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Brought by north African Americans musicians symbolized new and modern for the youth
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Newspapers were the mass media but radios had been made, movie industry was in Hollywood
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Shifted from politicians to athletes and movie stars, like boxer Jack Dempsey, baseball player Babe Ruth,swimmer Gertrude Ederle, football player Jim Thorpe
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Advertising expanding making it easier for companies to get buyers, people started buying appliances and automobiles
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Believed that they can still have critical view on some of the passages in the bible but still believe in Darwin's theory of evolution
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Opposite of the modernist and thought every word of the bible would be accepted. key point was creationism
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Alcohol was still banned but people still sold and drunk it in public, paying police to not say anything and people making or smuggling it from Canada into the U.S
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Republicans supported the prohibition but the Democrats didn't and the increase of illegal activity rising with help from the southerns in the party they got the 18th amendment repeal
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Wanted to limit government regulation instead of laissez-faire to help the business make profits to help lead the economy
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Friend of Ezra, one of the lost generation essayist. Lived in the U.S then moved to England
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20% of Northern African American lived in Harlem New York where actors, artist, musicians, and writers came from
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In the poems expressed emotion of bitterness but also resentment and joy and hope. Countee Cullen Langstan Hughes, James Weldon, and Claude McKay
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Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington and Bessie Smith played for integrated audience in Harlem but segregated in other cities
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Advocated individual and racial pride for African Americans. made a movement to go back to Africa but was jailed for fraud and shipped back to Jamaica
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Lost generation novelist wrote about satirical takes.
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Lost generation playwright. Play Beyond the Horizon was played on Broadway in 1920
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Most industries used the assembly line and and gained productivity by doing so
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Increase in electric and oil. Coal was still used for homes and railroads but oil was used in industries and automobiles. Electric in homes for appliances
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Didn't mind the growth in big businesses, offered corporate tax and didn't enforce the antitrust act
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had debt from after the war and productivity had made it easier to produce but added to their debt
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Wages rose but union started to fall by trying to keep nonunion workers out, strikes had happened. In south police had to use violence
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African Americans were still at the bottom and were the last people to be hired
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Warren Harding had increased tariffs, reduced income tax, made bureau of budget creating scandals but was never caught
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Limited the amount of immigrant that came to the U.S decreasing the immigrant percent 3% in 1921 and to not seem discriminating 2% in 1924
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Italian immigrants protested against racist and prejudices for these two who were convicted of robbery and murder
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Calvin Coolidge known as "silent cal" for saying if you don't speak you won;t have to repeat. Thought business could handle their own so government was limited
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Lost generation poet that lived in London but moved to Paris then Italy writing Eleven New Cantos
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One of the Lost generation writers that lived in Paris but took his life because of all the stuff after the war. Wrote the Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms speaking of WW1
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Smith(Democrat) ran for president in 1928, was catholic and was with prohibition and and immigrants but protestant were against him
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Herbert Hoover(Republican) won the election of 1928 continued the Coolidge Prosperity to end poverty won over the south but mainly because most disagreed with Smith religion
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More than 26.4 million cars had been apart of the U.S culture making it easier to shop, travel, date but had injuries and deaths too.
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People hoped that they would make a profit from the market going up and sell it when it was low. Most put all their money in the investment of stocks
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Black Tuesday was made when the market was going down to stop the decline by putting money i the bank but only lasted a day then Black Thursday came and the market kept dropping
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Hawley Smoot Tariff increase tariffs on foreign imports(highest in history)making other countries rise theirs making everyone into depression more
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Drought that happened in the plains killing most farmers crops
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Lasted 6 years messing with the agriculture needed in the U.S
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With federal help he made a Farm Board that was to help farmers stabilize but overproduction still happened. RFC started in big businesses then smaller to help stabilize the economy
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First hundred days Roosevelt called all congress in and made laws and organization that were all passed.
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Bank Holiday was to help bank restore the money and stop some of the panic by doing so all the banks were closed
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Repeal of Prohibition was a promise he made during the campaign and even passed an Beer and wine act making it legal to sale . 21st amendment overide the 19th
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Fireside Chats, Roosevelt went on radio telling people the bank holiday was over and it was safe to deposit money
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Financial recovery programs FDIC granted 5,000 bank deposit, HOLC refinanced small homes from foreclosure, farm credit administration prevent foreclosure for farmers in debt
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Unemployed had FERA were they built sup kitchens, PWA made public things to offer jobs, CCC was for younger people to support their family, TVA nation job offered to poor
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Industrial recovery NRA was made to help organize businesses but sine antitrust was suspended bug companies were the focus
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Farm production control had the AAA which encouraged to reduce production and pay the government
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WPA sent million and provided people with jobs. paid more than the relief but less than a regular job,built building but unemployed with talent were assigned jobs to show it.
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RA provided loans to sharecropper, tenants, and smaller farmers. federal camps for migrant workers
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National labor Relation Act stated a worker could join the union and the union could barter collectively.
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REA provided loans so electric companies could provide power to rural areas
