Studied by 4 peopleTeapot Dome Scandal
Major scandal in the administration of President Warren Harding
Red Scare
After World War I, the fear of the spread of communism in the United States
Palmer Raids
as part of the Red Scare, in these 1919 to 1920 raids thousands of Americans not born in the United States were arrested, and hundreds were sent back to their countries of origin
National Origins Act (1924)
Anti-immigration federal legislation that took the number of immigrants from each country in 1890 and stated that immigration from those countries could now be no more than 2 percent of that
Scopes Trial (1925)
Trial of teacher John Scopes of Dayton, Tennessee, for the teaching of evolution
Jazz Age
Image of the 1920s that emphasized the more relaxed social attitudes of the decade
Flapper
"New woman" of the 1920s, who was pictured as having bobbed hair, a shorter skirt, makeup, a cigarette in her hand, and somewhat liberated sexual attitudes
"Lost Generation"
Group of post-World War I writers who in their works expressed deep dissatisfaction with mainstream American culture
Harlem Renaissance
1920s black literary and cultural movement that produced many works depicting the role of blacks in contemporary American society
1917
Race riots in East St. Louis, Missouri
1918
Armistice ending World War I
1919
Race riots in Chicago
1920
Warren Harding elected president
1921
Immigration Quota Law passed
1922
Fordney-McCumber Tariff enacted
1923
Teapot Dome scandal
1924
Election of Calvin Coolidge
1925
Publication of The Man Nobody Knows by Bruce Barton
1926
Publication of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
1927
The Jazz Singer, first movie with sound, released
1928
Election of Herbert Hoover
1929
Nearly 30 million Americans have cars
1919
Major strikes in Seattle and Boston
1919
Palmer Raids
1920
First broadcast of radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh
1920
Publication of Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
1920
Arrest of Sacco and Vanzetti
1920
Prohibition takes effect
1921
Disarmament conference held
1922
Publication of Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
1923
Death of Harding; Calvin Coolidge becomes president
1923
Duke Ellington first performs in New York City
1924
Immigration Quota Law enacted
1924
Ku Klux Klan reaches highest membership in history
1924
Women governors elected in Wyoming and Texas
1925
Publication of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1925
Scopes Trial held in Dayton, Tennessee
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes New York to Paris flight
1927
Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
1927
15 millionth car produced by Ford Motor Company
1927
$1.5 billion spent on advertising in United States
1927
Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs
1929
Stock market crash
scientific management
American industrialists adopted Frederick W. Taylor's "____________." Production efficiencies reduced consumer goods prices.
installment plan
A marketing innovation that allowed consumers to buy goods over 36 to 48 monthly payments, made luxuries affordable.
Republican
Even the Supreme Court was headed by a _________, Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who had served as president from 1909–1913.
New Era
The Republicans of the “________” believed in limited government and supported free enterprise.
national radio system
Herbert Hoover's creative statesmanship as secretary of commerce under Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge helped organize a _________ and encouraged industries to standardize parts and procedures.
social experiments
Wilsonian idealism and Progressivism's "__________" were repudiated by Harding's victory. The economy was Harding's first priority.
Charles Dawes
Harding named ___________ as the Bureau of the Budget's first director to help Congress better manage government revenues and expenditures.
Charles Evans Hughes
For his cabinet, Harding wanted the "best minds." Secretary of state was former Supreme Court Justice and presidential candidate ____________.
1921 Washington Conference
Washington hosted military and diplomatic representatives from Great Britain, France, Japan, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, and China.
Five Power Agreement
The ________________ between the US, UK, Japan, France, and Italy set ratios for their navies. The invited powers recognized Chinese sovereignty and supported the Open Door in China.
1924 Dawes Plan
American diplomacy's _____________ was another success. German reparations were reduced by Charles Dawes.
Andrew Mellon
Harding appointed _________ secretary of the treasury.
1922 Fordney-McCumber Tariff
High tariffs were also Mellon's goal. Manufacturing tariffs increased with the ________________.
Espionage and Sedition Act
During World War I, he freed Eugene Debs and other political dissidents imprisoned by the Wilson administration for ____________ violations.
Charles Forbes
He misappropriated $250 million as Veterans' Bureau director.
Attorney General Harry Daugherty
A hung jury acquitted ______________, Harding's former campaign manager, of taking bribes from bootleggers and others seeking government favors.
Teapot Dome Scandal
The ___________ was the Harding administration's most notorious misdeed.
Albert Fall
A respected New Mexico senator, became Harding's secretary of the interior. In exchange for bribes, he leased the federal oil reserve in Teapot Dome, Wyoming, and other oil lands to private companies.
August 2, 1923
Harding’s Death
Calvin Coolidge
Harding was succeeded by Vice President ____________. The new president had simple tastes and was from New England.
Revenue Act of 1926
This Act, which reduced taxes, was passed by Coolidge and Mellon. The president was willing to take unpopular stands for his beliefs.
American individualism
Hoover championed "_____________" and the Republican economic record during the 1928 election.
Al Smith
In 1928, He was nominated by Northerners. A product of Tammany Hall, embodied America's bustling metropolis.
Marcus Garvey
He founded Universal Negro Improvement Association
Ku Klux Klan
By 1925, the _________ had over 5 million members, inspired by The Birth of a Nation and modern marketing.
Emergency Quota Act of 1921
This limited immigration to 3% of a nationality's 1910 US population. Quotas reduced Southern and Eastern European immigration.
National Origins Act
This halted mass immigration to the US for over 40 years.
Alcohol
This was the devil's "instrument," and cities were his playground.
Bathtub gin
It was bad liquor sold in speakeasies. Bootleggers supplied better liquor to meet demand.
Monkey Trial
The "___________" Scopes Trial garnered national attention. Scopes' famous defense attorney was Clarence Darrow.
New Era business culture
It encouraged wealth and showed that anyone could become a millionaire with smarts and hard work. The media inflated a Florida real estate bubble that burst, causing many investors to lose money.
the devil's music
Like rock and roll 30 years later, jazz became more popular as traditionalists called it "_________."
National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
In 1926, __________ founded the first radio network. By the end of the decade, listeners nationwide had a variety of news, entertainment, and sports programming.
The Man Nobody Knows (1925)
Here Barton imagined Jesus Christ as a dynamic businessman whose leadership and promotion skills allowed Him to build the most successful organization in history.
Lost Generation
Many of these writers were shaped by World War I's disorientation.
Sinclair Lewis
He became famous and wealthy by criticizing middle America's materialism and cultural philistinism.
Main Street (1920)
Babbit (1922)
Works by Lewis that satirized small-town life and inhabitants.
Winesburg, Ohio (1919)
Work by Sherwood Anderson that depicted desperate people in a remote Midwestern community.
The Great Gatsby (1925)
Work by F. Scott Fitzgerald, he brilliantly depicted the spiritual emptiness of upper-class New Yorkers living a life of decadent self-indulgence.
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
ritten by Ernest Hemingway, he depicted expatriate writers and artists traveling between France and Spain.
Farewell to Arms (1929)
In this book, a character rejects the war's false idealism and brutal hypocrisy and tries to escape with the woman he loves.
Mencken
A brilliant writer with a taste for invective, called ordinary Americans the "ignorant mob" and the "booboisie."
Harlem Renaissance
___________ artists looked to African American folk art and Negro spirituals for authentic black expression.
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
The Harlem Renaissance poet ____________ and novelist ________ were prominent.
Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington
Musicians like __________ reached mainstream audiences through club performances and recordings.
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