the jazz age

warren g harding

29th president known for his scandals like Teapot dome even though he promised to bring a return to normalcy after World War I.

Ohio gang

Corrupt Friends of harding who got government jobs and were involved with scandals.

Teapot Dome Scandal

Bribery scandal where officials were illegally leased navy oil reserves to private companies

Calvin Coolidge

30th U.S. president, known for pro-business policies and limited government involvement

Kellogg-Briand Pact

International agreement to avoid war as a means of resolving disputes, signed in 1928.

Henry Ford

American industrialist and founder of the Ford Motor Company, revolutionized automobile manufacturing with assembly line production which made cars affordable.

Impact of car on US society

Led to more roads, suburbs, travel motels, and gas stations giving people more freedom to move around

Mass Advertisements

New marketing through radios, newspaper, and billboards that encouraged consumerism.

Charles Lindbergh

First person to fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927, becoming an international hero and symbol of the Jazz Age's spirit of adventure.

Farm Crisis

A period of economic hardship in the agricultural sector during the 1920s, characterized by falling crop prices and increased debt among farmers.

KKK

White supremacist group that grew in the 1920s, targeting African Americans, immigrants, catholic, and jews.

nativism

Anti-immigrant movement that led to stricter immigration laws

Sacco & Vanzetti Case

A highly publicized trial in the 1920s involving two Italian immigrants accused of robbery and murder, highlighting issues of nativism and justice in America.

National Origins Act 1924

Legislation that established quotas based on national origin, significantly limiting immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe and prohibiting Asian immigrants.

Changes for women

women became “flappers” with new style, independence, and social freedom. they also gained the right to vote (19th amendment)

prohibition

18th amendment banned alcohol, leading to bootlegging, speakeasies, and the rise of gangsters like Al Capone.

Scopes trial

A 1925 trial over teacher, John Scopes, teaching evolution, symbolizing the clash between science and religion

Lost Generation

Writers like Hemingway and Fitzgerald who criticized materialism in WW1

Babe Ruth

Baseball superstar known for home runs; became a symbol of American sports and pop culture.

Mass Media

Growth of radio, newspapers, and movies that created shared national culture and celebrity worship

Harlem Renaissance

Explosion of African American Culture, Art, Music, and Literature in Harlem NYC

Jazz

A new music style bending African American musical traditions with improvisation, symbolizing the Roaring Twenties.

Cotton Club

A famous Harlem nightclub where black performers like Duke Ellington play for white audience.

Great Migration

the large-scale movement of millions of African Americans from the rural South to urban areas in the North and West

Claude McKay

his poems challenged white authority while celebrating Jamaican culture

NAACP

Standing for National Association for Advancement of Colored People, is a civil rights organization for fighting segregation, lynching, and racial injustice

UNIA

Standing for Universal Negro Improvement Association represented the largest mass movement in African American History

Marcus Garvey

Founded the UNIA association and aimed achieve black nationalism through celebration of African history and culture.