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Period: to
1920s
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The Great Migration
- the movement of 6 million blacks out of the rural Southern U.S. to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West
- WHY?
- many former soldiers
- more opportunity
- better pay
- CONSEQUENCES
- Racial Conflict
- Extremist movements (Garvey Movement)
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18th Amendment
- Prohibition of alcohol
- old drinking age - 18
- Temperance Movement
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union
- Anti-Saloon League
- Wayne Wheeler
- Volstead Act
- enforcement ability to 18th amendment
- defines what toxic beverages are
- excemptions - industrial use of alcohol
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Womens Suffrage
- A time period in which woman fought for their right to vote and run for office
- People were opposed to this
- Believed women were less intelligent
- Men could make better decisions
- Women involved in politics would be the end of family life
- All women wanted the right to vote
- Changes in social conditios which created better education and more political involvement
- Seneca Falls Convention
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Prohibition
- Prohibiton of alcohol
- Why did it happen?
- People blamed a lot of social problems on drinking
- Grain shortages during the war
- Anti-immigrant feelings
- Who wanted it?
- Temperance Movement Anti-Saloon League Factory owners Religious authority
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The Red Scare
- Violent wave of anti-communist panic that swept through the U.S.
- Why did Americans fear this?
- Palmer Raids and arrest of Sacco & Vanzetti
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19th Amendment
- The right of citizens of the U.S. to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the U.S. or by any state on account of sex
- Seneca Falls Convention
- Declaration of Sentiments - women independance
- Frederick Douglass
- AWSA
- NWSA
- Supported by Woodrow Wilson
- Passed in 1920
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Sacco & Vanzetti Trial
- Accused of something they didn't do because of their different beliefs
- U.S. was afraid of immigrants
- Italian-born U.S. anarchists
- Executed
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Warren G. Harding
- President during the Roaring 20s
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Senate Rejects Treaty of Versailles
- The Treaty of Versailles was a formal peace treaty between the World War I Allies and Germany
- President Woodrow Wilson presented his Fourteen Points
- The points included the formation of an international organization known as the League of Nations
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Langston Hughes
- American poet, novelist, and playwright
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Susan B. Anthony
- Put on trial for voting in a national election
- leader of Women's Rights Movement in U.S.
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Immigration Act
- A United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States
- Established preferences under the quota system for certain relatives of U.S. residents
- Also established the "consular control system" of immigration
- Congressman Albert Johnson and Senator David Reed were the two main architects of the act
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Louis Armstrong
- trumpeter, bandleader, singer, soloist, film star, and comedian
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Billie Holiday
- One of the most influential jazz singers of all time
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Stock Market Crash
- A severe downturn in value of stocks that occured in October in the U.S.
- marked the end of the Roaring 20s
- Why did it happen?
- Unregulated financial system
- pro-big business government
- people borrowing outside their means
- too optomistic
- Consequences
- The Great Depression
- Global Depression
- WWII
