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19th Amendment
The 19th amendment was the womens suffrage passage in the U.S constitution. This Amendment states "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." This was a important part of the 1920's becaus eof the fact that women have been fighting for this right for so long and it finally came to be in the 1920's. -
Flappers
Flappers was a breed of younge women in the 1920's that came about. They were women that wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz. This became a popular breed of women that were seen wearing excessive makeup, drinking, making sex a casual manner, smoking, driving automobiles. They were no the tupical respectable type of women, -
Harlem Renaissance
There was no offical date ot the start of the Harlem Renaissance. It was a cultural movement of the blacks. This was known as "New Negro Movement". This is when all the cultural aspects cam to life. Jazz was a important art that becam known in the Harlem Renaissance. Many black writters came about which was another reason this moment in time was important. Many of the ideas the Harlem Renaissance are still apaprt of todays culture. -
Polygraph
Invented by John Larson the polygraph measured and recorded physiological indicates such as blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and skin conductivity while the subject is asked and answers a series of questions. This was to find the truth or falseness of the answers given to the questions. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
There is no offical date of when this scandal started but except the year which was 1922. This was a bribary scandal that took place under Harding when he was in presidency. One of the men that was appart of Hardings party was accepting bribes and selling off oil reserves off of private property that did not belong to this person. -
The Chaleston Dance
This was named after a city Charelston, South Carolina. "The Charleston" by composer James Johnson which originated in the Broadway show Runnin' Wild. This show put the Charleton on the map. The peak of this fast paced dance was in 1927-1927. -
Scopes trial
The man known as scopes was really John Thomas Scopes. He was a highschool science teacher in a small town of Dayton, Tennesse. He was on trial for teching evolution in his class when in that pointo of time creationism was the only thing allowed to be taught. The ACLU wanted scopes to teach this so it could then be brought to public to change the law about it in the town of Tennesse. Scopes was willing to go to court to make a change to the law that was unessisary. -
Lindbergh's Solo flight
Known as "lucky lindey" Charles Lindbergh was a U.S mail air pilot. Then all of a sudden he came up off the map out of no where as the solo non stop flight. It was a distance of nearly 3,600 statute miles. -
Sacco and Vanzetti executed
Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were two Italian immagrants that were anarchists. They were convicted of murdering two men in a armed robbery in Massachusetts. The trial was full of appeals and a very contoversial trial. -
The first Talkie
Al Jolson opened at a New York Warner theatre and which then inagurated the start to the talkie era. He was very well known for his act called "blackface". He was a comedian and a jazz musician. Being the first talkie is important to this era because it then creates to now what we know as movies with sound or talking. Where as before Al Jolson all films were silent and had no sound and he brought voice to the films which lead to now a day movies. -
Black Tuesday
Black tuesday was known as the day in the 1920's where the stock market crashed. Days before there were heavy amounts of selling oe trading of stocks. The thursday berofe black tuesday was when a signaficant notice of what was potential to happen to the stock market. The stock market on black thursday lost 11% of its value because of heavy trade. Black tuesday goes down as the day Wall St. crashed. Most believe that black tuesday was one of the root causes to the Great Depression.
