demand for oil and electricity sparked huge economic expansion during the 1920s. -
1920's government
The government in the 1920's favored big business which helped to expand the U.S.'s economy -
Labor Issues
Industrial workers faced terrible working conditions. On the other hand their pay went up, but the labor unions were losing steam. -
Jazz Age
The emergence of jazz occurred in the 1920s. -
The Radio
The radio changed the way communication was distributed. -
Women
Women started to join the labor force in the 1920's. -
Rise in Divorce
Because of the changing cultural environment of the 1920's, women sought for more control in their relationships. -
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writer of the 1920s -
Ernest Hemmingway
An American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century. -
Sinclair Lewis
An American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. -
Ezra Pound
An expatriate American poet and critic, as well as a major figure in the early modernist movement. -
T.S. Eliot
A British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets". -
Harlem Renaissance
An intellectual, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. -
Duke Ellington
An American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years. -
Marcus Garvey
A proponent of Black nationalism in the United States and most importantly Jamaica. -
Countee Cullen
A prominent African-American poet, novelist, children's writer, and playwright during the Harlem Renaissance. -
Claude McKay
Jamaican writer and poet, who was a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance. -
Modernism
Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society. -
Fundamentalism
A religious connotation that indicates unwavering attachment to a set of irreducible beliefs. -
Prohibition
Prohibiting the sale and distribution of alcohol. -
Defying the Law
Speakeasy's became common as a result of prohibition. -
Nativism
Current US citizens didn't want new people to migrate into the US. -
Quota Laws
Limited the number of immigrants being allowed into the country. -
Election of 1924
In a three-way contest, incumbent Republican President Calvin Coolidge won election to a full term. -
Teapot Dome scandal
Harding's postwar presidency was marked by scandals and corruption. He also appointed incompetent people to his cabinet. -
Calvin Coolidge presidency
"The business of America is business." -
Election of 1928
When Coolidge decided not to run for a second term in 1928, the Republicans nominated Herbert Hoover. Even though he had never held elective office. -
Automobile
The emergence of the automobile changed and shaped the upcoming culture of the 20's. -
Stock Market Crash
A sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth. Crashes are driven by panic as much as by underlying economic factors. -
Federal Farm Board
It's powers were later enlarged to meet the economic crisis farmers faced during the Great Depression. -
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Great Depression
A severe worldwide economic depression. -
Dust bowl
A period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies. -
Debt moratorium
A delay in the payment of debts or obligations. -
FHA
US Federal Housing Administration mortgage insurance backed mortgage loan which is provided by an FHA-approved lender. -
Bank Holiday
Shut down the banks temporarily -
Industrial Recovery Program
A US labor law and consumer law passed by the US Congress to authorize the President to regulate industry for fair wages and prices that would stimulate economic recovery. -
Repeal of Prohibition
Prohibition was repealed and deemed unconstitutional.
