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Modernism
They took a historical and critical view of certain passages in the bible and believed they could accept Darwin's theory of evolution without abandoning their religious faith. -
Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth was a famous baseball player who was on the Yankees. He was one of the first superstar. He also set many records that would take to break. -
18th Amendment
It was the banning of manufacture,sale,and transportation of alcoholic beverages. -
Claude McKay
Was a poet who was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance movement. If we must die is a famous poem written him -
Weak Farm Economy
The prosperity of 1920s never reached farmers,who had suffered from overproduction,high debt, and low prices since the end of WW1. -
Radio
The radio was a new medium of mass communication and entertainment. Famous organization include National Broadcasting and Columbia Broad casting system were famous broadcasters, -
Hollywood
The movie industry center in Hollywood became big business in the 1920. Going to the movie became a national habit in the U. -
Jack Dempsey
He was an american heavyweight boxing champion and was praise by many by the peak of professional fighting, He held his title from 1919 to 1926. -
Langston Hughes
He was an African American poet who described the rich culture of African American life using rhythms influenced by jazz. He also wrote about the major impact on the Harlem Renaissance -
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem section of New York City became famous for it's concentration of talented actors, artist, musicals and writers. -
Speakeasies
speakeasies where was bootleg liquor was sold. City police and judges were paid to look the other way from speakeasies. -
Jazz
Jazz music was brought north by African American musicians and it became a symbol of the new and modern culture of the city -
Lost Generation
There were a group of writers in 1920 who shared the belief they were lost in a greedy,materialistic world that lacked moral values. -
Fundamentalism
They had Protestant preacher in rural areas condemned the modernists and taught that every word in the bible must be accepted as literally true. -
President Warren Harding
He was person who thought the U.S wanted to return to normalcy. He had little presidential ability. He appointed several capable to his cabinet such as Charles Evans Hughes. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
Sectary of the Interior Albert B.Fall got profit from Secret leasing to the private oil companies of government oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming -
Ohio Gang
There were a group of politicians who achieved high office during Warren G.Harding and they betrayed his trust through scandals. -
Quota Laws
These were two laws that limted immigration by setting quotas base on nationality. First act limited immigration to 3% of foreign-born personas from a given nation counted in 1910. The second quota of 2 percent based on the Census of 1890. -
Case of Sacco and Vanzetti
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanazetti were two Italian immigrants who had been convicted of committing robbery and murder. Liberals protested that the two men are innocent and they were sentenced to death because they were immigrants.They were executed in 1927. -
Dawes Plan
The Dawes Plan provided short-term economic benefits to the German economy and softened the burden of war reparations. -
Scopes Trial
John Scopes was being trailed because teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school which the Butler act made illegal. This trail feature two well know orators William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow as opponents. John Scopes end up losing and was fined. -
Butler Act
Due to the theory of evolution being a controversial concept at the time. The anti-evolutionist mange to pass a effort called the Butler Act that made teaching evolution a misdemeanor. -
Countee Cullen
Countee Cullen was important figure during Harlem Renaissance with his poetry. One of his most famous poems are Yet Do I Marvel that helped define what it meant to black in american after the first world war. -
F.Scott Fitzgerald
He wrote the book called the The Great Gatsby which many consider to be a masterpiece is about Nick Caraway was the Gatsby's neighbor -
Black Thursday and Black Tuesday
There was unprecedented volume of selling on Wall Street and stock prices plunged. In order to fight off stabilizing prices a group of bankers bought millions dollars of stock. It work for one day but on Tuesday it went down. -
Federal Farm Board
The board was authorized to help farmers stabilize price by temporarily holding surplus grain and cotton in storage -
Agricultural Marketing Act
This act provided for a form of relief for farmers by creating a Federal Farm Board which was designed to stabilize farm crop prices. -
Great Depression
It was a worldwide economic downturn. It was longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized western world sparking change in economic theory. -
Dust Bowl
It was the name given to the drought-stricken southern plans region of the U.S. which suffered from severe dust storms during a dry period in the 1930. -
Cause of the Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was caused by several economic and agricultural factors,including federal land polices, change in regional weather,farm economics,and other cultural factors -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
It was a tariff that raised import duties to protect american business and farmers,adding considerable strain to the Great Depression and discourage foreign trade -
Debt Moratorium
The Dawes Plan for collecting war debts could no longer continue. Hoover proposed moratorium(suspension) on the payment of international debts. -
Reconstruction Fiance Corporation
This agency became the government leading bank and was designed to provide indirect relief by assisting insurance companies,banks,agricultural organizations, and railroad -
Glass-Steal Act
It established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and included banking reforms,some of which were designed to control speculation reaction to deal with the Stock market crash. -
National Industrial Recovery act
A new deal legislation that focused on the employment of the unemployed and the regulation of unfair business ethics. The NIRA pumped cash into economy to stimulate the job markers. -
Liberal Critics
Socialists and extreme liberals in the democratic party criticized the New deal for doing too much for business and too little for the unemployed and the working poor. -
Demagogues
Many critics played upon the American people's desperate need for immediate solutions to their problems. They used the radio to reach a mass audience and proposed simplistic schemes for ending "evil conspiracies". -
Works Progress Administration
It first year of operation under Hopkins, it employed 3.4 million men and women who formerly been on relief rolls of the state. It paid double the relief rate but less than normal. -
National Youth Administration
It provided part-time jobs to help young people stay in high school and college or until they could get a job with a private employer. -
Resttlement Administration
Place under direction of Brain trust,Rexford Tugwell, the Resettlement administration provided loans to sharecroppers,tenants, and small farmers -
National Labor Relations(Wagner)
This act guaranteed a worker right to join a union and a union's right to bargain collectively. -
Rural Electrification Administration
This new agency provided loans for electrical cooperatives to supply power in rural arenas -
Federal Taxes
significantly increased the tax on the incomes of the wealthy few. It also increased the tax on large gifts from parent to child and on capital gain -
Social Security Act
It created an federal insurance program based upon the automatic collection of payments from employees and employers throughout people's working careers. -
Agricultural Adjustment act
It restricted crop production to reduce crop surplus, goal was to reduce surplus to raise value of crops. -
The Election of 1936
The economy was slowly getting better but it was unstable. Because of the New Deal programs and active style of leadership. Roosevelt was popular among workers and small farmers however business dislike him -
Alf Landon
He challenged Roosevelt as the republican nominee. He criticized democrats for spending too much money but in general accepted most of the new deal legislation -
Pablo Picasso
He was a famous Spanish painter,sculptor,print maker and much more his most famous painting was the Guernica and the painting had great antiwar statements. -
Ernest Hemingway
He wrote several books with one of his most popular books being For Whom the Bell Tolls. For Whom the Bell Tolls is a story about Robert Jordan a young american during the Spanish american war. -
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington was one of the leading figures of jazz in the 20th century. He played large impact on the evolution of jazz. -
Louis Armstrong
He played using a triumphant and he laid the foundation for modern jazz. One of his more famous songs Lie Vie En Rose came out on 1947.
