APUSH 1920

Spirit of St. Louis

Spirit of St. Louis

Charles Lindbergh in 1927 flew the first solo west to east conquest of the Atlantic. He piloted his single engine plane from New York to Paris in 33 hours

The Birth of a Nation

Spectacular among the first full length classics was D.W. Griffiths, The birth of nation. It glorified the KKK of reconstruction days defamed blacks

New Immigration

Immigrants that came from southern and eastern Europe

The Jazz singer

The first talkie starring Al Jolson, began a new era in 1927

Margaret Sanger

Led an organized birth control movement, championed the use of contraceptives

Flappers

Once modest maidens were now proclaimed their new freedom as young women appeared with him lines elevated, stockings rolled, breast tapped flat, cheeks rugged, drinking and smoking

Dr. Sigmund Freud

Appeared to argue that sexual repression was responsible for a variety of nervous and emotional ills

Speakeasies

Replaced the old time in only corner salons, illegal bars

John Dewey

Philosophers, father of vocational education, set forth the principals of learning by doing

Langston Hughes

Harlem peot who wrote Weary Blues in 1926

Marcus Garvey

Leader of the black African movement, founded in United Negro Imporvement Association(UNIA)

H.L. Mencken

The bad boy of Baltimore, had a critical attitude toward American society

F.Scott Fitzgerald

Became an overnight celebrity with this side of paradise in 1920, a Bible for the young people

Sinclair Lewis

Chief chronicler of Midwest life, heavey-drinker, hot-heated journalist who wrote Main Street in 1929

T.S. Elliot

Wrote "The Waste Land" in 1922, in it he produced one of the most influential poems of the century

Frank loyd Wright

Architect believe that buildings should grow from their sides and not imitate the Greeks and Romans

On margin

Buying stocks with a small down payment

Andrew Mellon

Secretary of the treasury didn't like taxes; passed a series of tax cuts from 1921-1926

Alfred E. Smith

Four-time governor of New York nominated by the Democrats in 1928

Washington Disarmament Conference

Led by hardening, offered to scrap the American navy, if other countries did

Hoovervilles

A cynical name for 10 and paper shantytowns, where people slept under newspapers, fire over the content of the garbage cans, or cooked their finding in old oil drums

Rugged Individualism

Hoovers excuse to not get involved with the depression

Hoover dam

On the Colorado river, voted by Congress under Coolidge, begun under Hoover, completed by FDR in 1936

Muscle Shoals Bill

Designed to dam Tennessee River and embraced by FDR's TVA

Bonus amry

Thousands of improvished Veterans, prepared to move on Washington to demand from Congress the immediate payment of their entire bonus. Many felt that riff raff and reds lead the army. General Douglas MacArthur carried out the veterans, prepared to move on Washington to demand from Congress the immediate payment of their entire bonus. Many felt that riff raff and reds lead the army. General Douglas MacArthur carried out the evection

Public Works Administration

Intended for industrial recovery and unemployment relief. Harold Ickes headed the agency

Forgotten man

Roosevelt preached the new deal for the forgotten man. He revealed a deep concern of the flight of the forgotten man. A phrase that he used in 1932, speech, although he was assailed by the rich as a traitor to his class

Harold L. Ickes

The secretary of the interior, former bull Mooser. He headed to the public works administration

Brain Trust

A small group of reform minded intellectuals. They were predominantly youngish college professors, who as a kind of kitchen cabinet, later authored much of the new deal legislation

Dust bowl

The name given to the state of Missouri, Texas, Kansas, Arkansas,And Oklahoma, because of rain last weeks followed by whinning winds. Overawed victims of the dust bowl disaster predicted the end of the world or the second coming of Christ

Hundred Days

After inauguration FDR moved decisively. He summoned the overwhelming democratic Congress into special session to cope with the national emergency

Indian Reorganization Act of 1934

Encouraged tribes to establish local self-government and to preserve their native crafts and traditions. It also helped to stop the loss of Indian lands and revived tribes interest in their identity and culture

Emergency Banking Relief Act of 1933

This law gave the president the power to regulate banking transactions, foreign exchange and to reopen solvent banks

John L. Lewis

A minor who worked his way up to presidency of the United mine workers of America

Fireside Chats

Speeches that President Franklin D Roosevelt gave on radio to calm the nation

Fair Labor Standards Act

Stated that industries involved in interstate commerce's were to set up minimum-wage and minimum our levels. Th eventual goal was a forty hour week and forty cents an hour

Civilian Conservation Corps

Law provided employment in fresh air government camps for about 3 million uniformed young men, many of whom might otherwise have been driven into criminal habits

John Maynard Keynes

British economist who argued that for a nation to recovery fully from a depression, the govt had to spend money to encourage investment and consumption

Federal Emergency Relief Act

It's chief aim was immediate relief rather than long range recovery. The result was the federal emergency relief administration, which was handed to Harry L Hopkins

Hatch act of 1939

It barred federal administrative officials, except the highest policy making officers, from active political campaigning and soliciting. It forbade the use of government funds for political purposes as well as the collection of campaign contributions from people receiving relief payments

Harry L. Hopkins

The leader of the federal relief administration, he was formally a New York social worker. His agency granted about $3 billion to the state for a direct payments or preferably for wages on the work projects

Father Coughlin

A Catholic priest in Michigan who began broadcasting in 1930 his slogan was social justice. His anti-new deal harangues to some 40 million radio fans finally became so anti-Semitic, fantastic, and demagogic that his superiors silenced him

Huey P. ("Kingfish") Long

A senator of Louisiana, he used his abundant rabble rousing talent to publicize his share our wealth program, which promised to make every man a king

Dr.Francis E. Townsend

A retired physician who is the savings had recently been wiped out. He attracted the pathetic support of perhaps 5 million senior citizens with his fantastic plan. Each oldster 60 years of age or over was to receive $200 a month provided that the money is spent within a month

National Recovery Administration

The ingenious scheme was by far the most complex and far reaching effort by the new dealers to combine immediate relief with long range recovery and reform. Triple-barreled, it was designed to assist industry, labor, and the unemployed