The Roaring Twenties
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- sacco and vanzetti
- trial of nicola sacco and bartolomeo vanzetti who were both italian and who were tried for robbery and murder and convicted and kill
- charlie chapman
- physical comdian
- sinclair lewis
- from sauk centre, mn who wrote main street which is about sauk centre (called gopher prairie) and small towns that are dull and narrow minded and babbitt which later was a name for a smug businessperson
- scopes trial
- john scopes was tried for teaching evolution to a class he was found guilty and fined. trial between religion and science
- coolidge prosperity
- coolidge cut regulations on business and named business leaders as head of government agencies. as american income rose people bought more products. this also started the idea of installment buying
- charles lindbergh
- pilot who was the 1st to fly across the atlantic ocean alone and nonstop. his plane was called the spirit of st. louis and he was from little falls, mn and he married ann morrow
- stock
- share in company
- drys
- people who didn't drink
- the jazz singer
- 1st movie with sound
- carrie nation
- head of Women's Christian Temperance Union that protested the drinking of alcohol
- herbert hoover
- secretary of commerce for harding who later became president because people thought that he would continue the prosperity in the country
- 21st amendment
- repealed prohibition
- wets
- people who drank and smuggled alcohol
- pamplona
- bull fighting
- gertrude ederle
- 1st woman to swim across the english channel at 18
- league of women voters
- started by carrie chapman catt that educates voters
- prohibition
- banning of the selling transporting or manufacturing of alcohol. alcohol was banned by the 18th amendment but did not pertain to churches
- margin
- by buying stock on margin people were able to get the stock and not have to pay full price until the stock rose and they could pay it off
- bear market
- means the stock market is going down
- nellie taylor ross
- 1st woman governor
- marcus garvey
- african american leader who started the go back to africa movement and the universal negro improvement association
- scott japlin
- starter of rag time
- zora neale hurston
- writer who wrote their eyes were watching god
- andrew mellon
- secretary of treasury for harding
- speak easies
- illegal bars that were given the name because you had to give a password to get in
- g men
- government agents that inforced prohibition
- dwight morrow
- father of ann morrow who is sent to mexico to settle a dispute
- al capone
- famous organized crime leader who supplied liquor
- eugene o'neill
- playwriter born in nyc won nobel prize for literature and wrote emperor jones, desire under the elms, iceman cometh, and long days journey into night
- jack dempsey
- boxer born in manassa, colorado and called manassa mauler
- canada dry
- soft drink that was named because people thought we were going to drink canada dry from all the smuggling
- charles forbes
- friend of harding who took money from the veterans bureau
- warren harding
- president in 1921 who elected his friends to the cabinet positions and they all ended up in scandals
- flappers
- women who rebelled against society and drank, smoked, wore short skirts, wore red lipstick, drove cars, and wore short hair
- ernest hemingway
- born in chicago who wrote farewell to arms which is about an ambulance driver in WWI, the sun rises which is about expatriate americans in europe, and the old man and the sea which is about an old man and a boy
- douglas fairbanks
- actor
- dow jones industrial average
- the average of 30 large coporations stock value
- ohio gang
- name given to the friends of harding in the cabinet
- f. scott fitzgerald
- born in st. paul and married zelda who was mentally unstable and wrote the great gatsby which is about the successes and failures in the 1920s
- kellogg briand pact
- named for frank kellogg a mn senator and is a pact that outlaws war
- installment buying
- when you only put down a certain amount of the cost and then pay the rest back later with interest. this increased debt
- election of 1928
- republican canidate- herbert hoover, democrat canidate- alfred smith. election showed the prejudices of americans
- quota system
- certain percentage of immigrants could come to us. favored northern europe, harsher on eastern europe, didn't allow japanese, and didn't apply to canada or latin america
- disarmament
- countries after WWI agreed to reduce the amount of arms they had
- calvin coolidge
- born in vermont who first becomes the governor of vermont before he becomes president
- thomas eddison
- invented stock tickers and made the 1st movies
- alice paul
- thought of the equal rights amendment but it never got ratified
- edna st. vincent millay
- poet
- babe ruth
- baseball star who was nicknamed the sultan of swat
- lost generation
- many of the people who came back from the war
- teapot dome scandal
- albert fall who was one of hardings friends gave government land to oil companies for mining. albert fall became the first cabinet person to be sent to jail
- al jolson
- actor in jazz singer
- langston hughes
- poet who wrote let america be america
- louis armstrong
- started jazz by experimenting with the notes and rhythm
- new klan
- many members jon because of the immigrant scare. went on the WASP belief- white, anglo, saxon, protestant
- harold red grange
- football star called galloping ghost who later went to play for the chicago bears
- bull market
- means the stock market is going up
- henry ford
- introduced assembly line to factories which made process faster which made price go down