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Amelia Earhart
Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this accomplishment.Author of Last Flight, The Fun of It -
Model T
The Model T was an automobile built by the Ford Motor Company from 1908 until 1927. Conceived by Henry Ford as practical, affordable transportation for the common man, it quickly became prized for its low cost, durability, versatility, and ease of maintenance. -
The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930's. During this period Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars. -
Flappers
Flappers were a generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. -
The Jazz Age
The Jazz Age was a post-World War I movement in the 1920's from which jazz music and dance emerged. Although the era ended with the outset of the Great Depression in 1929, jazz has lived on in American popular culture. -
Growth of Organized Crime
The American Mafia, an Italian-American organized-crime network with operations in cities across the United States, particularly New York and Chicago, rose to power through its success in the illicit liquor trade during the 1920s Prohibition era. -
Growth of The KKK
The groups targeted by the 1920's KKK included the 'New Immigrants', African Americans, Mexicans, Jews, Catholics, Asians and any groups who represented "un-American" values or beliefs, such as organized labor. Many people were joining the KKK around this time because they thought they has the "superior" race. -
Buying on The Margin
Buying on margin is the purchase of an asset by paying the margin and borrowing the balance from a bank or broker. Buying on margin refers to the initial or down payment made to the broker for the asset being purchased; the collateral for the borrowed funds is the margin-able securities in the investor's account. -
Prohibition
Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933. -
Growth of Movies
The 1920's was a time for the movie industry to really blossom and expand. It was the beginning of the studio and the birth of the "star". The majority of film making actually took place in the Hollywood area. In fact, during the mid 1920's, around 800 movies were being created each year. Hollywood was the rise of a new cultural phenomenon. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
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. Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. In 1922 and 1923, the leases became the subject of a sensational investigation by Senator Thomas J. Walsh. -
Labor Problems in The 1920's
The period from 1921 to 1933 roughly encompassed an economic cycle that catapulted the nation to unprecedented heights of prosperity and then, in the great Depression, plunged it into unparalleled and seemingly intractable misery. After the activism of the administration of Woodrow Wilson and particularly the explosion of government programs and government regulation of the economy during World War I, in the 1920s there was a complete turnaround. -
Black Tuesday
The stock market crash of 1929, which began with 'Black Tuesday,' (October 29) led to this widespread situation across the United States in the early 1930's. Business in the country was slowing, and the economy had stalled, but investors kept pouring money into the stock market. On Black Tuesday, the bubble burst, causing bank panics and sending the U.S. into an economic downward spiral that became the Great Depression. -
Stock Market Crash
Black Monday – the Stock Market Crash of 1987. The Stock Market Crash of 1987 or "Black Monday" was the largest one-day market crash in history. The Dow lost 22.6% of its value or $500 billion dollars on October 19th 1987.
