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Henry Ford
Famous for the assembly line, Ford is responsible for America's mass production in the 1920s. -
Ku Klux Klan
A white supremecy hate group against people of color; theu were very prominent in the 1920s. -
Guglielmo Marconi
The invention of his radio boomed in the 1920s; Marconi was a successful italian engineer and pioneer born in 1874. -
Marcus Garvey
Took on many hats as an orater, journalist, entrepreneur, and importantly as a political leader. Known for his role in black nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements. -
Babe Ruth Jr.
American baseball player who played in the MLB from 1914 to 1935. -
Jack Dempsey
A cultural icon in the 1920s, Dempsey was an American national boxer. -
Al Capone
Attained his fame in the prohibition period, Capone was an American gangster thought to be behind the St. Valentine's Massacre. -
Fundamentalists
A movement that manifested in many various denominations, which started among conservative presbyterian theologians at Princeton Theologica; seminary during the 1920s. -
Universal Negro Improvement Association
Founded by Marcus Garvey created to unite all of Africa and its diaspora into ¨one grand hierarchy¨. -
18th Amendment
This amendment banned the trtansportation, sale, and production of alcohol, although the consumption was not illegal. -
Radicals are on the Run
Aftermath of the war where the American Leagion joined the anti-bolshevic chorus attacking political leftists. -
Red Scare
A fear of communists, anarchists, and socialists in America after the war in the 1920s. This was very similar to the witch trials in certain ways. -
Bureau of the Budget
Created as a result of the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 to establish the federal budget. -
Washington Conference
Held in 1921, a military confrence called by President harding held in Washington. -
Unemployment Relief Act
Provided grants for municipal public works projects. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
Where bribery was given to oil companies; as a result Albert Fall, Secretary of the Interior, was convicted for accepting bribes and was emprisoned. -
Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act
Rasied tariffs on imported goods to protect factories and farms. -
Adkins vs Children's Hospital
The court overturned the minimum wage law which affected women seeing that it infringed on liberty and contract. -
The American Mercury
Magazine published which provided new theories and ideas. -
Immigration act of 1924
Federal law that limited immigration from any country. -
National Housing Act
Made credit more available for lenders for home repairs and construction to make better housing available to low income families. -
Dawes Plan
Plan created by Dawes to solve the WW1 reperations problem which would cause trouble to international affairs. -
¨The Man Knows Nobody¨
By Bruce Barton who portrayed Christ as a religious prophet as well as salesperson spurring the advertising age of the 1920s. -
The Great Gatsby
A nocel by F Scott Fitzgerald following the life of a young man's endeavors in New York City in the summer of 1922. -
Scopes Trial
A trial involving a high school teacher charged with teaching kids the evolutionary theory. -
An American Tragedy
Novel written by Theodore Dreiser, this is about a man who is in love with a wealthy women but is threatened when his pregnant girlfriend gives him an ultimatum. -
Langston Hughes
He published The Weary Blues, which is still well known today. Hughes was a part of the jazz age as well as the Harlem Renaissance -
¨The Sun Also Rises¨
A modernist novel written by Ernest Hemingway, about a British cand American group who travel from Paris to Pampalona to watch the running of the bulls. -
The Jazz Singer
A film that portrayed Bobby Gordan as an African American; this caused a lot of racial tension because it was a blackface film. -
¨The Sound and the Fury¨
Novel written by William Faulkner, which focused on the idea of conciousness, this novel became instantly successful. -
The Agricultural Marketing Act
Established the Federal Farm Board from the Federal Farm Loan Board with a fund of half a blillion dollars. -
Blue Blazes Whiskey
A big operation of a whiskey making industry, in Catocin Mountain, that was raided 9n '29. -
Black Tuesday
A time when panicked sellers sold about 16 million shares in the New York Stock Exchange, known to be the start of the Great Depression. -
The Dust Bowl
Black clouds that darkened the clouds of the Great Plains that were already desolated by the Great Depression. -
Hawley Smoot Tariff
Raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods -
Hoover: Reconstruction Finance Corporation
A government lending bank designed to provide indirect relief by assisting insurance companies, banks, agricultural organizations, railroads, and state and local government. -
Hoover: Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction
Outlawed antiunion contracts and forbade the federal courts to issue inhiunctions to restrain strikes, boycotts, and peacefull picketing. -
Emergency Banking Act
Act passed by congress as an attempt to stabilize the banking system. -
Beer and Wine Revenue Act
A tax on alcoholic beverages that would raise federal revenue. -
Federal Emergency Relief administration
This gave loans to the states to operate relief programs. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
Created by Congressional charter to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley to an area greatly affected by the Great Depression. -
Glass Steagall Act
Limited commercial bank securities, activities, and affiliations within commercial banks and securities firms. -
National Recovery Administration
Created to deminish competition by bringing industry, labor and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices. -
CIvil Wirks Administration
Program establishe during the Great Depression to create jobs, but these jobs were only seasonal. -
Wagner Act
Made the federal government the arbiter of employer-employee relations through the creation of the national labor relations board and recognized for the first time the right of workers to organize and bargain collectively with their employers. -
Resettlement Administration
Deal by the U.S. federal agency that relocated families affected by the dust bowl. -
The Unemployed
A painting done by Langley Howard portraying the Great Depressions affect on society. -
Dust Bowl: The Grapes of Wrath
Novel by John Steinbeck that told a story of a family facing the harsh envirenment and being forced to migrate to California because of the farms that were droughted in Oklahoma. -
Reorganization Act
GAve the President the authority to hire additional staff and the ability to rearrange the executive branch for two year subjects to legislative veto. -
The Grapes of Wrath
By John Steinbeck. this novel is about a families struggles caused by the dust bowl
