Twenties
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- new morality
- personal freedom.
- cost of living
- the cost of food, clothing, shelter, and other essentials that people need to survive
- What did attorney General Harty Daugherty do that led to his resignation?
- Daugherty's controversial three years in office saw his name surface in connection with veterans bureau irregularities, alien property conspiracies, as well as his role in the pardoning of Eugene V. Debs and Charles W. Morse. However it was his alleged knowledge of a kickback scam involving bootlegers (operated by his chief aid Jess Smith) that led to his eventual resignation
- Great migration
- movement of many african americans to northern cities from the south in the early 1900s
- .After WW1, what seemed to be the way most Americans wanted to avoid future wars?
- They made the league of nations
- How did Coolidge become president.
- Harding died in office
- 5 part naval limitation treaty
- Signed by the United States, Great Britain, Japan, France, and Italy on Feb. 6, 1922, grew out of the opening proposal at the conference by U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes to scrap almost 1,900,000 tons of warships belonging to the Great Powers. This bold disarmament proposal astonished the assembled delegates, but it was indeed...
- orville wright
- revolution--number of business school middle class orville wright--Made worlds first successful powered airplane flight.
- communist international
- was an international Communist organisation founded in Moscow in March 1919.
- reparations
- The act of making amends for wrongdoing. May include payments made by a defeated enemy to countries whose territory was damaged during a war
- harlem renaissance
- named after the anthology The New Negro, edited by Alain Locke in 1925.[citation needed] Centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the movement impacted urban centers throughout the United States
- marcus garvey
- founder of United Negro Improvement Association ;; promotes resettlement of American blacks to own "African homeland", sponsored stores & businesses to keep $ in blacks' pockets ;; inspiration for Nation of Islam
- deportation
- an official order telling someone to leave a country;expulsion
- evolution
- he change in the physical and genetic characterisitics of a species over time
- What was the first commercial radio broadcast about?
- Read the results of the presidential election
- emergency quota act
- A government legislation that limited the number of immigrants from Europe which was set at 3% of the nationality currently in the U.S. It greatly limited the number of immigrants who could move to the U.S. And it reflected the isolationist and anti-foreign feeling in America as well as the departure from traditional American ideals.
- Return to normalcy
- was U.S. Presidential candidate Warren Harding's campaign promise in the election of 1920.
- teapot dome scandel
- Harding's Secertary of the Interior, Albert B. Fall, secretly allowed private interest to lease lands containing U.S. Navy oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, and Elk Hills, California
- police powers
- the government's power to control its citizens for the sake of public safety.
- herbert hoover
- President during the Great Depression. Not well liked. Ignored the depression of the country and the lack of jobs and homes.
- Why did unions decline in the 20's?
- successful implementation of welfare capitalism, consumerism, worker fragmentation, pro-business American attitude, yellow dog contracts, government was pro-business, want of normalcy
- ohio gang
- Harding's old poker playing friends that he gave pretend jobs to in the white house
- What led to the increased membership of the KKK during the twenties?
- increasing urbanization and industrialization, immigration, and african american migrations from rural settings to cities"
- bohemian
- unconventional (in an artistic way); A person with artistic or literary interests who disregards conventional standards of behavior.
- general strike
- strike by workers in many different industries at the same time, lasted nine days and involved three million
- bootlegging
- making or selling liquor illegally
- What was an unintended effect of the fordney-McCumber act?
- Less trade between countries because of high tarriffs.
- duke ellington
- Born in Chicago middle class. moved to Harlem in 1923 and began playing at the cotton club. Composer, pianist and band leader. Most influential figures in jazz.
- Why were sacco and venzetti seen as suspicious?
- Because they had the same gun that the bullet had been shot from, and they we're immigrants.
- cotton club
- a speak easy where blacks played but could not be apart of the audience
- kelogg-briand pact
- "War is illegal." is signed by all major countries in the world includin Japan, Italy, and Germany. Failure; no true enforcement (bound by morals)
- Universal Negro Improvement Assoc
- Universal Negro Improvement Association started by Marcus Garvey. Wanted immigration back to Africa in the end.
- palmor raids
- The Palmer Raids were a series of controversial raids by the U.S. Justice and Immigration Departments from 1919 to 1921 on suspected radical leftists in the United States. The raids are named for Alexander Mitchell Palmer, United States Attorney General under Woodrow Wilson.
- john scopes
- Bio teacher who was arrested for teaching the theory of evolution
- Volstead act
- The Act specified that "no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, furnish or possess any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act." It did not specifically prohibit the purchase or use of intoxicating liquors
- langston hughes
- African American poet who described the rich culture of african American life using rhythms influenced by jazz music. He wrote of African American hope and defiance, as well as the culture of Harlem and also had a major impact on the Harlem Renaissance.
- fordney-mccumer act
- The purpose of the scientific tariff was to equalize production costs among countries so that no country could undercut the prices charged by American companies
- red scare
- two periods of time, in the 1920s and 1950s, in which Americans feared the growth of communism. These suspicions led to tests of the civil liberties of people under the Constitution.
- managerial revolution
- Book by James Burnham
- bessie smith
- African American blues singer who played and important role in the Harlem Reniassance.
- glenn curtiss
- was an American aviation pioneer and founder of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, now part of Curtiss-Wright Corporation.
- When did the golden age of Hollywood begin?
- 1940's
- mass media
- Means of communnication that reach the mass public, including (newspapers and magazines, radio, television, broadcast, cable, and satellite, films, recordings, books, and electronic communication
- mcnary haugen bill
- A plan to rehabilitate American agriculture by raising the domestic prices of farm products *Effects of the protective tariff and burdens of debt and taxation had created a serious agricultural depression and grew steadily worse
- The managerial revolution
- number of business school middle class
- What was coolidges view of his role as president?olidges view of his role as president?
- He wanted a small government
- general intelligence division
- Now the FBI, Founded by Hoover