Stuart Hall 6th Grade History Chap 24
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- Ernest Hemingway
- One of the most popular writers of the 1920's who wrote "A Farewell to Arms"
- Scopes Trial
- John Scopes was a young biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee who taught his students Darwin's theory of evolution. His court trial made history.
- Henry Ford
- President of Ford Motor Company who introduced the assembly line in his factory to make the Model T more affordable.
- Helen Wills
- Famous tennis player in the 1920's.
- Jazz
- Black musicians created this kind of music from combined African rhythms and European harmonies, ragtime and blues.
- Alfred E. Smith
- Former governor of New York who ran for President against Herbert Hoover. He was against Prohibition.
- Charles Lindbergh
- Flew the airplane "The Spirit of St. Louis" for 33 1/2 hours across the Atlantic to Paris alone. He became a hero.
- Bull Market
- A rising stock market
- Sinclair Lewis
- Famous 1920's author who wrote Babbitt and Main Street - presented small town Americans as dull and narrow-minded.
- Langston Hughes
- A leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance. He wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "My People"
- Darwin's Theory
- Theory that says that all life evolved from simpler forms - the theory of evolution.
- Bootleggers
- People who illegally smuggled in alcohol from Canada & the Caribbean.
- Rudolph Valentino
- The most popular movie actor of the 1920's
- Teapot Dome Scandal
- Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall, one of the Ohio Gang, accped bribes from oil companies and was sent to prison.
- William Jennings Bryan
- Famous lawyer who argued against the teaching of evolution in the Scopes trial.
- V.I. Lenin
- Leader of Russia who created the world's first Communist state, the Soviet Union.
- Fad
- A style or activity that is popular for a short time.
- Radio
- Became popular in the 1920's. The first radio station began broadcasting in Pittsburgh in 1920. By 1929, more than 10 million families owned radios.
- Charles Forbes
- Part of the Ohio Gang who stole millions of dollars from the Veterans Bureau.
- Disarmament
- Reducing a nation's armed forces and weapons of war
- Marcus Garvey
- A popular Black leader who organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association. He started the Back to Africa movement.
- Prohibition
- A ban on making & selling alcohol anywhere in the United States.
- Charles Darwin
- He claimed that all life had evolved from simpler forms - the theory of evolution. Some churches said his teachings were against the Bible, so several states passed laws against teaching evolution.
- Gangsters
- Violent organized crime members who took over the job of supplying alcohol to speakeasies.
- Albert Fall
- The Secretary of the Interior who accepted bribes from an oil company and started the Teapot Dome Scandal.
- Countee Cullen
- Black writer who wrote about the experiences of African Americans. He graduated from Harvard and New York University and won prizes for his poetry.
- Ripple Effect
- Car sales spurred growth in other parts of the economy, including jobs, roads & highways, gas stations, hotels & restaurants.
- Kellogg-Briand Pact
- Treaty signed by the US and 61 other nations outlawing war. It didn't have any method for keeping the peace, so it had a fatal flaw.
- Thomas Edison
- He and George Eastman invented the first moving picture cameras in the late 1800's.
- George Eastman
- Invented the movie camera in the late 1800's with Thomas Edison.
- Clarence Darrow
- Famous lawyer who argued on behalf of John Scopes during the Scopes trial. He believed in evolution.
- Frank Kellogg
- Secretary of State who proclaimed peace in the Kellogg-Briand pact.
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Black writer who wanted to save African American folklore. She traveled all across the South collecting folk tales, songs & prayers of Black southerners. Her book was called Mules and Men.
- Harlem Renaissance
- A rebirth of African American culture. White Americans took notice of the achievements of Black artists.
- Anarchists
- People opposed to organized government.
- League of Women Voters
- An organization set up to educate women about politics and voting.
- The Ohio Gang
- Friends of Warren Harding that he brought in from Ohio to help him in his presidency.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- Head of the National Woman Suffrage Association who set up the League of Women Voters to educate voters.
- Ku Klux Klan
- White supremacist group who wanted to keep America white. They hated Blacks, Catholics and Jews, and all other immigrants.
- Bobby Jones
- Won almost every golf championship in the 1920's
- Talkies
- Movies with a sound track instead of silent action.
- Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
- A proposed amendment for women's rights that stated that "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by any State on account of sex." It never passed.
- Alice Paul
- A leading suffragist who worked tirelessly for passage of the ERA until her death in 1977. It never passed.
- On Margin
- Buying stock for a small down payment. This only worked as long as stocks kept rising.
- Babe Ruth
- The greatest baseball player of the 1920's. He set a record for hitting 60 home runs in one season.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Young writer who best captured the mood of the Roaring Twenties in this book "The Great Gatsby"
- Movies
- In the 1920's millions of Americans went to the movies at least once a week.
- Flappers
- Young women who rebelled agains traditional ways of thinking and acting in the 1920's. They wore their hair & dresses short, smoked and drank.
- Quota System
- Only a certain number of people from each country were allowed to enter the US because the government was afraid that anarchists & Communists would take over the country.
- Edna St. Vincnt Millay
- An enormously popular poet who expressed the frantic pace of the 1920's in her poetry.
- Red Scare
- Thousands of radicals were arrested and jailed by the government because they were feared to be Communists with a plot against the country.
- Speakeasies
- Illegal bars that were found in nearly every city and town after Prohibition.
- Sacco & Vanzetti Trial
- The trial of two Italian immigrants who were arrested for robbery and murder. They admitted they were anarchists, but said they were innocent of the crimes.
- Louis Armstrong
- A brilliant trumpet player who helped to create jazz.
- Calvin Coolidge
- Vice President who became President when Warren Harding died.