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The Harlem Renaissance
The movement for black pride was known as the Harlem Renaissance. This is the first self-conscious literary and artistic movement in African American history. in 1890 W.E.B. Du Bois, Harvard's first African American Ph.D., began to start helping put this group together. He bagan forming a group of African Americans to help change the rights for African Americans -
Fitzgeralds childhood
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896. During 1911-1913 he attended the Newman School, a Catholic prep school in New Jersey. As a member of the Princeton Class of 1917,he wrote the scripts and lyrics for the Princeton Triangle Club musicals -
boxer rebellion
Beginning in 1898, groups of people in northern China began to band together into a society known as "Righteous and Harmonious Fists" called the "Boxers". Members of the society practiced boxing and calisthenic rituals which made them believe that bullets couldnt touch them. The Boxers wanted to destroy the Ch'ing dynasty, which had ruled China for over 250 years. -
Fitzgerald's Wife
While at a country club, Fitzgerald met his future wife Zelda Sayre. even though he worked at an advertising firm and writing short stories, he was unable to convince Zelda that he would be able to support her, which lead her to break off the engagement. Their only child, Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald, was born on October 26, 1921 and died on June 16, 1986. -
brownie camera
The Brownie camera was the first hand-held camera that was cheap enough and simple enough for anyone. The Brownie camera was very affordable, selling for only $1 each. Kodak advertised that the Brownie camera was "so simple that any young kid could use it. -
queen Victoria dies
Queen Victoria was the longest lasting British monarch in hshe ruled the united kingdom from 1837 to 1901. It was obvious to Dr. Reid that Queen Victoria was dying. He called for her children and grandchildren. At 6:30 p.m. on January 22, 1901, Queen Victoria died. -
William McKinley assassinated
At 3:30 p.m., President McKinley stood inside the Temple of Music building, ready to begin shaking the hands of the public. at 4 p.m. the people began to come in, Leon Czolgosz entered the building with a gun in his right hand covered by a handkerchief. as he greeted the president he raised the gun to his chest and fired two bullets. at 2:15 a.m. the next day William McKinley died of gangrene. -
first state issued license plate
The first state-issued license plates were issued in Massachusetts, beginning in 1903. The very first plate was issued to Frederick Tudor. Massachusetts was the first to issue license plates, but other states soon followed. As automobiles began to crowd the roads, it was necessary for all states to find ways to start regulating cars, drivers, and traffic. Massachusetts was the first to issue license plates but other states quickly issued them to have a way to track cars -
The Great Shake
At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, an earthquake hit San Francisco. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake was the first large, natural disaster that we have pictures for. The earthquake lasted for 40 to 60 seconds. -
first fatal airplane crash
It was 5 p.m. on September 17, 1908, when Orville and Lt. Selfridge got into the airplane. Lt. Selfridge was the Wrights' heaviest passenger, weighing 175 pounds. The crash created a cloud of dust. Orville and Lt. Selfridge were both pinned in the wreckage. They were able to get to Orville first. At 8:10 p.m., Lt. Selfridge died from a fractured skull. -
life in the army for fitzgerald
Fitzgerald was commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry and assigned to Camp Sheridan outside of Montgomery, Alabama. It was there that he met and fell in love with a beautiful 18-year-old girl named Zelda Sayre. His main fear of going into the army was that he was going to die in World War I. -
new version of the Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan, led by former Confederate General Nathaniel Bedford Forrest, used terrorist tactics to intimidate former slaves. Roman Catholics, Jews, African Americans, and foreigners were the new main targets of the clan. Bootleggers and divorcees were also targets. The reason for the Klan's growth was a post-war depression, and the migration of African Americans into Northern cities. -
anti - saloon league
At midnight, January 16 1920, the United State's breweries, distilleries, and saloons were forced to close their doors. Many women reformers who were concerned about alcohol's link to wife beating and child abuse. People for theProhibition argued that outlawing drinking would eliminate corruption, end machine politics. -
racial violence
In Tulsa 23 African American churches and a thousand homes and businesses were destroyed. In 1921, Tulsa (about 12 percent black) had the Southwest's most well known African American business community. Booker T. Washington had called this area "the black Wall Street." It to was also destroyed. -
immigration restriction
In 1924, Congress reduced the number of immigrants allowed into the United States each year to two percent of each nationality group counted in the 1890 census. During the 1920s, most ethnic groups agreed that the volume of immigration should be reduced. Their plan was to make the quotas proportionate to the current population, so that the future immigration would not change the ethnic groups. -
Leopold and Loeb case
This murder was the first crime of the century. in 1924 an teenager named Robert Franks was kidnapped, and killed. the two men were sentenced to life in prison. In 1936, Loeb was killed with a razor in a fight with another inmate. Leopold was released from prison in 1958 after 34 years. He died of a heart attack at the age of 66 on August 30, 1971. -
fitgeralds the gatsby novel
Fitzgerald wanted a change of scenery to get more of his creativity, in 1924 Fitzgerald moved to France, and it was there, in Valescure, that Fitzgerald wrote his most famous novel, The Great Gatsby which was published in 1925 -
Herbert Hoover
In the presidential election of 1928, Al Smith was defeated by Herbert Hoover, a mining engineer who was the commerce secretary for Presidents Harding and Coolidge. Hoover created the Federal Farm Board to increase farmers' income. -
the election of 1928
the conflict with the election of 1928 was whether the United States could elect a Catholic president. In 1928, the Democrats wanted to avoid a repeat of the party divisions of 1924.The party platform stood in favor of aid to farmers and workers, collective bargaining, and stricter regulation of power companies. Al Smith was nominated for president but was defeated, and he was catholic. -
Fitzgerald's major works
these are F.Scott Fitzgerald's major works all the way until 1929.
This Side of Paradise
The Beautiful and Damned
The Great Gatsby
Flappers and Philosophers
Tales of the Jazz Age
All the Sad Young Men
"Bernice Bobs Her Hair" (1920)
"Head and Shoulders" (1920)
"The Ice Palace" (1920)
"The Offshore Pirate" (1920)
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (1921)
"The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" (1922)
"Winter Dreams" (1922)
"The Baby Party" (1925)
"The Freshest Boy" (1928) -
His wifes problems
His wife Zelda also suffered from mental health issues as they spent the late 1920s moving back and forth between Delaware and France. In 1930, she was briefly put into a mental-health clinic in Switzerland, and after the Fitzgeralds returned to the United States in 1931, she suffered another breakdown and entered the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. -
tender is the night
In 1934, after years of frustration, Fitzgerald finally published his fourth novel, "Tender is the Night", about an American psychiatrist in Paris and his troubled marriage to a wealthy patient. even thought the book was first criticized it later grew on people and people began to like it. -
Fitzgeralds movie career
After another two years that fitzgerald lost to alcohol and depression, in 1937 Fitzgerald attempted to restart his career as a screenwriter and freelance storywriter in Hollywood, and he achieved average financial success for his efforts. -
Fitzgerald just before death
He began work on another novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, in 1939, and he had completed over half the manuscript when he died of a heart attack on December 21, 1940, at the age of 44. -
Fitzgeralds death
Fitzgerald had been an alcoholic since his college days, and became known during the 1920s for his extraordinarily heavy drinking, leaving him in poor health by the late 1930s. Fitzgerald suffered two heart attacks in late 1940. he was ordered by his doctor to avoid any stressfull activity and drinking. Fitzgerald had died of a massive heart attack.
