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Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein was an American writer of experimental novels, poetry, essays, operas, and plays. Her works include Three Lives (1908), Tender Buttons (1914), and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933). -
The Assembly Line
The Assembly Line was created by Henry Ford to speed up the process of making an Automobile. -
Marcus Garvey
Political leader from Harlem who, Jamaican-born, who advocated racial pride, economic self-sufficiency; founded United Negro Improvement Association to promote resettlement of Blacks in homeland -
United Negro Improvement Association
Founded by Marcus Garvey to promote resettlement of American blacks in African homeland; sponsored stores and business to make money, but many efforts failed financially; helped to inspire blacks to gain self-confidence and self-reliance -
The Birth of a Nation
1915 film by D. W. Griffith that glorified Reconstruction-era KKK, contributing to rise in popularity; defamed blacks and Northerners and led to protests and petitions -
Great Migration
The movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920 -
18th Amendment
The 18th Amendment established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal. -
Volstead Act (National Prohibition Act of 1919)
The Volstead Act was enacted to enforce the 18th Amendment, by removing bars, drunkness, and prevent absenteeism which established Prohibition in the U.S. -
Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound was an American, poet, musician and critic who was a major figure in the Modernist movement in poetry. -
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem was largest African-American community in America, located in NYC, close community led to development of cultural center for actors, writers, poets, artists, musicians. -
Trickle-Down Economics
Herbert Hoover's economic policy. help the rich instead of the common people. If the rich get richer, their investments supposedly will lead businesses to expand, and some of that money will trickle down to the people in the form of jobs and salaries. -
Lost Generation of the 1920s
The Lost Generation got its name because the writers were disillusioned w/American society during the 20s and left the U.S to take part in literary cities. Criticized middle-class conformity & materialism. -
Modernists
Replaced Fundamentalists in late 1920s and believed that God was god, universe was a happy place; preached to balance modern life and evolutionism with teachings of Bible -
Fundamentalism
Belief that teaching Darwinian evolution caused "moral breakdown" of students, interpreting bible literally and taught creationism; blamed Modernists for degradation of morals -
Langston Hughes
Poet of Harlem Renaissance who wrote of struggles of African-Americans and discrminiation/segregation as well as of pride in balck identity; social activist who advocated black rights -
Nativism
severe immigration laws to discourage and discriminate against foreigners, believed to erode old-fashioned American values -
Return to Normalcy
Normalcy is a return to high protective tariffs and a reduction in taxes -
Bureau of the Budget
The Bureau of the Budget was created in 1921 by Congress to reduce national debt. -
Warren G. Harding
THe 29 President of the United States Harding was a Republican and he advocated for Normalcy during his campaign. -
Budget and Accounting Act of 1921
The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 established the framework for the modern federal budget. -
Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis was an American Novelist who wrote about middle class- America in his 22 works, including Babbitt (1922) and Elmer Gantry (1927). -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal was a government scandal involving a oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921. -
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
The Fordney–McCumber Tariff was a law that raised tariffs on many imported goods to protect factories and farms. -
Immigartion Act of 1924
Limits the number of immigrants into the country through a national origins quota. -
Scopes Trial
A trial that convicted John T. Scopes after he was convinced by ACLU to teach Darwinian evolutionism in a Tennessee biology class. -
Ernest Hemmingway
Ernest Hemmingway was a Lost Generation writer who wrote The Sun Also Rises Often. -
The Jazz Singer
1927 film that ushered in new era of sound and color movies; also exemplified popularity of jazz music -
Agricultural Marketing Act
Passed by Congress before Black Tuesday to help farmers help themselves. -
Black Tuesday
A consumer panic in the stock market on October 29, 1929 that is said to allegedly be the main cause of the Great Depression. -
The Great Depression
A sever economic depression that occurred after Black Tuesday. Jobs were scarce and homeless rates grew. -
Dust Bowl
A horrible natural disaster in which Midwestern dust from millions of acres of dry, arid land (which in-part got that way from the tilling of the area) was blown up into the air and carried as far as Boston. -
Hawley Smoot Tariff
A tariff that increased goods from 30% to almost 50% increased prices. -
Stimson Doctrine
stated that the U.S. would refuse to recognize any territorial change brought about by aggression. -
Norris-LaGuardia Anti-Injunction Act
It banned yellow-dog contracts, barred the federal courts from issuing injunctions against nonviolent labor disputes, and created a positive right of noninterference by employers against workers joining trade unions. -
1933 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
The 1933 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), provided jobs for single males on conservation projects. -
1933 Emergency Banking Relief Act (EBRA)
Roosevelt declared a bank holiday and closed down all the banks to be inspected. Those that were considered stable could reopen while others that were in financial crisis would remained closed or they could obtained loans if necessary. -
1933 Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
The 1933 Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), helped states to provide aid for the unemployed -
1933 Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
Raise crop prices by lowering production and paying farmers to leave a certain amount of every acre of land unseeded; declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court on the ground that agriculture is a local matter and thus, the power to regulate agriculture should be given to states rather than federal government. -
1933 Federal Securities Act
Required corporations to provide complete information of all stock offerings and made them liable for misrepresentations. -
1933 Public Works Administration (PWA)
The Public Works Administration (PWA) created jobs on government projects -
1933 National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Establish codes of fair competition -
1933 National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA
Provided money to states to create jobs; it was struck down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional on the ground that it gave legislative powers to the executive branch and that the enforcement of industry codes within states went beyond the federal government's constitutional powers to regulate interstate commerce -
1933 Civil Works Administration (CWA)
1933 Civil Works Administration (CWA) provided work in federal jobs -
1934 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Supervised the stock market and eliminated dishonest practices -
American Liberty League
a conservative anti-New Deal organization; members included Alfred Smith, John W. Davis, and the Du Pont family. It criticized the "dictatorial" policies of Roosevelt and what it perceived to be his attacks on the free enterprise system., organization founded in 1934 in opposition to the New Deal. -
1935 Works Progress Administration (WPA)
1935 Works Progress Administration (WPA) quickly created as many jobs as possible -
1935 National Youth Administration (NYA)
Provided job training for unemployed young people and part-time jobs for needy students. -
Banking act of 1935
Created seven-member board to regulate the nation's money supply and the interest rates on loans -
Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act
Replaced the AAA in which farmers were paid to cut production of soil depleting crops and they were also given rewards for practicing good soil conservation methods -
1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDC)
Required manufacturers to list ingredients in foods, drugs, and cosmetic products -
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck's novel about a struggling farm family during the Great Depression. Gave a face to the violence and exploitation that migrant farm workers faced in America. Featured information about the Dust Bowl.
