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The Rise of David Levinsky- Literature
Tells the story of an immigrant achieving success but having to pay a heavy price for it. -
Politic:Treaty of Versaill
This is the treaty that ended WW1 -
18th amendment- Prohibition
This prohibited the use or buying of alcohol in america. -
Anti-Saloon League- Prohibition
To provide for enforcement of the amendment, a powerful lobbying group called the Anti-Saloon League, led by its top lawyer, Wayne B. Wheeler, devised the National Prohibition Act, also known as the Volstead Act. -gilderlehamn -
19th amendment- political
This granted suffrage to women stat wide. -
Ezra Pound- Literature
Created a new form of poetry called imagism. She wanted the image to produce the emotion, to “speak for itself” -
the Red Scare
A "Red Scare" is promotion of widespread fear by a society or state about a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism -
1920s U.S. Election
The U.S. presidential election of 1920 was dominated by the aftermath of World War I. It was all based upon what the citizens thought would help them the st after all that sis. -
Hardingers Policy
Warren G. Harding's policy of a "return to normalcy" was an attempt to capitalize on this populist feeling. -
Fashion!!!!
the era of the "flapper". Flapper dresses and big bulky coats were huge in the era of prohibition -
Crafts in womens culture
Handcrafts passed down from mother to daughter were a popular recreational activity in the 1920's, especially when the introduction of electric lighting meant the dark hours of winter and evenings could be gainfully employed. -
Harlem Renaissance
the period is considered a golden age in African American culture, manifesting in literature, music, stage performance and art. -
Sacco and Vanzetti- culture
First real murder case that created a divide in the U.S. -
Lynching- African American Identity
In November 1922, the NAACP ran full page ads in newspapers pressing for the passage of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. Entitled “The Shame of America,” the ad laid out the shocking statistics of lynching from 1899 through 1922. -gilderlynham -
Jazz and Blues Emerge
The advent of radio and the ready availability of phonograph records which were selling in the tens of millions in the late nineteen-twenties introduced jazz to people living in even the most remote locations. -
Movement- Econmy
People living in the cities and areas of industry benefited most from the increased prosperity although there were arguments to the contrary. Those living in rural areas did not benefit to the same extent, and this was made worse by widespread drought -
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot - Literature
The ultimate indictment of the modern world's loss of personal, moral, and spiritual values. -
Black Pride
This considerable population shift resulted in a Black Pride movement with leaders like Du Bois working to ensure that black Americans got the credit they deserved for cultural areas of life. -
Herbert Hoovers policys
Hoover did not stand idly by after the depression began. To fight the rapidly worsening depression, Hoover extended the size and scope of the federal government in six major areas: (1) federal spending, (2) agriculture, (3) wage policy, (4) immigration, (5) international trade, and (6) tax policy. -
National Origins Act- Immigration
This law allowed in more western European immigrants. -
Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers- Religion
This is a novel about a "Fictional" story where a man refuses to give up his spiritual identify in order to conform. -
The Great Gatsby- Culture
This novel features the culture and jazz of the 1920 era. -
The New Negro by Alain Locke - African American
- A hopeful look at the negro in America
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Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers- Literature
tells the story of a rabbinical patriarch who refuses to compromise his pious spiritual studies in the face of the New World’s materialistic culture and he expects his daughters to support him. -
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner -Literature
Details the moral decay of the Old South -
Surrealist movement
The Surrealism movement began in post-World War I European avant-garde literary and art circles, and many early Surrealists were associated with the earlier Dada movement. -
Standardization
Herbert Hoover, the Commerce Secretary, organized within the Department of Commerce a Bureau of Standards that promoted standardization of practices and equipment with the objective of reducing waste in time, labor, materials, and capital within certain industries. The standardization was necessary to help industry cope with the rapidly increasing demands being placed on it by consumer purchases. -
Wall Street Crash- Stock market
This was by far the worst stock market crash in American history.The crash destroyed the fortunes of brokers and speculators and set off a long period of economic panic. -
Wall Street Crash- Stock market
Marked the beginning of the Great Depression, -
Hoover’s statement on the economy- Economic
This was hoovers address to try and calm the people about the economic crash. It was far too late. -
Herbert Hoovers policys
Shortly after the stock market crash in October 1929, Hoover extended federal control over agriculture by expanding the reach of the Federal Farm Board (FFB), which had been created a few months earlier.7 The idea behind the FFB was to make government-funded loans to farm cooperatives and create “stabilization corporations” to keep farm prices up and deal with surpluses. This plan failed. -
Religion- Michael Gold’s Jews Without Money
This is anther example of religion being introduced into novels to help show the struggles of being not catholic on a mostly catholic christian nation. -
Unemployment- Economy
By 1930, more than 3.2 million people were unemployed, up from 1.5 million before the stock market crash of October 1929. -
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl intensified the crushing economic impacts of the Great Depression and drove many farming families on a desperate migration in search of work and better living conditions. -
Dust Bowl
By 1934, an estimated 35 million acres of formerly cultivated land had been rendered useless for farming, while another 125 million acres—an area roughly three-quarters the size of Texas—was rapidly losing its topsoil. -
Glass-Steagall Banking Act (1933)
Created Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to insure personal bank accounts
Separated commercial from investment banking – The ‘Firewall.’ -
National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)
Legalized industry collaboration for price controls and collective bargaining for labor. -
Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933, Reauthorized 1938)
Introduced measures to reduce crop supply, stabilize prices and support farm incomes. -
Emergency Banking Relief Act (1933)
Gave the president emergency powers over the US banking system, under which he called a ‘bank holiday’ to allow evaluation of all banks and closure of insolvent ones. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) (1933)
Insured bank deposits against bank failure, up to a certain level. -
Securities Act (1933) & Securities Exchange Act (1934)
Created Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Allowed federal regulation of stock trading in public corporations. -
Income and Wealth Taxes (1934-1941)
Greater emphasis on progressive taxation and taxation on wealth; consistent revenue increases achieved. -
Virgin Islands Company (1934)
Rehabilitated the sugar and rum industries of the Virgin Islands; reduced unemployment; provided various farm services and loan programs; coordinated with a homesteading program. -
Gold Reserve Act (1934)
Called in all private gold and created a government hoard (Fort Knox). -
Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act (1934)
Protected farms from creditor repossession. -
Legislation for American Indians in Oklahoma and Native Alaskans (1936)
Extended provisions of the Indian Reorganization Act to these areas. -
U.S. Travel Bureau (1937)
Helped increase recreational travel & tourism within the United States. -
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita -Immigration
This is yet another novel in which it depicts what its like to be an immigrant, in this however, they talk about the perspective of an immigrant being wealthy.
