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Warren G Harding
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Harding's rise to presidency.
Born 1865 in Corsica, Ohio.He was elected to the Ohio General Assembly in 1898.Later on in 1903, Voters elected him as Ohios lieutenant governor in 1903 and then US senator in 1914. After serving a term, Harding ran for and won the presidency in 1920 -
Great Migration
event that occurred during WW1 and the 1920s, when hundreds of thousands of African Americans moved from the rural South to industrial cities in the North -
Harlem Renaissance
the name given to the flowering of African American arts that began in the 1920s, leading to artistic development, racial pride, and political organization for blacks in New York City -
Fundamentalism
religious movement that arose to prominence in the 1920s, based on the belief that the Bible was literally true and without error, and which opposed the moral decline they saw in America from the consumer culture, relaxed ethics, and changing roles of women -
Teapot Dome
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Teapot Dome Scandal
political scandal that began in early 1922 when the secratary of the interior secretly allowed private interests to lease lands containing U.S. Navy oil reserved in Wyoming and California, revelations that eventually landed that cabinet officer in prison -
Charles G Dawes
American diplomat who, in 1924, negotiated an agreement with France, Britain, and Germany by which American banks would make loans to Germany that would enable it to make reparations payments following its defeat in WW1 -
Kellog-Briand Pact
treaty, signed by the U.S., France, and other nations in 1928, whereby all the signatories agreed to abandon war and to settle all disputes by peaceful means
