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| 359325233 | Invention of the Electric motor | Post WWI it stimulated the economy | |
| 359325234 | Pro-business | The government, which had worked closely with business leaders as part of the war effort grew to be more of this. | |
| 359325235 | Federal Trade Commission | This was supposed to be a government regulatory agency, however it assisted businesses more than regulated them. | |
| 359325236 | Warren Harding | President during this era, surrounded himself with corrupt advisers, however was considered an "honest man" himself. Conservative on economic issues, Harding proved more liberal than his predecessor Wilson on issues of civil liberties. He supported anti-lynching laws and tried to help farmers who weren't benefiting as much from the new economy by providing money for farmers' loans. He died in office and Coolidge, his VP, took over. | |
| 359325237 | Calvin Coolidge | President that took over when Harding died. He re-ran for presidency and made it about the economy with his slogan "Coolidge prosperity." Labor unions decreased in popularity. | |
| 359325238 | Herbert Hoover | President during this era, after Coolidge. He also won easily by advocating for a better economy. | |
| 359325239 | Teapot Dome Scandal | Oil companies bribed the secretary of the interior in order to drill on public lands. | |
| 359325240 | Automobile | Invented during this time period. Harrison Ford perfected the assembly line and mass production, which lowered the price of cars. This made the automobiles not only exclusive to the extremely wealthy. Demanded development of roads and traffic regulations and rules. | |
| 359325241 | Suburbs | Created and grew during this era as a result of increased use of the automobile. | |
| 359325242 | Radio | This revolutionized the culture | |
| 359325243 | Advertising industry | grew up during this decade to hype all these new products. they were very effective in that they cajoled people to buy things they didn't really need. | |
| 359325244 | Woman and jobs | Single-income houses couldn't keep up with consumerism so a higher number of woman joined the work force-- up to 15%. | |
| 359325245 | the flapper | A symbol for women in the roaring 20s. In this era, with the right to vote and coming out of the household during world war I, women started smoking/drinking in public, and dancing/wearing above the knee dresses. | |
| 359325246 | Movies | Grew tremendously popular in this decade, reflecting back at the nation its idealized self-image; on movie screens, young, independent minded, gorgeous heroes and heroines defied all odds to succeed in romance and strike it rich at the same time. | |
| 359325247 | Baseball | Became popular in this era, Babe Ruth idolized by millions. | |
| 359325248 | Harlem Renaissance | In the largest black neighborhood in New York City, theaters, cultural clubs, and newspapers sprang up. | |
| 359325249 | Literature | America gained international prominence through F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and playwright Eugene O'Neill. | |
| 359325250 | Lost generation | Some of the prestigious American writers recorded and wrote about their alienation form the modern world after moving to Europe, so they were known as this. | |
| 359325251 | Poets form the Harlem Renaissance | Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Zora Neale Hurston. | |
| 359325252 | Ku Klux Klan | Grew to 5 million members and widened it's targets. They targeted blacks, Jews, urbanites, and anyone whose behavior deviated form the Klan's narrowly defined code of acceptable christian behavior. | |
| 359325253 | Jazz Age | Louis Armstrong. It became emblematic of the era because it features improvisation and free-spiritedness. | |
| 359325254 | Sacco and Vanzetti | Arrested on charges of murder, the evidence was inconclusive but they were executed anyway. They were Italian immigrant anarchists. This encouraged immigration restrictions. | |
| 359325255 | Emergency Quota Act of 1924 | Set immigration quotas based on national origins and discriminated against the "new immigrants" who came from southern and eastern Europe. These limits were set to reduce "foreign influence" on the country. | |
| 359325256 | John Thomas Scopes | broke the 1925 Tennessee law forbidding teachers to teach the theory of evolution. | |
| 359325257 | Inherit the Wind | a 1955 play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee depicting the Scopes Monkey Trial. | |
| 359325258 | Clarence Darrow | Defended Scopes in the monkey trial | |
| 359325259 | William Jennings Bryan | On the side of the prosecution for the monkey trial. | |
| 359325260 | Prohibition | Banned alcoholic beverages. (18th amendment) | |
| 359325261 | 21th Amendment | Repealed 18th (banning of alcoholic beverages) in 1933. | |
| 359325262 | "gangster era" | open warfare between gangs. | |
| 359325263 | October 1929 | The bottom fell out of the stock market. | |
| 359325264 | Some causes of the depression | Manufacturers and farmers had been overproducing and people lost their jobs as their employers went bankrupt and lost their homes when they couldn't keep up with mortgage payments. Produce prices dropped 50%. | |
| 359325265 | Dust Bowl | The Midwest was afflicted with an awful drought. | |
| 359325266 | Farmers' Holiday Association | These farmers threatened to walk out if the prices didn't rise. | |
| 359325267 | Rugged individualism | Hoover believed in this so he opposed any relief efforts. Later he campaigned for some federal works projects (Hoover Dam) to create jobs and initiated a few farm assistance programs. | |
| 359325268 | Hawley-Smoot Tariff | Hoping that tariffs would help American business, Hoover implemented this, but it worsened. | |
| 359325269 | Bonus Expeditionary Force | They were the impoverished war veterans that lived under Hoover's presidency. They went to Washington to lobby for a bill to give them an early payment of benefits. When the bill was defeated, many refused to leave. Douglas McArthur was ordered to lead an army to expel them. THey did it with excessive force & tear gas. 100 people died including 2 babies, who suffocated-- this ensured Hoover not being re-elected. | |
| 359325270 | 1932 election | Franklin D. Roosevelt beat Hoover easily. |
