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Volstead Act
This act is the enabling legislation for the Eighteenth Amendment which established prohibition in the United States. -
The First Red Scare
This event started due to the fear of and reaction against political radicals in the U.S. in the years immediately following World War I. -
Jazz Age
This movement that took place during the Roaring Twenties where jazz music and dance emerged with the introduction of mainstream radio and the end of the war. -
The Age of Innocence
It was written by Edith Wharton, who was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, and expressed the sacastic images of innocence during the time. -
Great Migration
In this migration of the 1910s and 1920s, lots of blacks moved out of the South to the Northeast, Midwest, and West, hoping to find better jobs and opportunities. -
Harlem Renaissance
This event was a long term rennaissance that started in 1920 when writers, poets, painters, and musicians came together to express feelings and experiences, especially about the injustices of Jim Crow. -
The League of Nations
The League of Nations is established by the Treaty of Versailles with the purpose of ending the hostilities of the first World War. -
First Commercial Radio Station
The first commercial radio station, Pittsburgh's KDKA, appeared in the airwaves of 1920. -
Budget and Accounting Act passed
When it is passed, it became a landmark legislation that established the framework for the modern federal budget. -
Emergency Quota Act
It is a national quota system on the amount of incoming immigrants is established by the United States Congress that curbing legal immigration. -
A Congressional resolution by both houses is signed by President Warren G. Harding
This event declaring peace in World War I hostilities with Germany, Austria, and Hungary. -
The Waste Land
Written by T.S. Eliot it expressed images of a fragmented civilization in ruins after the war- influenced a generation of writers. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
This scandal happened because government oil reserves were secretly leased to oil compa. -
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
This tariff policy sharply raising tariff duties to protect the American market for American manufactures. -
The first sound on film motion picture Phonofilm
It is show in the Rivoli Theatre in New York City by Lee de Forest. -
Dawes Plan
This plan is an attempt in 1924 to solve the reparations problem. -
Ford Motor Company
The market capitalization of Ford Motor Company exceeds $1 billion due to its new technology in automobile. -
Felix Doubles for Darwin
It is the animated film that addressed the religion vs science issue in popular culture. -
Immigration Act of 1924
This act cut the quota down to 2% and the origins base was shifted to that of 1890, when few southeastern Europeans lived in America. -
The New Negro:An Interpretation
It was published by the author Alain Locke described the landscape of Harlem as filled by different notions of what it meant to be a black American. -
The Great Gatsby
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the novel depicting the picturesque idea of the self made American man and entrepreneur who rose from obscurity. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
In this trial, teacher John Scopes on trial for teaching evolution; raised countrywide debate on whether people believed in evolution or creationism -
Harlem Dream
This is one of Langston Hughes’s poem that expressed the earliest innovators of the new literary art form jazz poetry. -
The Sun Also Rises
Written by Ernest Hemingway and published in 1926, he wrote about disillusioned, spiritually numb American in Europe. -
The Jazz Singer
It was an American musical film that was a first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences. -
Invention of television
The first success in the invention of television occurs by American inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth. -
Home to Harlem
It was written by Claude McKay and expressed the African American characteristic during the Harlem Renaissance. -
Herbert Hoover's presidency
Herbert Hoover wins election as President of the United States. -
A Farewell to Arms
This is a novel written by Ernest Hemingway about a young man's growing disgust with war -
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
In Chicago, Illinois, gangsters working for Al Capone kill seven rivals and citizens in the act and showed the sign of flaws in prohibition. -
Hoover's Federal Budget
Hoover increased the federal budget he inherited to 3.3 billion in hopes of stimulating the economy. -
1st Wall Street Crash
This crash occurred was resulted of unregulated financial speculation, where U.S. banks made large loans to customers, but stock prices collapsed and they could not repay the banks. -
2nd Wall Street Market Crash
This crash occurred after the one on the 24th and the plummeting stock prices led to losses between 1929 and 1931 of an estimated $50 billion, which begins the worst American depression in the nation's history. -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
highest tariff in U.S. history. It raised duties on agricultural and manufactured imports. It may have contributed to the spread of international economic depression -
President Herbert Hoover asks the U.S. Congress to pass a $150 million
President Herbert Hoover asks the U.S. Congress to pass a $150 million public works project to increase employment and economic activity, in order to combat the growing depression. -
Dust Bowl started
This natural disaster occurred when severe drought hits the Midwestern and Southern Plains. -
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
It was created by the Emergency Conservation Work Act and put unemployed young men to work in the nation’s forests and parks. -
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
This organization provides work and cash relief for Americans struggling to get through the Great Depression. -
Public Works Administration (PWA)
President Roosevelt authorizes up to $238 million in Public Works Administration (PWA) funds for the Navy and because of the fund that he put to PWA, 32 naval vessels are built and many end up playing key roles during World War II. -
Civil Works Administration (CWA)
This program established by the New Deal during the Great Depression to rapidly create manual labor jobs for millions of unemployed workers. -
Securities Act of 1934
This act is signed into law by President Roosevelt and the law creates the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and gives the SEC regulatory and disciplinary powers. -
Communication Act of 1934
This law creates a centralized regulatory authority, the Federal Communications Commission, to oversee the communications industry. -
Federal Housing Administration (FHA).
This program was created when President Roosevelt signs the National Housing Act to facilitate greater lending for home construction, home purchasing, and home improvements. -
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
This program is created to provide jobs for unemployed Americans and to improve the nation’s infrastructure. -
Rural Electrification Admin (REA)
This program provides affordable electricity that would improve the standard of living and the economic competitiveness of the family farm. -
National Youth Administration (NYA)
It is a New Deal agency in the United States that focused on providing work and education for Americans between the ages of 16 and 25. -
National Labor Relations Act (or “Wagner Act”)
This law strengthens labor’s ability to unionize and, over the long term, makes labor-management relations less violent and administered by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). -
Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP)
This program was established to hire unemployed artists to create art for public places. -
Civil Aeronautics Authority (CAA)
This authority/ board urged airplane industry to improve and maintain safety standards; set up issuing and enforcing air traffic rules, licensing pilots, certificating aircraft, establishing airways, and operating and maintaining aids to air navigation or the behalf of the New Deal economic reform. -
The end of Dust Bowl
It was ended when the rain comes to cure the drought and became one of the cause that pulled out of the Depression.
