Scientific Management

• improving economy trough actual studies and analyzing

Fordism

• Use of assembly lines where you would hire unskilled workers for repetitive tasks

United Negro Improvement Association

• Founded by Marcus Garvey, made to help African Americans get their own land back

• Led to African American neighborhoods and the Harlem Renaissance

Bolshevik Revolution

• A revolution in Russia which was watched by America

Red Scare

• Feared immigrants were communists, bombing

Criminal Syndicalism Laws

• You can’t even speak of being violent

American Plan

Immigration Act of 1924

• Used to lessen immigration to the States, 2% of the population of that nationality in the US was allowed to immigrate

Indian Citizenship Act of 1924

• Any Indian’s born in America would be citizens but couldn’t vote

Eighteenth Amendment

• Prohibition, led to much controversy and arguments since it was hated by men

• They were outraged by this law because they couldn’t live without alcohol, but it allowed them to lower alcoholism rates along with death

Volstead Act

• Illegal to produce, sell, or consume alcohol

Racketeers

• People who were paid for fraud or bootlegging

Bible Belt

• NC to OKC where Protestant Fundamentalism thrived

Scopes Trial

• A science teacher was arrested for teaching about evolution which was illegal

Fundamentalism

• Belief in a holy book such as the Bible or Quran

Modernism

• Change old views through revitalization and experimenting

Lost Generation

• People who became adults during WW1

Harlem Renaissance

• A group of African American artists who came together to form their own art movement

Bureau of the Budget

• President could control the spending habits of the nation and had to submit a budget to congress each year

Adkins v. Children’s Hospital

• Led to the change in the bill saying that women had shorter works days and minimum wage because they were now equal to the men after being given the ability to vote

Nine-Power Treaty

• All nations would respect China

Kellogg-Briand Act

Fordney-McCumber Tariff Law

• Raised tariffs on imported goods that led to Europe raising their own to compete

Teapot Dome Scandal

• The Interior secretary gave petroleum to private oil companies without any bidding, which was illegal

McNary-Haugen Bill

• The government must buy surplus crops to stop them from becoming cheap

Dawes Plan

• America privately loaned money to Germany, who payed back Great Britain, who payed the Allies who payed the US

Agricultural Marketing Act

Hewley-Smoot Tariff

Black Tuesday

• A day in which the stock market completely crashed

Hoovervilles

• Small towns made by homeless people during Hoover’s presidency

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

• Allotted 500 billion to the government to sell in bonds to the people

Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act

• Prevented government from objecting to nonviolent strikes and labor unions

Bonus Expeditionary Force

• The veterans formed it to protest for bonuses after serving in the war

• Hoover sent the army to stop them leading to his public image dropping

A. Mitchell Palmer

• Fighting Quaker who rounded up 6k people while trying to drive out radicals

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

• killed guards during a shoe factory robbing

Horace Kallen

• Pluralism, thought that immigrants had the right to practice their religion in the states

Randolph Bourne

• Thought the US should embrace its diversity

Al Capone

• Criminal who committed many crimes including bootlegging alcohol, who was eventually arrested for tax evasion for 11 years

John T. Scopes

• The science teacher arrested for teaching about evolution

Fredrick W. Taylor

• father of Scientific Management

Henry Ford

• Creator of the car who first used a fast assembly line to make automobiles accessible for lower class families

Charles A. Lindbergh

• Aviator who completed the first flight from NYC - Paris and won 25k

• Son was kidnapped and murdered, still an unsolved case

Margaret Sanger

• Opened the first birth control clinic, and made it known

Sigmund Freud

• Granted and preached for sexual liberation

H. L. Mencken

• He was famous for covering the Scopes Trial

F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Famous musician from the Harlem Renaissance

Ernest Hemingway

• Famous author from the Harlem Renaissance

T. S. Eliot

• A famous poet

William Faulkner

• Author who wrote Absalom, Absalom!

Langston Hughes

• Famous poet and activist from the Harlem Renaissance

Warren G. Harding

• President after Wilson who died in the 4th year of the term, was taken over by Coolidge

• Most famous for Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act

Albert B. Fall

• Involved in the Teapot Dome Scandal

Calvin Coolidge

• VP for Harding who took over after his death

• Most famous for his high tariffs

John W. Davis

• Ran against Coolidge and Smith from the Democrats and lost

Alfred E. (Al) Smith

• Ran from the progressivists against Coolidge and Davis, but lost

Herbert Hoover

• President after Coolidge who was famous before presidency for his efforts to save America from starvation during WW1