| A | B |
|---|
| Palmer raids | no search warrants and no warrants for arrest |
| Warren G. Harding | elected as president to bring US back to “normalcy” |
| Henry Ford | used and perfected the assembly line |
| Andrew W. Mellon | Treasury Secretary |
| Herbert Hoover | Secretary of Commerce |
| Teapot Dome”/ Elk Hill Scandal | Charles Forbes, convicted of stealing Vets’ Bureau funds, evaded prison by fleeing abroad. Attorney General Daugherty accused of influence peddling. Interior Secretary Fall went to jail for leasing government oil to two oilmen in return for a $400,000 bribe and got a $100,000 fine |
| Calvin Coolidge | VP, took presidential oath after |
| Washington Naval Arms Conference | 3 nations, together w/ Italy & France, pledged to reduce their battleship tonnage by specified amounts and to halt all battleship construction for ten years (“holiday”). U.S. and Japan agreed to respect each other’s territorial holdings in Pacific. Significance was it represent an early arms-control effort. |
| Kellog-Briand Pact | renounced aggression and calling for the outlawing of war. It lacked enforcement mechanism and did nothing to prevent WWII |
| Charles Lindbergh | young pilot who flew solo across Atlantic in his small biplane, The Spirit of St. Louis |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | said, “None of their Victorian mothers had any idea how casually their daughters were accustomed to be kissed.” |
| flappers | sophisticated, pleasure-mad young woman – fashionable young woman whose rubber boots were open and flapping. |
| Harlem Renaissance | a literary movement |
| Langston Hughes | drew upon the oral traditions of transplanted southern blacks in The Weary Blues. |
| Sinclair Lewis | took a sharply critical view of postwar America |
| Henry L. Mencken | launched The American Mercury magazine, the bible of the decade’s alienated intellectuals. He ridiculed small-town America, Protestant fundamentalism, middle-class “Booboisie,” and all politicians. |
| Ernest Hemingway “lost generation”, | was wounded while serving in northern Italy as a youthful Red cross volunteer. 1921, he became an expatriate in Paris. His Farewell to Arms loosely based on his own experiences, depicts the war’s futility and politician’s empty rhetoric |
| Edward Hopper | artist who portrayed faded towns and lonely cities of the present |
| Georgia O’Keeffe | moved to NYC in 1918 when photographer Alfred Stieglitz mounted a show of her work. Her paintings evoked both the congestion and allure of the city. |
| National Origins Act of 1924 | a revision of the immigration law, restricted annual immigration from any foreign country to 2 percent of the total number of persons of that “national origin” in the U.S. in 1890. It set a quota – number you have to fill and when it’s filled that’s it – it also restricted immigration from Europe and southeastern Europe. Coolidge says, “America must be kept American.” |
| Quota system | represented a strong counterattack by native-born Protestant America against the immigrant cities |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | April 15, 1920, robbers shot and killed paymaster and guard of a shoe factory in South Braintree, MA, and stole two cash boxes. Police charged two Italian immigrants, -------- and -----------, and jury found them guilty in 1921; they were electrocuted on August 23, 1927. There were not much evidence, but convicted anyway because of who they are and where they were from. |
| Scopes trial | conflict between fundamental religion and modern science |
| KKK | appealed to everybody who was frightened with all the change in the 20s and giving them a sense of empowerment. |
| Marcus Garvey | Jamaican immigrant who came to U.S. and founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association. He was pushing “Back to Africa” movement and promoting economic solidarity. He did not get along with W.E.B. Dubois. There was some tension between the black communities based on their origin. Got in trouble with mail fraud; he was convicted and got deported back to Jamaica. |
| Volstead Act | underfunded and weakly enforced, especially in anti-prohibition areas. Would-be drinkers grew bolder as enforcement faltered. For rebellious young people, alcohol’s illegality increased its appeal. |
