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a picture of children that was part of a march of between 8,000 and 10,000 African Americans
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inspiration for many black leaders and writers such as Langston Hughes
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it (the 18th amendment) did not define "intoxicating liquors" or provide penalties. It granted both the federal government and the states the power to enforce the ban by "appropriate legislation." A bill to do so was introduced in Congress in 1919
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as a nationwide constitutional ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933
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the start of prohibition, and the effects of rummrunners and gangsters begin.
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was an extremely sharp deflationary recession in 1920
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the urban population reaches it highest point
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due to lots of people using radios,
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he becomes the most well-known trumpet player in history
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The Crisis began as, and has always been, the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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this ends up helping the rebirth of the kkk, and makes people not want to teach evolutionism in school.
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he became one of the great jazz players, and was part of the best known orchestral jazz unit
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the book examines the lives and morality of post–World War I youth
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this was a proffesional basketball team from harlem
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Republican National Convention meeting in Chicago nominated Warren G. Harding, an Ohio newspaper editor and United States Senator, to run for president with Calvin Coolidge, governor of Massachusetts, as his running mate.
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The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding
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helped increase prohibition among other things
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he was an american old-time banjo player
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in harlem, new york, it was showing that the black population was progressing rapidly
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plight of farmers until a better solution could be put into place
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The U.S. government sent military forces to settle the border dispute between Panama and Costa Rica
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It limited the construction of battleships, battlecruisers and aircraft carriers by the signatories
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During that time, the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcoholic beverages was illegal throughout the United States, and these places were the easiest to get it, illegally still, of course
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Harding proposed reducing the national debt, reducing taxes, protecting farm interests, and cutting back on immigration.
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this stopped immigration of chinese to canada
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The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota
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he emphasis in Americanization programs was gradually shifted from emergency propaganda to a long-time educational program
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is often described as the symbolic meditation on the "Jazz Age" in American literature
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a group of American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights
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it was controversial because of how much sex was depicted and very explicit
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The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front
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he instructed the justice department to go after gangsters for tax evasion
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he created land for national parks
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The crash followed a speculative boom that had taken hold in the late 1920s
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was an act sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley and signed into law on June 17, 1930, that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels
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unanchored soil becomes dust, it's a severe drought
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In 1932, the Pecora Commission was established by the U.S. Senate to study the causes of the crash
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raised United States tax rates across the board
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The term Glass–Steagall Act usually refers to four provisions of the U.S. Banking Act of 1933 that limited commercial bank securities, activities, and affiliations within commercial banks and securities firm
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was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes
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Fireside chats is the term used to describe a series of 30 evening radio addresses given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944
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as a United States federal law of the New Deal era which reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock
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was an act passed by the United States Congress in 1933 in an attempt to stabilize the banking system
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that cut the salaries of federal workers and reduced benefit payments to veterans, moves intended to reduce the federal deficit in the United States
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navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley
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Legislated pursuant to the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution, it requires that any offer or sale of securities using the means and instrumentalities of interstate commerce be registered with the SEC pursuant to the 1933 Act, unless an exemption from registration exists under the law.
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he Gold Reserve Act outlawed most private possession of gold
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dust storm that went from canada to america, one of the worst dust storms in history
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that focused on providing work and education for Americans between the ages of 16 and 25.
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2as enacted when Congress overrode President Franklin D. Roosevelt's veto on January 27, 1936
