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Republican Harding vs Democratic Cox, Harding won by landslide.
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Palmer, Hoover, and agents hunted down suspected communists, socialists, and anarchists
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no raise at beginning of WWI; weren't allowed to unionize, when strike ended, workers couldn't return to jobs; new policemen hired
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enabled people to buy goods over an extended period
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automobile, the airplane, the washing machine, the radio, the assembly line, refrigerator, garbage disposal, electric razor, instant camera, jukebox and television. all improved life
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Henry Ford makes cars affordable, labor is producing 70% more than they had been before
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Secret bars that replaced saloons after prohibition of alcohol, popular in cities
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Columbia professor and educational theorist during 1920s who advocated learning by doing, more educational freedom, and education for life as the goal of teachers.
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Public health program established in the South that eradicated hookwork.
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an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.
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an American novelist, short story writer, folklorist, and anthropologist known for her contributions to African-American literature.
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a Jamaican writer and poet, who was a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance
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a novelist and chronicler of the jazz age, his wife, zelda and he were the "couple" of the decade but hit bottom during the depression.
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Intellectual, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s.
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an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz.
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Laws separating blacks and whites in the USA
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a terrorist group who targeted african-americans and non-wasps, and resurfaced in the 1920s.
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movement arose in the United States, starting among conservative Presbyterian theologians at Princeton Theological Seminary
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Gangs fought each other to take over speakeasies
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People were in danger from gang shootings and had to break the law to drink
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the gap between rich and poor widened, personal debt increased, to many goods to little demand, speculation in stock market( high risk investments), buying on the margin, and trouble for farmers and workers.
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economic theory that holds that money lent to banks and businesses will trickle down to consumers
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Argued that direct federal relief would create a large bureaucracy
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Success comes through individual effort and private enterprise
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a wide national consensus sharply restricted the overall inflow of immigrants, especially those from southern and eastern Europe, and the second Ku Klux Klan, which flourished in the U.S. in the 1920s, used strong nativist rhetoric, but the Catholics led a counterattack.
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established the maximum number of eople who could enter the U.S. from each foreign country
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believed the government should interfere as little as possible so as to allow businesses to flourish
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Scene of a massacre of a small African American town. Represented the clash between a growing black middle class and resentful whites
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Limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota.
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Most famous leader of organized violence, who began 6 years of gang warfare in Chicago
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A novel depicting the picturesque idea of the self made American man and enterpreneur who rose from obscurity. was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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High school teacher John Thomas Scopes was charged with violating Tennessee's law against teaching evolution instead of the divine creation of man.
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In the 1920's, overproduction lead to agriculture failures.
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too many people with bad credit, banks overspeculating, Overroduction, mainly by manufacuturing and farmers
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murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang, led by al capone.
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colorado, kansas, texas, oklahoma, and new mexico were involved in the dust bowl.
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overgrazing, overplowing, severe drought, high heat and winds, grasshoppers and jackrabbits
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Provided jobs for single males on conservation projects
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Helped states to provide aid for the unemployed
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Created jobs on government projects
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Provided work in federal jobs
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Roosevelt declared a bank holiday and closed down all the banks to be inspected.
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Provided money to states to create jobs
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Established codes of fair competition
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Required corporations to provide complete information of all stock offerings and made them liable for misrepresentations.
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Created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corportation (FDIC), which protected bank deposits up to $5,000, thus reassuring the Americans that their money were safe
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Supervised the stock market and eliminated dishonest practices
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Quickly created as many jobs as possible
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Provided job training for unemployed young people and part-time jobs for needy students
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Created seven-member board to regulate the nation's money supply and the interest rates on loans
