American Yawp The New Era

Warren G. Harding

the twenty-ninth President of the United States; "return to normalcy"

-his presidency was the most corrupt: his cabinet appointees were individuals of true

stature that answered to various American constituencies

-Appointing of friends and close supporters

-died in office in August 1923

Teapot Dome Scandal

several officials conspired to lease government land in Wyoming to oil companies in exchange for cash. took place in Teapot, Wyoming.

Calvin Coolidge

Vice President to Warren Harding; took presidency when Harding died in August 1923

climbed republican ranks but continued Harding's economic approach refusing to take actions in defense of workers or consumers against American businesses. not afraid of supporting business interests and wealthy Americans by lowering taxes or maintaining high tariff rates

"Flappers"

women whose appearance was short hair/short dresses/cigarettes/more exposed/danced faster, connect to Mary Pickford, not a return to normalcy (of modesty), sex symbol arises from this

Great Migration

the exodus of black southerners to the industrialized north. an exodus of the South mainly of African Americans; head north and west to cities, the migration of the KKK can be attributed to the great migration due to the rise of minorities in the north, and Harlem Renaissance

Sacco and Vanzetti

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (italian immigrants) were arrested for robbery and accused of murder connected with an incident at a Massachusetts factory. trials was conversational due to the prosecutor used the fact that they are anachronistic

Scopes Trial

1925 trial of a Tennessee schoolteacher, John T. Scopes, for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. trial that dealt with questions of religious liberty, academic freedom, parental rights, and the moral responsibility of education

KKK

Against Blacks, Jews, Catholics. Used terror to control them

Alice Paul

American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the main leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote. leader of the National Woman's party, campaigned for an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution

Equal Rights Amendment

a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawing discrimination based on sex

Al Smith

the first Catholic to ever run for President; ran in 1928. the race was between Democratic governor of New York, whose catholic faith and immigrant background aroused nativists ran against Republican candidate Herbert Hoover

Selling Mrs. Consumer

Book; influential 1929 monograph by marketing expert and home economist Christine Frederick. Based on one of the earliest surveys of American buying habits, advised manufacturers and advertisers and how to capture the purchasing power of women, who, according to Frederick, accounted for 90% of household expenditures.

Model-T

first affordable car built by Henry Ford; sturdy, reliable, inexpensive, only came in black. symbol for the consumer era, fast and produced every 10 seconds, cheap enough that even the workers could buy, everyone wanted it, not the highest quality, social shift which more common people could own one, teens could go out now and not just be at home

Babe Ruth

"Home Run King" in baseball, provided an idol for young people and a figurehead for America. He saved the sport as the year beforehand a team took took a bribe to lose the World Series game, broke the record for home runs with 51 home runs, culture of escape and consumption. People wanted to be entertained and forget what was really going on.

Warner Bros

purposefully produced films that portrayed American values of opportunity, democracy, and freedom. immigrant populations popularized it, Jewish immigrants like Warner Bros started making movies due to the lack of opportunities present, showed that movies were for everyone (same price all seats and all movies) immigrant populations popularized it

The Jazz Singer

the first movie with synchronized words and pictures

Charles Lindbergh

American hero, flew across Atlantic nonstop, showed us that technology could take us places. IN WWI planes would drop bombs, but he showed us that planes in the 1920's could take us to Europe. pilot to fly in an airplane by himself from NY to Paris, famous, later his child was abducted and held for ransom but still killed

Mary Pickford

the original "Marilyn Monroe" aka a sex symbol. America's Sweetheart," who was earning one million dollars a year by 1920 through a combination of film and endorsements contracts.

Harlem Renaissance

A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished. Harlem was "the greatest Negro City in the World"' was manifested in theatre, art, and music and for the first time Broadway presented black actors, gave minorities a platform to tell their own stories

Marcus Garvey

a Jamaican publisher and labor organizer who arrived in New York City in 1916 and he built the largest black nationalist organization in the world which was The Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). sought to promote racial pride, encourage black economic independence and root out oppression in Africa and the Diaspora (headquartered in Harlem)

National Origins Act

a federal law that made immigration restrictions permanent. quota system, due to paranoia of foreigners government put in a restriction on how many immigrants from each country were allowed each year, strict of eastern and Southern Europeans