The Progressive Era

Booker T. Washington

Founder of the Tuskegee Institute and proponent of gradual change

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Civil rights organization founded in 1909 to combat racial discrimination

W.E.B. Du Bois

Founder of the NAACP who believed in immediate change

Marcus Garvey

Advocated that African Americans should move back to Africa

Louis Armstrong (Satchmo)

Famous jazz musician of the Harlem Renaissance

Social Gospel

Belief that Christian principles should be applied to social problems

Automobile (Car) Industry

Major cause of economic prosperity in the 1920s that made Henry Ford wealthy

Credit (Installment Buying)

Greatest factor allowing consumers to buy household goods and cars in the 1920s

Ida Tarbell

Muckraker who exposed abuses of the Standard Oil Trust

Gospel of Wealth

Idea that accumulation of wealth benefits society through philanthropy

Flappers

1920s women who challenged traditional behavior and fashion norms

Speakeasies

Illegal bars that sold alcohol during Prohibition

Muckrakers

Journalists who exposed corruption and abuses of power

The Scopes Trial (Monkey Trial)

Demonstrated conflict between religious fundamentalism and science

16th Amendment

Income tax

17th Amendment

Direct election of senators

18th Amendment

Prohibition of alcohol

19th Amendment

Women’s suffrage

21st Amendment

Repeal of Prohibition

Washington Naval Conference

Meeting where naval disarmament treaties were negotiated after WWI

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

Organization that sought to prohibit alcohol to preserve family life

Isolationism

U.S. foreign policy between World War I and World War II

Kellogg-Briand Pact

1928 treaty renouncing war except for self-defense

Post-WWI Demobilization

Reason many women and African Americans lost jobs after World War I

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

White supremacist group that resurged in the 1920s

Lost Generation

Group of writers disillusioned with American materialism after WWI

Harlem Renaissance

Cultural movement that brought African American culture into national awareness

Sacco and Vanzetti Trial

Case that showed bias against immigrants in the U.S. legal system

Cotton Club and Apollo Theatre

Two major theaters of the Harlem Renaissance

Red Scare

Fear of communism after the Bolshevik Revolution

Organized Crime

Unintended consequence of Prohibition

Great Migration

Movement of African Americans from the South to the North and West

Harlem Renaissance

Associated with Langston Hughes

Leisure Time

Main reason sports became more popular in the 1920s

Dawes Plan

U.S. plan that loaned money to Germany so it could pay war debts