the roaring twenties

the first cabinet official to go to jail

albert fall

was the harding administration significant?

no

President Harding called for a return to

normalcy

the Secretary of State responsible for the treaty of Washington

Charles Evans Hughes

limited the number of capital ships (battle ships)

treaty of Washington

established the Bureau of the Budget

harding

allows American women to maintain their citizenship after marrying an alien

Cable Act

the head of the Veterans Bureau who was convicted of fraud, bribery, and conspiracy

Charles Forbes

recognized black Americans' service during WWI, appropriated $500,000 to Howard University, promoted business for black Americans, decreased lynchings

Coolidge

another name for supply-side economics

trickle-down

Coolidge's Secretary of the Treasury

Andrew Mellon

boost business

boosterism

the U.S. policy that prevented Germany from selling its goods to America; 50% tariff

Fordney-McCumber tariff

what new problem will Germany create by trying to pay off its war reparations by printing more money?

inflation

outlawed war between the US and France

Kellogg-Briand Treaty

promoted the development of film as an art- new cinematic elements, technical effects, etc; promoted the Klan

The Birth of a Nation

D.W. Griffith's famous film

The Birth of a Nation

what employer gave black Americans equal opportunities as white Americans?

Ford

author of a poem that painted the North as more receptive of black Americans- led to the Great Migration

Langston Hughes

founder of the Universal Negro Improvement League- wanted black Americans to move to Africa and start a new nation

Marcus Garvey

the most famous jazz musician

Louis Armstrong

fear of foreigners

xenophobia

attorney general who carried out raids on Communists

Mitchell Palmer

the communists were known as

Bolsheviks or Reds

anti-communist Russians who were trying to defeat the Communists in Russia

White Army

the Communist organization that called for a worldwide communist revolution

Comintern

the fear of Communists

Red Scare

Italians who were arrested for murder; their trial became famous due to issues of prejudice

Sacco and Vanzetti

limits the number of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe to 2% of the number of that nationality already residing in the US

Johnson-Reed Act

the most important force shaping daily life in the 1920s

automobile

Henry Ford's affordable car

Model T

the nickname for Henry Ford's Model T

Tin Lizzie

introduced by Ford, this allowed him to produce 9,000 cars a day

assembly line

what replaced kerosene as the oil industry's best seller?

automobile

the first chain grocery store

piggly wiggly

the first fast food restaurant

a and w

second most transformative power in transforming America

electricity

most successful new electronic industry

radio

perfected the wireless transmission of sound

Marconi

the first radio station

KDKA

the Father of Country Music; lead singer of "The Singing Brakemen"

Jimmie Rodgers

Italian opera star

Enrico Caruso

the first election to be broadcast

Harding vs Cox

America's favorite pastime

baseball

eight players from the Chicago Black Sox were banned for life after throwing the game

1919 World Series Scandal

said he didn't throw the World Series game; reported suspicions to the owner-ignored; banned anyway

Shoeless Joe Jackson

the greatest baseball player of all time

Ty Cobb

nicknamed the "Georgia Peach"

Ty Cobb

compiled a .367 lifetime batting average, the highest in the history of baseball

Ty Cobb

leader in runs scored with 2,245

Ty Cobb

all time hit-leader until the 1980s

Ty Cobb

first inductee into baseball's Hall of Fame

Ty Cobb

one of the first five players inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame

Babe Ruth

"Sultan of Swat" and "Bambino"

Babe Ruth

revolutionized baseball in 1927 by hitting 60 homeruns

Babe Ruth

first millionaire baseball player

Ty Cobb

most famous baseball player in the Negro League

Satchel Paige

64 consecutive scoreless innings, a stretch of 21 straight wins, and a 31-4 record in 1933

Satchel Paige

at 42, he was allowed into the Major Leagues; helped Cleveland Indians win Penant

Satchel Paige

"Jack the Giant Killer"

Jack Dempsey

heavyweight champion from 1919-1926

Jack Dempsey

America's second most popular sport

boxing

defeated Dempsey in 1926; won the disputed rematch

Gene Tunney

"Galloping Ghost"- puts professional football on the map

Harold "Red" Grange

the greatest all-around athlete; Olympics-decathlon, pentathlon; football; baseball

Jim Thorp (Sac-Fox)

famous Notre Dame football coach; highest win percentage

Knute Rockne

"Win one for the Gipper"

Knute Rockne

first to fly solo across the Atlantic

Charles Lindberg

the plane in which Charles Lindberg flew

Spirit of St. Louis

nicknames for Charles Lindberg

Lucky Lindy/ Lone Eagle

new industry in the 1920s that created an image

advertising

examples of advertising

makeup, dog food, kleenex

specialized in sensational stories

tabloids

made people aware of cultural trends

radio

new dances

Charleston, cake walk, turkey trot

morally liberated women inspired by French women

flappers

liberated housewives- appliances, cars, and husband's high wages brought leisure for the first time

Blondies

someone who is in the know

hepcat

that's really great

cats meow (cat's pajamas)

snob

highhat

one who wears glasses

cheater

you're the man

big cheese

author of The Great Gatsby- showed the shallow self-involvement or narcissism of the era

F. Scott Fitzgerald

attempt to make alcohol illegal

prohibition movement

spiritual supporters of prohibition

billy sunday and william jennings bryan

led by women to end spouse and child abuse; also, to reduce crime

temperance movement

supporters of prohibition

drys

opponents of prohibition

wets

prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol

18th amendment

defined alcohol as 1/2 of 1%; made beer and wine illegal

Volstead Act

illegally made and sold liquor

bootleggers

illegal saloons (false front)

speakeasies

Scarface; leader of organized crime in Chicago; owned the Chicago police

Al Capone

7 of Bugsy Moran's gang are executed

St. Valentine's Day Massacre

FBI agent who brought down Al Capone

Elliott Ness

what was Al Capone arrested on? Where was he sent to prison?

tax evasion; alcatraz

teacher in Tennessee who agreed to to teach evolution at the request of American Civil Liberties Union

John Scopes

pits William Jennings Bryan against Clarence Darrow on the issue of teaching evolution

Scopes Monkey Trial

who won the Scopes Monkey Trial?

bryan

first action movie star