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Alfred E. Smith
A leader of the American Liberty League who was a former Democratic presidential candidate and highly opposed FDR's ideals. -
Women Christian Temperance Movement
movement created by women to support prohibition by including religious values to get people to quit drinking -
Niagara Movement
meet at Niagara falls to create demands for the and to promote complete equality for Blacks in America -
Progressive Party
Bull moose party, created by Roosevelt, was separate from the 2 main parties and focused more on what the people wanted -
Theodore Dreiser
American novelist who used blunt prose to attack profiteers and promoters in his book The Financer -
Evolution taking over
the Theory of evolution from Charles Darwin began to grow in popularity and challenged religion, swaying Americans away from the church after WWI -
Volstead Act (National Prohibition Act of 1919)
congress enforcing prohibition but wasn't effect due to corruption and bribery -
Red Summer
after WWI, 13 days of racial violence on South Side of Chicago leave tons of people dead, hurt and homeless -
Fundamentalism
After WWI, fundamentalism was created that was a strict following of scripture, rivaled conservative Americans -
Immigration from eastern Europe
Immigration during this time was mostly from eastern Europe and most Americans did not want them to come over because they were from communist nations bordering the soviet union -
trickle-down economics
economic theory that holds that money lent to banks and businesses will trickle down to consumers -
Normalcy
this term came to symbolize, to powerful businessmen -
labor unions
not active during this time but wages were at its highest ever due to the booming economy -
Bull Market
the market was sky rocketing due to a manufacturing boom, resulted in the quality of life to rise for Americans, only to crash during the great depression -
Manufacturing
car manufacturing boomed due to technology advancements and the economic boom of the 1920s -
Speakeasies
places where people could drink alcohol, it was illegal -
Consumerism and mass consumption
New societal shift in the 1920s, characterized by use of credit, installment plan purchasing, lucrative advertising -
The Lost Generation
term used to describe that the men who survived WW1 were too old to learn new trades -
Harlem Renaissance
black culture grew from the Harlem Renaissance when a music and art explosion occurred and focused on the Black community -
Louis Armstrong
one of the first African American Jazz performers, was an icon during the jazz age -
KKK
the KKK sees more memberships during the 20s due to more activists for African American equality -
Prohibiton
prohibition gained support from conservatives because they thought young people wanted to stray away from tradition, while young people were actually against it -
Emergency Quota Act
this act restricted immigration to the united states and only allowed certain number of people to come over -
Teapot Dome Scandal
A government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company -
Radio
allowed news to be broadcasted over great distances instantly, also brought a new form of entertainment for Americans at home, made news papers less reliable -
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American author of The Great Gatsby, well known during the roaring 20s but hit the bottom during the Great Depression -
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist, affected by WWI, he was famous for his novels that reflected the disillusionment of Americans with propaganda and patriotism -
The Jazz Singer
film that ushered in new era of sound and color movies; also exemplified popularity of jazz music -
The Great Crash of 1929
Stock Market crash that lead to the great depression, put nearly a quarter of Americans out of work -
Black Tuesday
nicknamed black Tuesday as being the day the stock market crashed, beginning the start of the Great Depression -
Stock Market Crash
after years of huge economic boom, the stock market crash at the end of the decade and is known as the worst economic struggle in American history -
Sinclair Lewis
first writer in the US to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature -
Leading up to the crash
during the 20s, 70 banks a year fell across the country despite the economic boom, in the first months of the crash, 744 banks fell, this lead to no money for farmers to grow food and no consumer consuption -
Hawley-smoot tariff
Hoover supported and signed a 42% tax on foreign products -
The Dust Bowl
dust storms in the mid west that destroyed American agriculture lands due to over use of the land -
Farmers move away
due to the dust bowl, many farming families abandoned their farms in the mid west and moved east and west in order to find work -
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
a policy by president Hoover to give collapsing rail road companies, banks and other essential companies $1.5 billion to avoid collapse -
Public Works
projects for workers to do to benefit society like building roads, sewers, and dams -
Federal Securities Act
required all corporations to provide information on stocks and made them liable to misrepresentation -
Emergency Banking Act
backs that struggled were given federal assistance in order to reopen, usually 75% of the banks reopened after a few days -
Tennessee Valley Authortity
a corporation to hire local people and get them back to work by building hydro-electric dams and offered cheap employee housing -
Farm Credit Act
this act gave loans to farmers who were struggling and on the verge of bankruptcy -
Civilian Conservation Corps
corporation that gave jobs to millions to build irrigation systems and to fight fires, while paying each employee $30 a month -
Glass- Steagall Banking Act
Law that created the federal deposit insurance corporation which insured peoples banking deposits, something that wasn't a thing before -
New Deal
signed by president Roosevelt, his programs were short term and were meant to provide immediate recovery by employing mass amounts of people and establishing a minimum wage -
Bank Holiday
the bank holiday was a close of all banks so the government could inspect them to see if they were on the verge of collapse, the sound banks stayed ip and the struggling ones got assistance -
Civil Works Administration
a program that gave the states money to build 225,000 miles work of road, money to build thousands of new schools and athletic events in order to keep the public working and benefiting society -
Social Security policy
The system of distributing federal funds to retired and disabled Americans in order for people to have some money -
Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act
it replaced the AAA in which farmers were paid in order to cut production and to plant crops that weren't as soil depleting -
Fair Labor Standards Act
this act established a federal minimum wage and a standard 40 hour work week for everyone, this began to pull workers out of poverty
