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immigration (national census)
completely excluded immigrants from Asia. -
african american identity (jim crow laws)
enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
prohibition (Anti-Saloon League)
leading organization lobbying for prohibition in the United States -
african american identity (great migration)
blacks moved out of the southern states to get to the northern states. -
religion (aimee mcpherson)
founded the Foursquare Church and helped out the cause of fundamentalists -
prohibition (18th amendment)
it banned the distribution of alcohol in the united states -
african american identity (red summer)
hundreds of deaths and higher casualties across the United States, as a result of race riots -
african american identity (chicago race riot)
main event that sparked the red summer -
1920's literature (F Scott Fitzgerald)
a writer who captured in his stories the exciting but also unsettling ways American society was changing during the 1920s. -
1920's culture (flapper)
many young women of the age that wanted to have fun. -
1920's culture (the jazz age)
was the jazz and dance era of the united states -
1920's culture (technology)
the first commerical radio was invented -
1920's economy (roaring 20's)
an economic shift took place as the economy transitioned from wartime production to peacetime production. -
1920's economy (advertising)
capitalized on people's hopes and fears to sell more and more goods. -
1920's politics (election of 1920)
continued the debate between the nationalistic activism of Roosevelt's presidency and the global idealism of Wilson's administration. -
african american identity (rise of the ku klux klan)
to scare the african americans and show white supremecy -
1920's economy (consumerism)
buying on credit became popular -
1920's literature (tales of the jazz age)
showed what it was like during hte jazz age -
1920'a politics (italian economy)
Fascists maintained an armed paramilitary wing, which they employed to fight Anarchists, Communists, and Socialists. -
1920's economy (Coolidge Prosperity)
slashed taxes and supported legislation that encouraged private business -
1920's culture (consumer products)
the Ford Model T cost just $260. -
1920's politics (election of 1924)
Calvin Coolidge won in a landslide -
immigration (johnson reed act)
limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. -
religion (scopes monkey trial)
accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. -
1920's american literature (the great gatsby)
showed what it was like to live wealthy in the 1920's -
1920's culture (harlem renaissance)
name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s -
1920's literature (The Sun also Rises)
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. -
1920's politics (election of 1928)
Herbert Hoover won in a landslide -
stock market crash (wall street crash)
stocks more than quadrupled in value. -
1920's literature (a farewell to arms)
is about a first-person account of American Frederic Henry, serving as a Lieutenant in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army -
1920's economy (stock market)
this was when the stock market crashed -
1920's politics (herbert hoover)
many people blamed him for the stock market crash -
herbert hoover policies (hawley smoot tariff)
imposed even higher taxes on imports -
dust bowl (severe drought
As the crops die, the 'black blizzards" begin. -
herbert hoover policies ( Reconstruction Finance Corporation)
make grants and loans to state governments -
dust bowl (dust storms increasing)
causeds more destruction of homes -
new deal programs (glass steagall act)
Created federally insured bank deposits -
new deal programs (agricultural adjustment act)
it protected the farmers -
new deal programs (public works administration
Received $3.3 billion appropriation from Congress for public works projects. -
new deal programs (tennessee valley authority)
First public competition with private power industries -
new deal programs (Federal Emergency Relief Act)
Distributed millions of dollars of direct aid to unemployed workers. -
stock market crash (bank failure)
nearly half of America’s banks had failed, and unemployment was approaching 15 million people -
new deal programs (civil works administration)
provided public work jobs at $15 a week -
new deal programs (Civilian Conservation Corps
Removed surplus of workers from cities, provided healthy conditions for boys, provided money for families. -
new deal programs (securities and exchange commission)
it regulated the stock market -
new deal programs (national youth administration)
Provided part-time employment to more than two million college and high school students. -
new deal programs (wagner act)
allowed workers to join unions -
new deal programs (works progress administration)
employed 8.5 million workers -
new deal act (social security act)
it provided pensions unemployment insurance, and aid. -
new deal programs (Rural Electrification Administration)
Encouraged farmers to join cooperatives
