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The Teapot Dome scandal took place during the presidency of Harding and consisted of government officials taking bribes, embezzling, and doing other corrupt activities.
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The roaring twenties was a period of economic boom that was marked by rapid industrial growth and advances in technology
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Consumerism came into its own throughout the 1920s as a result of mass production, new products on the market, and improved advertising techniques.
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Because of the economic boom of the 20s, people started spending more money on entertainment leading to a birth of mass culture.
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Al Capone is a famous American mobster that co-founded the Chicago Outfit known for the illegal trade of alcohol.
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Speakeasies were secret bars that sold alcohol illegally usually supplied by gangsters.
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On this date the 18th amendment went into effect tirggering gang related activities involving bootlegging.
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The world's largest naval powers came together to consult naval disarments and how to relieve growing pains in Eastern Asia.
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In 1920 the 19th amendment was passed giving the right to vote to women.
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US went into economic recession but was allowed to run its course before ending in 18 months.
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The Immagration Act of 1921 restricted immagration into the US for a temporary amount of time, but proved in the long run to be the most important turning-point in American immagration policy.
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"The Wasteland" by T. S. Eliot was a poem that helped define the 1920's.
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Babbit by Sinclair Lewis was a novel written with a satirical look at small town life
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Radio's hit the airwaves in 1920 but by 1923 there were more than 500 stations and by the end of the 20s there were radios in more than 12 million houses.
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Calvin Coolidge took office after the death of Warren G. Harding. He focused mostly on economical issues during his time in office.
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The National Orgins Act severly restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians.
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The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 lowered the annual number of immagrants allowed into the country even lower than the orignial "immigration act" in 1921.
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Aaron Douglas was a famous painter during the Harlem Renaissance. He illustrated for the National Urban League's magazine "Oppurtunity" and and for "Crisis" put out by the NAACP.
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The New Negro was a book writen by Alain Locke showin a hopeful look at the negro in America.
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The Butler Act banned the teaching of the evolution theory in Tennessee.
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'The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a book set in 1922 that demonstrates many of the cutural, political, and economical aspects of the 20s.
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The Monkey Trial began with John Scopes teaching about evolution violating Tennessee state law. The trial got out of hand mostly because of religious protesters some leashing monkeys
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In 1926, many farmers migrated from rural areas to urban areas in search of better economic oppurtunities causing the prices of food to rise.
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Dream Variations was a poem written by Langston Hughes that articulated the African American dream.
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The Harlem Renaissance was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that started in the 1920's spanning to the mid 30's.
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Jazz music became very popular in the 20s because what many people wanted to do was to dance.
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Louis Armstrong was a famous Jazz musician during the Harlem Renaissance. He wrote songs such as "West End Blues" and "(What Did I Do to Be So) Black & Blue"
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A Strange Interlude is a play written by Eugene O'Neill that contained a subject matter that was very controversial for the 1920's.
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The Boulder Canyon Project Act authorized construction of a dam in Boulder Canyon, construction of the All-American Canal to connect the Imperial and Coachella Valleys with the Colorado River, and dived the lower basin waters among the lower basin states.
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Cars- By 1929, there was one car on the road for every 5 Americans.
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The Sound and the Fury written by William Faulkner was a novel that details the decay of the Old South
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Because of the stock prices falling, most owners traded them away. Some 16 million in fact.
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Black Tuesday triggered the Great Depression the lasted through 1933 with stocks staying subvalue.
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On Black Tuesday in 1929 as investors traded approximately 16 million shares resulting in the loss of billions of dollars. This triggered the start of the Great Depression.
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The Hawley-Smoot Tariff act raised US tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels
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The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the US between 1933 and 1938.
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The CCC or the Civilian Conservation Corps was an organzition formed to preform reforestation and conservation acts. Also removed a surplus of workers from cities.
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The Federal Emergency Relief Administration provided loans to state governments for relief programs. The Act was meant to provide work and a variety relief programs.
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The Works Progress Administration put unemployed Americans to work in exchange for temporary financial aid.
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The Agricultural Adjustment Act was a US law that reduced production by farmers by paying them to stop planting and kill off livestock
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The NIRA or National Industrial Recovery Act was a law passed by the US Congress to give authority to the President to regulate industry in an attempt to raise prices after severe deflation and recover the economy.
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The Public Works Administration was created by the NIR Act to create public works as a means of employment.
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is a US government corporation providing deposit insurance to depositors in US banks.
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The Civil Works Act was a job creation program that created manual labor jobs for millions during the Great Depression.
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The Dust Bowl began in 1934 when drought struk and the soil lacked the stronger root system of grass as an anchor causing winds to pick up the loose topsoil.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission was brought togetrher to regulate the commerce in stocks, bonds, and other securites.
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The Wagner Act was a bill established to address relations between unions and employers in the private sector. It gave a right to form, join, or assist labor organizations.
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The Social Security Act was an attempt to limit what is seen as danger in the modern American life.
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The Soil Consevation Act was put into place so that the Government could pay farmers to recuce production to conserve soil and prevent erosion.
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FCIC is a government corporation that manages federal crop imsurance program, which provides US farmers and agricultural entities with crop insurance protection.
