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Ford's perfection of the assembly line caused productivity to explode in his business; the assembly line was adopted by most industrial manufacturers by the early 1920s.
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With the end of wartime demand of crops in Europe, farmers found themselves indebted and their market weakened.
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With the former president's death, liberal Republicanism declined, allowing the conservative Republicans to return to power.
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With the introduction of the very first commercial radio station, Americans were able to enjoy a brand new form of mass entertainment and communication.
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This census indicated that 1920 was the very first year in which the majority of Americans lived in urban locations.
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Thanks to the rebellious youth of America, black-invented jazz music became prolific for several years.
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During the 20's, many young women began shun the idea of abstinence by wearing more suggestive clothes and performing loose dances.
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This long poem by Ezra Pound was about his own struggle to be a successful poet during an age of philistinism.
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This play written by Eugene O'Neill, which was about a former prostitute trying to turn her life around, won him the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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With the ratification of the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution and the passing of the Volstead Act to uphold it, the production and sale of alcohol were made illegal.
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This Ohio publisher was little more than a Republican puppet, and though he was not a bad man, many of the men he had chosen to be his underlings were corrupt.
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These laws, passed during peak periods of nativism, were designed to limit immigration from certain regions of the world (largely from Asia and southern/eastern Europe).
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This black musician became known for his trumpet skills, gravelly voice, and improvisation when he joined the Creole Jazz Band with his mentor Joe "King" Oliver.
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Around the time that radios became massively popular, new "heroes" arose in the public eye, such as sports superstars and popular actors.
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This novel by Sinclair Lewis revolved mainly around satire regarding conforming to society.
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Upon the untimely death of President Harding, Vice President Coolidge became President and was later reelected despite his relative lack of action while in office.
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This black musician led a popular jazz orchestra from 1923 until 1974, when he died.
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This Jamaican man tried to "free" black citizens from the oppression of whites by ferrying them to Africa; his movement collapsed when he was arrested for fraud.
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When Tennessee made teaching Darwin's theory of evolution illegal in public schools, a biology teacher named John Scopes broke the law intentionally to challenge the legality of this law court.
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After a previous crime boss died, the now infamous gangster Capone took over the crime organization and its illegal alcohol business.
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Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, this harsh novel was about the cancerous nature of the so-called "American dream."
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The KKK reemerged stronger than ever before with an intensified hatred of black citizens, as well as Catholics, Communists, and Jews; their white hands spread to take control of politics in the South, much to the dismay of the black citizens.
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This novel was the very first written by Ernest Hemingway, and was about a group of Brits and Americans who traveled to Pamplona from Paris to the running of the bulls.
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Republican Herbert Hoover and Democrat Alfred Smith competed for the presidency, which Hoover won in a landslide largely due to Smith's Catholicism.
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With intense selling of stocks at Wall Street, the stock market crash that set the Great Depression in motion began.
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In a panic from plummeting stock prices, millions of investors sold their stocks, which only made stock prices drop even further.
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By the end of the 1920s, over 26 million automobiles were owned by Americans; the sale of automobiles became vital for other industries as well, such as steel and rubber companies.
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President Hoover signed an extremely high tariff rate, thinking that it would protect US markets from foreign competition, but only made the problem worse.
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Oil began to replace coal as the number one energy source in factories, and electric motors began filling American homes thanks to novel products.
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With newer divorce laws allowing women to more easily escape toxic marriages, divorce increased across the country.
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Sick of the discrimination of the South, nearly 20% of black citizens moved to the North by 1930, where the discrimination was less intense and dangerous.
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When the current system for collection of war debts became impossible, President Hoover defaulted on the loans for several indebted nations.
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The ratification of the 21st amendment nullified the 18th Amendment, officially ending prohibition.
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To prevent total bank failure across the whole country, President FDR ordered banks to close until they could re-stabilize.
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President FDR began going onto radio broadcasts to address and reassure the American people, largely to ease their minds on the bank crisis.
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President FDR's new organization offered grants of money to local governments to assist the jobless.
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This government organization bought livestock and paid farmers not to plant in parts of their property in order to prevent overproduction from lowering prices.
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This government organization offered temporary manual labor jobs for the jobless.
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This government organization temporarily lifted antitrust laws and granted workers the right to unionize in order to improve the economy.
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President FDR signed this act, returning control of lands to Native American tribes.
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This government body was formed to regulate the stock market to prevent massive over-speculation that caused crashes.
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This government body helped both construction companies and homeowners by assisting in loans that would finance the construction or rebuilding of houses.
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With Western topsoil being picked up by powerful winds, massive dust storms transformed farmland in the West into the "Dust Bowl."
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This government organization provided high school and college students with part-time jobs, which they could keep until they got a full-time job.
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This government body gave loans to tenants, small farmers, and sharecroppers; it also formed camps for migrant workers to live in.
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This labor law legalized labor unions and the rights of labor unions.
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This act created a federal program designed to assist the public by providing checks for the unemployed, the disabled, dependents, and people over 65.
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This government organization hired unskilled workers for labor jobs and artistic workers to produce creative works in an attempt to lower unemployment.
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Despite having years of successful radio broadcasts, this Catholic priest was forced to end his broadcasts because of their Fascist and anti-Semitic themes.
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Novelist John Steinbeck wrote a book about the difficulties of dust bowl farmers, called "The Grapes of Wrath."
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In order to reduce relief roles, the Immigration and Naturalization Service forced over 400,000 Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans back into Mexico.
