Chapter 24
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- Sacco and Vanzetti
- In 1920 these two men were convicted of murder and robbery. They were found guilty and died in the electric chair unfairly
- Charles Evans Hughes
- when the gathering took place, he proposed destruction of specific vessels to achieve an agreed-upon ration of ships among the world's naval powers
- Langston Hughes
- wrote the Weary Blues
- Willa Cather
- produced a series of novels that implicitly repudiated modern mass society by evoking alternatives raging from NM.
- Progressive Party
- It was revived after 1922 when labor farm groups formed the Conference of Progressive Political Action which helped defeat a number of conservative Rep candidates and met in Cleveland in 1924
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- According to him, around 1922 adults began to imitate the rebelliousness of the young
- Monkey trial
- John Scopes trial became known as this. • Clarence Darrow headed the ACLU's team of lawyers, and William Jennings Bryan eagerly accepted an invitation to assist the prosecution
- Marcus Garvey
- Many poor urban blacks turned to him. He was head of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and he urged black economic cooperation and founded a chain of UNIA grocery stores and other business
- George Gershwin
- One of the white composers who wrote in a jazz idiom. He wrote Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris.
- John T. Scopes
- • When the Tennessee legislature in 1925 outlawed the teaching of evolution in the public schools, the American Civil Liberties Union volunteered to defend any teacher willing to challenge this law. He accepted the offer. Scopes read to his class a textbook description of Darwin's theory and his arrest followed
- Al Smith
- He ran for president. He was a "wet" and represented progressivism's urban immigrant component through his championing of social welfare and civil rights.
- Sinclair Lewis
- Wrote novels like Main Street 1920 which depicted the cultural barrenness and smug self-satisfaction of a fictional midW farm town.
- Duke Elington
- Along with Louis Armstrong, he some of the most creative work. He was talented black pianist, composer, and band
- Alice Paul
- head of the National Woman's party that campaigned for an equal rights amendment to the Constitution. She opposed legislation protecting women workers because such laws implied women's inferiority. Most condemned her way of thinking.
- Robert La Follette
- The Progressive Party adopted a prolabor platform that called for govn't ownership of railroads and water-power resources and he was the candidate for president
- Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1930
- pushed rates to all-time highs, benefiting domestic manufacturers
- Charles A. Lindbergh
- In 1927, this young pilot was the first to fly across the Atlantic
- Teapot Dome
- In 1924 Charles Forbes and Daugherty made secret deals with oilsmen leasing government oil reserves in Elk Hills
- "drys"
- These people were usually native born Protestants who praised prohibition as a necessary and legitimate social reform
- "wets"
- These people were usually liberals, alienated intellectuals, Jazz Age rebels, big-city immigrants, condemned prohibition as outrageous moralistic meddling.
- Washington Naval Arms Conference
- After the War the US, GB, and Japan edged toward a naval-arms race that none of them really wanted or could afford. In 1921 P Harding called for a conference to deal with the problem
- Harlem Renaissance
- In the 1920s a literary movement in which gifted young writers produced an outpouring of novels, poems, and short stories exploring the black experience.
- Volstead Act 1919
- This law that established a Prohibition Bureau within the Treasury Department was under budgeted and largely ineffective, especially in strongly anti-prohibition states
- Henry Ford
- introduced the low priced Model T in 1908 and by 1916 700,000 had been sold.
- Thomas Hart Benton
- A moralist who evoked a vanished, half-mythic America of cowboys, pioneers, and riverboat gambles, Edward Hopper starkly portrayed a nation of faded small towns and lonely cities
- Andrew W. Mellon
- Appointed as cabinet member by Harding as compensation for his lack of qualifications .
- McNary-Haugen bill
- a complicated price-support plan under which the govn't would annually purchase the surplus of 6 basic farm commodities, cotton, corn, rice, hogs, tobacco, and wheat, and sold them on the world market at prevailing prices
- Andrew Mellon
- Thanks to him, Congress lowered the income- tax rates for the wealthy and balanced the fed budget every year
- National Origins Act 1924
- slashed the total to 164,000 and restricted immigration from any one nation to 2% of the total number of persons of that national origin already living in the US in 1890