History-the 1920's (chapters 24,25)
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- Marcus Garvey
- United Negro Improvement Association, "Back to Africa", militant approach to black problems
- Washington Naval Arms Conference
- Britain, US, and Japan, agree to demilitarize their naval forces
- Henry Ford
- assembly line production system
- Charles Evan Hughes
- secretary of state for Harding
- Gene Tunney
- boxing hero
- "The Jazz Singer"
- first speaking movie
- Arthur Mellon
- secretary of treasury for Harding
- Al Smith
- first Catholic to run for president in 1928 (vs. Hoover) "wet", Democrat
- National Origins Act of 1924
- replaced Quota Act, 164,000 immigrants per year, said each country could send 2% of what was sent in 1890 (to favor "old immigrants"), no Asians, didn't limit American countries
- National Broadcasting Company (CBN)
- fist national radio station
- Quota Act of 1921
- 350,000 immigrants per year
- Clarence Darrow
- lawyer from ACLU who represented John T. Scopes
- Jim Thorpe
- 1912 Olympic hero, Indian-American
- Jeanette Rankin
- first women elected to congress
- Calvin Coolidge
- "Silent Cal", took over presidency after harding died
- Amos & Andy
- radio show, dressed up as blacks
- KDKA Pittsburgh
- fist radio station
- Scabs
- people who work during a strike
- Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
- Langston Hughes, Gwendalyn Brooks
- Saco & Vanzetti
- Italian immigrants, robbed shoe factory, sentenced to electric chair, caused riots
- Herbert Hoover
- secretary of commerce for Harding
- Teapot Dome Scandal
- government lands with oil could be used by private companies for a fee, many government workers took bribes
- Charles Forbes
- chairman of Veterans Affairs, had to flee country after stealing government money
- "The Birth of a nation"
- movie, KKK heroes
- Albert Tall
- involved in teapot dome scandal, secretary of the interior for Harding