He encouraged people to take pride in their race
Marcus Garvey
A time of fear of communism
The red scare
She was well known for her detailed paintings of flowers and of the southwest
Georgia O’keeffe
A period of African American artistic accomplishment
Harlem Renaissance
Girls that cut their hair short and wore makeup and short dresses, openly challenging traditional ideas of how women were supposed to behave
Flappers
He was a very talented musician that played the trumpet
Louis Armstrong
This system used conveyer belts to move parts and partly assembled cars from one group of workers to another
Moving assembly line
This act limited the number of immigrants allowed into the U.S.
The Emergency Quota act
Ford achieved his goal by building a sturdy and reliable car nicknamed “The Tin Lizzie”
Model T
The creator of Ford automotives
Henry Ford
The eighteenth amendment which outlawed the manufacture sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages went into affect in 1920
Prohibition
People who leave their home country to live elsewhere
Expatriates
Involved secretary of the interior Albert Fall who accepted the large sums of money and valuable gifts from private oil companies
Teapot dome scandal
In may 1925, a Dayton Tennessee, high school science teacher named John t. Scopes was put on trial for teaching evolution
Scopes trial
During WWI large numbers of African Americans began leaving the south to take jobs in northern factories
The Great Migration
In 1928 the United States and 14 other nations signed the Kellogg Briand pact an agreement that outlawed war
Kellogg briand pact
Anarchists are people opposed to organized government
Anarchy
A motion picture w/ sound
Talkie
The transportation or importation into any state territory or possession of United States to deliver or use therein of intoxicating liquors in violation of laws therefore is hereby prohibited
21 amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied the right to vote by the account of sex.
19 amendment
A African American poet
Langston Hughes
He was our president from 1924-1928
President Coolidge
Republican nominee for 1928 election
Herbert Hoover
Writers who criticized American society in the 1920’s
Lost generation