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Term coined by Warren Harding in an address before the Home Market Club in Boston, this term came to symbolize, to powerful businessmen, the immediate abandonment of the foreign and domestic policies of Wilson. This meant a return to high protective tariffs and a reduction in taxes.
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Republican president, successor of Theodore Roosevelt. His campaign slogan was "A Return to Normalcy."
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Jazz music became a symbol of the "new" and "modern" culture of the cities, especially for young people.
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Set of religious beliefs including traditional Christian ideas about Jesus Christ.
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Centered in Hollywood, California, it became big business. Going to the movies became a national habit everywhere.
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An American expatriate poet, musician and critic who was a major figure in the Modernist movement in poetry.
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The radio became the new mass of media and entertainment after newspapers. Enabled people all over the country to listen to the same things.
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Created the Universal Negro Improvement Association, promoted the "Back to Africa" movement, organized black businesses and established a corps of Black Cross nurses.
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Founded by Marcus Garvey, a movement that encouraged those of African decent to return to Africa to their ancestors so that they could have their own empire because they were treated poorly in America.
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Modernists took a historical and critical view of certain passages in the Bible and believed they could accept Darwin's theory of evolution without abandoning their religious faith.
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Wrote during the Harlem Renaissance. He was an African American and was the best known poet in the Harlem movement.
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Black artistic movement in NYC when writers, poets, painters, and musicians came together to express feelings and experiences, especially about the injustices of Jim Crow.
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The prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol from 1920-1933. Goal was to eliminate drunkenness.
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Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages.
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Social and fashion movement by young women who tried to rebel against traditional values by wearing short dresses, rolled stockings, red lipstick/makeup; smoked cigarettes, drank, drove cars.
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Established the maximum number of immigrants from any given country.
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A government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921.
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Primary task is to prepare annual budget every January; also controls the administration of the budget, improving it and encouraging government efficiency.
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A group of men that were friends with President Harding. Harding appointed them to offices and they used their power to gain money for themselves. They were involved in scandals that ruined Harding's reputation even though he wasn't involved.
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Rose the rates on imported goods in the hopes that domestic manufacturing would prosper. Prevented foreign trade, which badly affected the economy since Europe could not pay its debts if it could not trade.
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A journalist who wrote Main Street and Babbitt, belittled small-town America, and was the chief chronicler of Midwestern life. Master of satire.
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One of the most influential jazz bandleaders and composers of all time.
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The Republican candidate was Coolidge, the Democratic candidate was John W. Davis, and the Progressive candidate was Follette.
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Restricted immigration from any one nation to 2% of the number of people already in the U.S of that national origin in 1890, which severely restricted immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, and excluded Asians entirely.
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A novelist who wrote The Great Gatsby.
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Stock market at all time high, stocks selling for more than they are worth.
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Author who wrote The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms, exemplified the "Lost Generation" of WWI.
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An innovative playwright who portrayed realistic characters and situations (Strange Interlude).
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Economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash.
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The day when prices in the stock market took a steep dive, plunging over $10 million dollars.
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The stock market dropped violently, losing much of its value and contributing to the start of the Great Depression.
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Affected everything Americans did; shopping, traveling, commuting, dating, etc.
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Parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas that were hit hard by dry topsoil and high winds that created blinding dust storms.
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U.S. legislation that raised import duties by as much as 50%, adding to the Great Depression.
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The nickname given to farmers and their families who came from the regions of Oklahoma or Texas to California in search of the "Promised Land."
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Herbert Hoover's economic policy. Help the rich instead of the common people. If the rich get richer, their investments supposedly will lead businesses to expand, and some of that money will trickle down to the people in the form of jobs and salaries.
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Roosevelt's New Deal Program served as a way to relief people from out of work, recovery for businesses and the economy, and the reform of economic institutions.
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One of Hoover's policies to help the depression. Provided $1.5 billion in loans to railroads, mortgage companies, and banks on the verge of collapse.
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F.D.R made a campaign promise to repeal Prohibiton and raise more tax money for Congress by passing the Beer-Wine Revenue tax, which legalized the sale of beer and wine. The 21st amendment was then passed to repeal the 18th
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As the financial part of the New Deal program FDR enacted four programs to help fix the banks: Federal Deposit Insurance Company (insurance on deposits of up to 5,000 dollars), Home Owners Loan Corporation (prevents foreclosures on small homes), Emergancy Bank Relief Act ( authorized the govenment to examine the finances of banks during holidays), and the Farm Credit Administration (provides low interest farm loans and mortgages to prevent foreclosure).
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Many of the programs created during thr Hundred Days were related to the aid of unemployed workers such as: the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (offers federal grants to states and local governments that operated soup kitchens), the Public Works Administation (gave money to states for building roads or other public work which sourced jobs), and the Civilian Conservation Corps (employed young men on federal land projects).
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The key program of FDR's New Deal was the establishment of the National Recovery Administration (NRA) which provided long-term and immediate relief, but it was later declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1935.
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The CWA was added to the PAW and many other New Deal Programs as a way to create jobs by hiring laborers for temperary construction jobs.
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The SEC was created to regulate the stock market and make strict limits on kinds of speculative practices that aided in the market crash of 1929.
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The Social Security Act was created as a federal insurance program that automatically collects tax money from employees and employers during their work careers and then will be given back monthly to the employee at the age of 65.
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A revenue act was enacted and as a result, it signficantly increased taxes on the income of the wealthy few, capital gains, and large gifts.
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The REA provided loans for electrical cooperatives, so they could supply power to rural areas.
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The Wagner Act guarantees worker's the right to join a union and union's have the right to bargain collectively.
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The administration provided loans to sharecroppers, small farmers, and tenants, and it also estalished federal camps for migrant workers.
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The WPA spent billions of dollars to help provide jobs for people from 1935 to 1940.
