Unit 4 - Roaring 20's

Warren G. Harding

President during 1921-1923. Caused the teapot dome scandal.

Teapot Dome Scandal (1921)

Transferred oil reserves privately to businesses

Calvin Coolidge

President during 1923-1929. Cut business taxes, limited farmer aid, and cut their spending.

Stocks

Generated quick wealth via the stock market.

Washington Naval Conference (1921-1922)

Limited the number of naval arms each country could have.

Kellog Brand Pact (1928)

Pledged that countries will not use war to deal with issues

Dawes act (1924)

Provided for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and extended the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians.

19th Ammendment

Allowed women to vote

Native American Citizen Act (1924)

Granted citizenship to natives born in the U.S

Merriam Report (1926)

Stressed the cultural values of WASPs and demonized native americans.

Native American Boarding Schools

Assimilated Native Americans into WASP culture

Secularism

The separation of church and state.

Christian Religious Fundamentalism

Stressed a literal interpretation of the Bible

Creationism

The belief that the universe and living organisms originate from specific acts of divine creation, as in the biblical account, rather than by natural processes such as evolution.

Scopes Monkey Trial (1925)

Banned the teaching of evolution in schools

Return of the KKK

Demographic changed from African Americans to total white supremacy

National Origins Act (1924)

1. Set a number for immigrants from east/south Europe

2. Banned Arabs and Asians

3. Restricted African immigration

First Red Scare

A period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of far-left movements, including Bolshevism, communism and anarchism.

Palmer Raids (1919-1920)

Arrested and tried 4,000 alleged communists

Sacco & Vanzetti

Italian anarchists accused of murder

18th ammendment

Banned the sale and production of alcohol in the U.S

Bootleggers

People who produced alcohol illegally.

Speakeasies

Illegal taverns

Henry Ford

Creation of the first automobile.

Technological Innovations

Cars, Motorcycles, Radio, board games, and air travel.

Women’s roles

1. Working in jobs

2. Started attending college

3. Openly drinking/smoking

Flappers

Scandalous style of dress disapproved by conservative women.

Comstock Law (1878)

Outlawed lewd/suggestive things or contraceptives.

American Birth Control League (1921)

Gave contraceptives and abortion supplies to those who needed it.

Birth Control Clinic Research Bureau (1923)

Collected statistics about birth control effects.

Eugenics

Looking for certain traits in offspring

A-Z test (1920)

First pregnancy test where scientists inject pee into a rat.

The Lost Generations

Artists traumatized by WWI that criticized middle class materialism.

Harlem Renissance

Flowered black culture through art, music, and literature.

The New Negro

A more outspoken advocacy of dignity and a refusal to submit quietly to the practices and laws of Jim Crow racial segregation.

NAACP

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans

Marcus Garvey

Creator of Black Nationalism

prosperity

being successful or thriving

nativism

policy favoring natives instead of immigrants

immigration

travel to another country to live

stock market

sharing and selling of stock

flapper

WWI woman who showed freedom

Racism

prejudice against a race

Lynch

put to death by hanging

Jazz

music developed by ragtime & blues

eugenics

study improving people genetic means

prohibition

banned alcohol since it was "ruining society"

communism

economic goods are distributed equally

supply tide

benifits are given to big business to give to people

tariffs

money & duties given to imported good

City-dwellers

A person living in a city.

Great Migration (1910- 1920)

Many African Americans migrated to industrial cities in the North & West, filling jobs in a labor shortage that had occurred because of the First World War 1 & Jim Crow restrictions in the south.

Modernism

A global movement in society and culture that from the early decades of the twentieth century sought a new alignment with the experience and values of modern industrial life.

Traditionalism

The adherence to traditional beliefs or practices.