history chapter 8

5 Power Agreement

Great Britain, US, France, Italy, Japan (greatest navy to smallest navy)

President Harding

gets elected on "return to normalcy", ohio gang started by him, arms control

Kellogg-Briand Pact

15 countries agreed to denounce war as a national policy (Really weak, no way to enforce)

Which president favored business

Coolidge and Hoover

Ohio Gang

Charles R Forbes, Colonel Thomas W. Miller, Albert B Fall

Forbes

head of veterans bureau, he gets caught illegally selling government supplies to private businesses

Miller

head of office of alien property, gets caught taking bribes

Fall

secretary of the interior (incharge of all federal lands like parks), gets caught in teapot dome scandal (in teapot doming wyoming is where there was oil reserve, sells oil to private business)

A Mitchell Palmer

He wants to stop communism from spreading to our country
The fbi conducts what are called "palmer raids" they go into people's homes and arrest them
Thousands of people get deported out of country

Charles Evans Hughes

Secretary of State under Harding, Proposed a 10-year moratorium on the construction of major new warships at the Washington Conference

Madison Grant

professor of anthropology who works at museum of natural history and spreads racist ideas

Quota System

System instituted by government
Discriminates against people from southern or eastern europe
Catholic and jewish people
People from japan

Which violent group gets more active?

KKK

Dawes Plan

Got US bankers to loan money to germany so they can pay back GB and france
France and GB uses money to pay US back

Sports Heros

Gertrude ederle (First woman to swim across english channel, Was 19, 21 miles)
Babe ruth (Most famous baseball player)
Andrew "rube" foster (Famous negro league baseball player, Founded the league)
Helen wills (Dominant female tennis player)
Lou gehrig (Suffered from ALS)
Red grange (most dominant college football player)

Radio

brings people together

radio terms

"airwaves" "radio audience" "tune in"

Margeret Sanger

She opens first birth control clinic
American Birth Control League
Church is against this

Fundamentalism

Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion, beliefs and religion over science

2 preachers

Billy sunday and aimee semple McPherson

Lost Generation

Group of american writers that are hating american culture so they moved to europe
(Ernest hemmingway and John Dos Passos)

Famous Writers in 20s

Sinclair Lewis: "babbitt",
F Scott fitzgerald coins term "jazz age",
Dorthy Parker part of "round table",
Edith wharton "age of innocence",
Willia cather "My antonia"
Edna st vincent millay
Gertrude Stein described "lost generation"

Harlem Renaissance

Harlem becomes capital of black America
Attracted artists from all around world
Writers expressed pride in their heritage
Wrote about trials of being black in a white world

Monkey Trial

Scopes trial
clarence darrow and william jennings bryan
Darrow is most famous lawyer in US (hired to defend scopes)
Bryan was famous prosecutor
(scopes lost but it opened eyes)

Small Town Values

Conservative moral values
Close social relationships
Well to do families, set communities social standards
Church defines morals, parents back it up
Thrifty, respectful middle class practicing moderation

Behavior in City

Drinking and gambling
Casual dating
Foreigners
Competition
Arguing about current events
Judged on accomplishments and not background

Terms associated with Prohibition

Volstead act (Created prohibition department, Not well funded, Leads to lawlessness and organized crime)
Mafia is bringing in alcohol
Bootleggers (sneak in alcohol)
Speakeasies (are hidden clubs and bars)

Amendment that starts prohibition

18th amendment

Amendment that ends prohibition

21st amendment

Who supported Prohibition

from mostly protestant rural south and west (not immigrants, not veterans)

First movie with sound

"Jazz singer" starring al jolson 1927

First cartoon with sound

1928 "steamboat willie"
Starring micky mouse

First radio station

KDKA in pittsburgh

Famous road

Route 66