The Roaring 20s

A period of rapid economic growth and social change

  • “The Red Scare”

  • Palmer Raids

  • Sacco and Vanzetti

    Case

  • Ku Klux Klan

  • Warren G. Harding

    “return to normalcy”

  • Teapot Dome Scandal

  • Calvin Coolidge

  • Herbert Hoover

  • Henry Ford

  • Glenn Curtiss

  • Assembly line

  • Buying on credit

  • Speculation

  • Eighteenth

    Amendment

  • Twenty-first Amendment

  • The Scopes Monkey Trial

  • Immigration Acts

  • Eugenics Movement

  • Flappers

  • Tin Pan Alley

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Great Migration

  • Harlem Renaissance

  • Langston Hughes

  • Marcus Garvey

  • Charles Lindbergh

  • The Great Depression

  • Overproduction

  • Buying on margin

  • Interest

  • Black Tuesday

  • Dorothea Lange

  • Dust Bowl

  • John Steinbeck

  • Mexican Repatriation Act

  • “Rugged

  • individualism”

  • “Hoovervilles”

  • New Deal

  • ‘fireside chats”

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • Eleanor Roosevelt

  • Frances Perkins

  • Three R’sRelief Legislation – 4

  • Programs

  • Recovery Measures- 3 measures

  • Federal Deposit Insurance Cooperation

  • Tennessee Valley Authority

  • Securities and Exchange Commission

  • Wagner Act

  • Social Security Act

  • Schechter Poultry v. U.S.

  • Roosevelt’s Court Packing Scheme

  • “The Red Scare”

    • Intense anti-communist hysteria in the US

    • fueled by fears of a Bolshevik revolution and the spread of communism

  • Palmer Raids

    • raids led by Attoney General A. Mitchell Palmer

    • targeting suspected radical leftists and anarchists

    • During Red Scare

  • Sacco and Vanzetti Case

    • Two Italian immigrants were convicted of robbery and murder in a highly controversial trial.

    • reflects anti-immigrant sentiment and prejudice

  • Warren G. Harding “returning to normalcy”

    • campaign slogan

    • emphasizing a return to pre-World War 1 domestic life and policies

  • Calvin Coolidge

    • 30th president

    • known for pro-business policies and laissez-faire approach to government

  • Glenn Curtiss

    • Aviaton Pioneer

    • founder of Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company

    • contributed to the development of aircraft.

  • The Scopes Monkey Trial

    • trial testing the legality of teaching evolution in public schools, reflecting the clash between fundamentalism and modernism

  • Flappers

    • Young women who embrace new fashions, behaviors, and attitudes, challenging traditional gender roles

  • Tin Pan Alley

    • A district in New York City known for music publishing and the production of popular sheet music

  • Harlem Renaissance

    • cultural and artistic movement celebrating African American culture, particularly in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City

  • Langston Hughes

    • Influential poet and leader of Harlem Renaissance

  • Marcus Garvey

    • Jamaican politician leader

    • proponent of black nationalism

    • advocated for the return of African Americans to Africa

  • Charles Lindbergh

    • Aviator who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic in 1927