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Scopes Trial
court case in which Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan debated the issue of teaching evolution in public schools -
The Ku Klux Klan
An organization that was originally formed in the reconstruction era by white southerners. It was revived in Georgia in 1915. But the new Klan was more popular in the midwest and southwest in the major cities. Its supporters claimed it stood for "old-time religion" and moral values associated with it, immigration restriction, and opposed groups with people who were not 100% American (African-Americans, catholic, jews, foreigners). -
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Nicola Sacco Bartolomeo Vanzetti was Italian born self-admitted anarchists who were indicted for murder and robbery in Massachusetts they were found guilty and sentenced to death. Many supporters believed they were convicted because of their ethnic background. -
Red Scare
Communism. -
Albert Fall
The Secretary of the Interior who accepted bribes from an oil company and started the Teapot Dome Scandal. -
Ernest Hemingway
Wrote A Farewell to Arms -
Important Amendments 1920
18th- Prohibition of alcohol
19th- Gave women the right to vote.
21st-Repealed prohibition -
Mass media
Led to the development of a national culture. -
Demographic Change in the 1920's
movement from rural areas to urban areas -
Isolationism
A policy of non-participation in international economic and political relations -
Langston Hughes
Showed ordinary African Americans struggling for dignity and advancement in the face of discrimination and economic hardships. -
Claude McKay
Probably the most powerful african american literaryvoice of his time. -
Zora Neate Hurston
traveled the rural back roads of her native Florida and expressed the new longing for independence felt by many women, black and white. -
Marcus Garvey
the most prominent african american leader, to emerge in the 1920s -
F. Scott Fitzgerald
called the 1920s the "Jazz Age" but it was the African Americans who gave the age its unique music. -
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Prohibition
the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was banned in the United States by the 21st amendment -
Quota Act
Set a maximum number of immigrants entering the country to anually 350,000. -
Woodrow Wilson
-Wilson died 3 years after being in office
-James Cox was Wilson's choice for V.P
-Sickly during the 20s due to stroke, suffered in 1919 while on a speaking trying to promote the league of nations -
Warren G. Harding
-Grew up in a small town in Ohio
-former teacher & newspaper editor
-Lt. Govener, U.S. senator--> average politician
-Promised to return normalcy= peace+ prosparity
-Chose some corrupt cabinet members
-His secratery was responsible for the Teapot Dome (Alber B. Fall
-Supported high tariffs
-Signed immigrant quota law -
National Origin Act
Reduced the total number of immigrants entering the country to 150,000. -
Calvin Coolidge
-Believed in the "trickle down" economy theory
-Ignored farmers and labor (working class)
-Anti-progressive failed to regulate the stock market
-Lazy and lead America to the great depression. -
Black Tuesday
The stock market crashed on Tuesday, October 29, so everyone wanted to sell their stocks and so few wanted to buy. -
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The Great Depression
The U.S had experienced recessions before and each time the economy had recovered but the economy didn't recover quickly from the crash that began in 1929. Because of its length, it was called the Great Depression -
Bonus Army
A group of WW1 vets who protested for their military bonus before it ws due. -
Fireside Chats
A radio station where Roosevelt would specifically talk to Americans. -
Frances Perkins
the nations first woman cabinet member. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The 32nd president who led the US through the great depression and WW2. He served 4 terms which is the longest of any other president.. -
Herbert Hoover
-Iowa farm boy, orphaned at age 8 poor
-Self-made millionaire
-Nicknamed the "wonder boy"
-The stock market crashed 8 months into the presidency
-Appeared inactive and insensitive during the great depression -
The New Deal
A 100 day session that started just after the inauguration and lasted until the middle of June. During Roosevelt and congress worked together to create new programs to battle the depression and aid economic recovery. These programs became known as the New Deal. -
The Social Security Act
It was passed in 1935 provided some financial security for the elderly, the disabled children, and the unemployed. -
Woody Guthrie
Oklahoma born folk singer crisscrossed the country singing his songs of loss and struggle.
