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By the end of the decade, there was at least one car in every American family. The automobile replaced most railroad transportation.
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African Americans are largely credited in the music genre jazz. It was popular largely during the Harlem Renaissance and is still today.
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Modernists supported new women roles, scientific knowledge, and the Social Gospel movement. Fundamentalists favored the Bible only.
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The first motion picture made in Technicolor in the United States was made in Jacksonville, Florida. The movies often showed American heroes like Woodrow Wilson and Babe Ruth.
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This amendment made it illegal to sell & transport alcoholic beverages during prohibition.
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Before the Crash, big business increased by 64% in ten years.
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Series of strikes, largest ones were in Seattle. They wanted better pay and better working conditions
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Women went into the workforce for the first time and not staying home to take care of the home and children.
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African Americans in Harlem, New York, let their creativity fly as they created new poetry, literature, and music (jazz)
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The three Republican presidents during this time favored business expansion and that was seemingly threatened by immigrants.
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William Harding's policy was the "return to normalcy". He wanted a United States that was in the state it was before WWI.
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It was a place that sold alcohol illegally with the use of a password.
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Some novels criticized small business and towns, "Main Street" was one of those novels.
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The government secretly leased naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, to private companies in return for no‐interest “loans.”
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Because of their state after WWI and not joining the LON, the U.S. wanted to be isolated to fix itself (or try to).
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Young adults would go to jazz clubs to dance, the Cotton Club was one of the most popular.
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Calvin Coolidge became the second of the three Republican Presidents during this time period. He won 282 to 136
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NBC was one of the first to let radio stations broadcast across the country.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel gave an insight to the parties and young foolishness of the 1920 young people.
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Authors like Ernest Hemmingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Sinclair Lewis challenged religion and told a harsh truth, and they were insulted for their soon-to-be-classics
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The novel, written by Ernest Hemingway, was one of his most famous works that impacted the time period.
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There were periodic times of religious revival, but this time pastors used radio to reach bigger audiences.
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Also known as Black Tuesday, nearly half of American banks failed all at once. This event kick-started the Great Depression.
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The Great Depression was the worst sudden economic crash in U.S. history and it effected everyone.
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Due to the economic boost after World War One, the stock market was in great shape until it crashed in 1929
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People were convinced that they could beat the Stock Market system, and were selling stocks too quickly
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African Americans came to Harlem, New York and by 1930, 20% of African Americans lived in Harlem
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Soil was died up in some states and giant windstorms buried homes and farms.
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One of Hoover's stances was that businesses shouldn't cut wages, unions shouldn't strike and just stay calm.
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This tariff was one of the highest tariffs in U.S history. It raised tariffs on over 200,000 items.
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Hoover was renominated, and he warned that if a democrat won, the Depression would get worse, (It got worse anyway.)
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It was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942
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It allowed the president to regulate industry for fair wages and prices.
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It repealed the 18th and ended Prohibition.
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It supported the preservation of Native American culture and repealed the Dawes Act.
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A federal agency that is responsible for protecting investors, maintaining fair and orderly functioning of securities markets
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It insured bank loans to construction companies and housing.
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The Act created social insurance program designed to pay retired workers 65 or older an income after retirement.
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It employed people to build public work projects, including public buildings and roads
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Black Cabinet was another term for the blacks serving under Theodore Roosevelt during his terms.
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It formed to encourage the AFL to organize workers in mass production industries. It soon separated from the AFL to become it's biggest enemy.
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It protected the rights of employees and employers and to encourage collective bargaining.
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It relocated families effected by the dust bowl to communities controlled by the government.
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It provided loans for the instillation of household electronics.
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Although it slipped back down, there was a slight upbringing during the depression, banks were stabled and unemployment was getting better.
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It established overtime pay, minimum wage, and child-labor standards.
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The novel, written by John Steinbeck, told the story of dust farmers during the Dust Bowl.
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Because of the dust sweeping through their homes, some, if not all, farmers migrated to California.
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Because of the color of her skin, she was denied to sing in Constitution Hall, but Eleanor Roosevelt got her to sing in front of the memorial
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The committee helped minorities in gaining jobs in defense industries.
