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Woman's rights
Started with the Seneca Falls Convention, and with years of protesting and fighting for woman's rights, woman gained the right to vote in 1920 (19th amendment) -
Ku Klux Klan
A secret hate group inspired by the former, founded in 1915 and currently active across the U.S., especially in the South, directed against black people, Muslims, Jews, Catholics, foreign-born individuals, and other groups. -
Fundamentalism started
fundamentalism- A form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture. -
Great Migration
Movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970. -
Red scare
The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920. This “scare” was caused by fears of subversion by communists in the United States after the Russian Revolution. -
Volstead Act
18th amendment passed to stop the sale of alcohol -
Jazz Age
The influence of jazz music was widespread and society was experiencing prosperity, Prohibition and the beginnings of social change -
Harlem Renaissance
An African-American cultural movement of the 1920s and 1930s, centered in Harlem, that celebrated black traditions, the black voice, and black ways of life. -
Emergency Quota Act
restricted immigration into the United States. -
Washington Naval Conference
Attended by nine nations—the United States, Japan, China, France, Britain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Portugal[1][2]—regarding interests in the Pacific Ocean and East Asia. -
Teapot Dome
government scandal that took place in the United States, and was a bribery incident involving the administration of then President Warren G. Harding. Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. -
Cotton Club
New York City night club located first in the Harlem neighborhood on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue. Was a whites-only establishment even though it featured many of the most popular black entertainers of the era -
National Origins Act
Established a quota system for determining how many immigrants could enter the United States, restricted by country of origin. -
Scopes "Monkey" Trial
Scopes taught his students evolution in a Tennessee school but got prosecuted by Williams Jennings Brian. Did not become legal to teach Evolution until 1967 -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
International agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them"
Signed by Germany, France, and the United States on 27 August 1928, and by most other states soon after.
