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Normalcy
1920s were called the age of normalcy by Harding; despite this it was an era of significant social change; promised a return to normalcy in an inaugural address
McNary-Haugen Bill
high tariffs against foreign agricultural food urged by champions of parity; government commitment to buy surplus crop and sell them abroad
Margaret Sanger
pioneer of the American birth control movement; believed that large families were a major cause of poverty
The Flapper
women who concluded that it was no longer necessary to maintain a rigid Victorian respectability; result largely of Freudian ideas
Lost Generation
referred to the young Americans emerging from WWI; generation of artists and intellectuals found the new society especially disturbing
Sinclair Lewis
first American to win a Nobel Prize in literature; wrote Mainstreet, Babbit, and Arrowsmith; lashed out at aspects of society
F. Scott Fitzgerald
ridiculed the American obsession with material success in the book Great Gatsby
Harlem Renaissance
post WWI; new generation of black artists and intellectuals created a flourishing African American culture
National Origins Act of 1924
banned immigration from east asia entirely; deeply angered the Japanese government
The Scopes Trial
1925 court case in which Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan debated the issue of teaching evolution in public schools
Calvin Coolidge
governor of MA in 1919; VP under Harding; dour and silent; honest beyond reproach
Teapot Dome Scandal
Harding transferred control of the oil reserves at Teapot Dome from the navy to the Department of Interior; Fall leased them out for loans of nearly half a million dollars
