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The beginning to the income tax.
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Searching for a better way of life, many African Americans began to move to the North.
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Marcus Garvey believed the only way to better the lives of African Americans was to go live in Africa.
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This act made it a requirement to take a literary test to come into America and also made lots of restrictions in order to prevent those from Asia and others from entering.
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The manufacturing, transportation, and sale of alcohol in the United States is officially prohibited.
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The red summer was a series of riots between blacks and whites which causes hundreds of deaths.
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The Chicago race riot was an eight day dispute caused by the drowning of an African American teenager.
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Women began to gain more freedom and began to start wearing short flapper style dresses.
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Louis Armstrong, an African American, became a very popular jazz musician.
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In 1920 the unemployment rate rose rapidly from 5.2 ro 8.7 percent.
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With the increase in stock buying and increase in money, many wealthier upperclass people were living a life of luxury.
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An influx of African American culture began to boom with great literacy works and jazz.
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As more workers became unhappy from their working conditions, they began to from unions.
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Many immigrants were arrested because of they were thought to be communists.
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The steel strike ends with the capitulation by the steelworkers.
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The act returned railroads to private operations.
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With more farmer planted cotton, the price of cotton began to fall dramatically resulting in a depression for cotton farmers.
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The 19th amendment granted the right to vote to women.
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The Teapot Dome Scandel was a bribery with oil reserves.
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The Emergency tariff rasied the price of manufactured goods.
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This act provided the framework for a national, federal budget.
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The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot talks about the world's loss of moral and spiritual values.
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Babbitt by Lewis Sinclair talks about how even with all the money and wealth you can never be fully satisfied.
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The Johnson-Reed act prevented immigrants from entering the U.S. by establishing quotas and completely banned immigrants from Asia.
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The New Negro by Alain Locke showed a hopeful view on the lives of African Americans.
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The Jazz Age, credited to African Americans, was a boom of jazz music and jazz style dance.
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald showed that the "modern person" could pursue the American Dream.
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A high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating the Tennessee Butler Act, which was the prohibtion of teaching evolution.
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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway conveyed the idea that the lost generation was aimless.
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Henry Ford shuts down of all his factories causing a mild recession.
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The first day of panic that preceded to Great Depression; many rushed to sell their stocks.
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Panicked sellers traded 16 million shares sparking the beginning of the Great Depression.
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Herbert Hoover's tariff, Hawley-Smoot, raised taxes on imports to increase the consumption of American products, however proved to be ineffective.
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The Reconstruction Finance Corporation provided financial support to state and local government and to businesses during the Great Depression.
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This act protected farmers from price drops by provided crop subsides and offering education about soil erosion.
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This act distributed money to aid the unemployed.
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The government bulit dams to prevent flooding and to sell electricity.
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This act created bank deposits to prevent bank failures.
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This act created NRA to enforce codes of fair competition, minimum wages, and to permit collective bargaining of workers.
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Ths program budgeted millions of dollars to constucting public works.
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This act provided new jobs at $15 an hour.
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The 21st amendment repealed the 18th amendment and allowed the sale of alcohol.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission regulated the stock market and prevented marginal buying.
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The Drought Relief Service coordinated relief activities such as bringing in cattle to be sold for consumption.
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The Works Progress Administration created jobs for artists and and created many other jobs.
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This program encouraged farmers to have electricity.
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This act provided employment to teenagers and college students.
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The Wagner Act allowed for unions to be formed snd restricted management from breaking up unions.
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Black Sunday was the worst black blizzard that caused a lot of damage to cities.
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The Social Security Act provided pensions, unemployment insurance, and aid to blind, deaf, disabled, and dependent children
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Billy Sunday delivers his last sermon; he was a popular preaher who most likely influenced the passing of the 18th amendment.
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This book shows the African American way of life.
