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Marcus Garvey brought the United Negro Improvement Association to Harlem from Jamaica. Advocated for black nationalism in America. Boomed during 1920's.
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Calvin Coolidge main political career started in Massachusetts as he became governor.
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Enforced the 18th amendment
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Between Warren Harding and James Cox. Warren Harding won and became President.
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The government tended to focus more on making big businesses happy than protecting the interest of the people.
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50%+ population moved to and lived in Urban areas.
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Poets Focused on African American Struggle; Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen.
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A religious experience that embraced the theory of evolution while still keeping their religious faith.
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Religious faiths used the new technology of the radio to expand their following.
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Sudden need for goods declined as resources for soldiers were no longer needed.
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Severely limited the amount of immigration by allowing only 3% of census of 1910; discriminated against eastern and southern europeans
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Increased tariff by 25% on foreign manufactured goods
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Novel written by Sinclair Lewis that critiqued American life from the point of view of middle class society.
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Between Calvin Coolidge and John Davis. Coolidge won.
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Emerged with Robert La Follette leading the charge for reforms and as their Presidential candidate.
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US would lend money to Germany for Germany to pay for repairs of WWI to Britain and France would repay their debts to the US
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Novel written by Jessi Fausets; brought the idea African-Americans having a completely separate national identity than whites to the forefront.
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AKA Quota Act of 1924; Limited immigration even more to 2% of people from a country that were already living in the US based on the census of 1890 and banned all Japanese immigrants.
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Written by F Scott Fitzgerald; showed the wildness of the 20’s from the point of view of a younger generation.
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Written by Sherwood Anderson; talks about the new sexual freedom experienced by youth in the 1920’s.
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Focused on expanding racial pride for blacks.
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Written by Langston Hughes, stated that American shouldn’t be limited by race.
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Written by Ernest Hemingway; showed a different point of view on WWI.
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Celebrities became more important and idolized than politicians.
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First national broadcast station alongside NBC. Helped skyrocket a different type of media based generation.
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Between Herbert Hoover and Al Smith. Herbert Hoover won.
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Women became more independent and promiscuous.
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Almost all the banks in the country overshot with their money and stocks. Largest crash for decades.
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30 million people owned automobiles and changed way of life.
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Harlem, NY had largest concentration of African American community. Collection of mainly black artist and musicians, called Harlem Renaissance
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Bankers spent millions buying stocks but no one was willing to buy. Led to market crash.
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Created to regulate stock trades and placed restrictions on to damaging actions.
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Hoover introduced this tariff; Increased taxes on foreign goods at 31%-49%. Highest tariff in US history.
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Stocks were at there lowest record price in the US. about 1/9 of their highest value.
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Created by Congress but backed by the president. Helped financially support big businesses during the Depression.
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Helped small homeowners prevent from foreclosures on their homes.
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Repealed the 18th amendment which led to the end of the Prohibition Era
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Enacted by President Roosevelt; offered young men employment opportunities on federal lands while paying their families very little money.
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Set strict guidelines for large industries, helped workers but declared unconstitutional two years later.
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Protected farmers from overproduction and price drops. Declared unconstitutional in 1935
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Offered federal grants to state and local government to non-profits that were working soup kitchens and other ways to help the homeless and jobless.
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Loaned money to state and local governments to help build roads, bridges and other public projects. These projects helped provide thousands of jobs.
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Provided loans to all different types of farmers, while simultaneously establishing federal camps and good homes for immigrant workers.
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Offered thousands of new jobs to American women and men. Helped people pull themselves out of the depression.
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Created federal insurance program that collected taxes from the working class and redistributed them monthly to people 65+ years
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Greatly increased taxes for the small wealthy population, and increased taxes on capital gains.
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Created to provide help for electrical cooperatives to give power in more rural parts of the country.
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Protected workers rights to join a labor union while also protecting the actual union itself as well. Enforced by the NLRB
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Gov’t planted hundreds of trees along the Great Plains, miles long to try and reduce the damage of the dust storms that had been occurring.
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Novel written by John Steinbeck; focused on and described hardships experienced by Oklahoma farmers
