The Roaring Twenties

Vocabulary flashcards covering the economic, social, cultural, and political developments of the 1920s based on lecture notes.

Assembly Line

Production method used after the war to create cheaper consumer-based products, such as the automobile.

Henry Ford

Pioneer of the first car around $1904$ who introduced assembly line production in $1913$ and paid workers $\$5$ for an $8$-hour day.

Model T

An affordable car introduced in $1908$ that cost between $\$500 - \$650$ and was famously available in black only.

Alfred Sloan

Leader of General Motors who challenged Ford by offering more expensive cars in diverse colors and introducing the idea of buying on credit.

David Sarnoff

President of NBC, a company that dominated the huge radio business during the $1920s$.

The Jazz Singer

Released in $1927$, it was the first "Talkie" movie following the development of sound.

Charles Lindbergh

Trans-Atlantic flyer whose flight glorified American technology and made him one of the world's most recognized figures.

Dupont

Chemical company that diversified from gunpowder into textiles like Rayon, as well as paints, dyes, and artificial sponges.

Babe Ruth

The most popular athlete and symbol of the Roaring $20s$, known for big cars, nice clothes, and a flamboyant lifestyle.

Marcus Garvey

Founder of the UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association) who promoted racial pride and economic independence for Black Americans.

Zora Hurston

Author who collected and interpreted Afro-American folktales into books such as Mules and Men.

Cotton Club

Harlem venue owned by bootleggers where Black musicians like Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong played for predominately White patrons.

The Lost Generation

Literary movement characterized by pessimism and disillusionment following WWI, featuring authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Al Capone

Organized crime leader who became wealthy through bootlegging during the Prohibition era.

Speakeasies

Illegal clubs that served alcohol during the period of Prohibition.

Flappers

Young women known for short hair, short dresses, smoking, and a fast style of dancing.

Mitchell Palmer

Attorney General who, with J. Edgar Hoover, led the "Soviet Ark" deportations to round up suspected Communists.

Sacco and Vanzetti

Italian Anarchists and labor organizers who were executed for robbery and murder during a time of widespread hysteria.

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

Nativist group that grew significantly in the North and Midwest during the $1920s$, targeting those who were not American-born and Protestant.

Immigration Restriction 1924

Legislation that used the $1890$ census to reduce Asian and Slavic immigration to $2\%$ of that year's numbers.

Scopes Trial

Legal battle in Dayton, Tennessee, regarding a teacher who challenged the law against teaching evolution, involving William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow.

Aimee Semple MacPherson

California evangelist and urban fundamentalist who was the first to get a radio license and used an orchestra in her temple.

Warren G. Harding

Republican President from $1920 - 1923$ whose administration was dominated by the Ohio Gang and the Teapot Dome scandal.

Calvin Coolidge

Stoic Republican President known as "Silent Cal" whose philosophy was "The business of America is business."

Al Smith

The first Catholic to run for President; he was a New York Democrat, an immigrant's son, and a "wet" opponent of prohibition.

Herbert Hoover

Republican mining engineer and cabinet member elected in $1928$ who was expected to continue national prosperity.