The Roaring Twenties
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 election of 1920 | Harding vs Cox |
| Harding | wins election of 1920? |
| Harding | "We need to return to a time not of heroism but of healing, not nostrums but normalcy." |
| Harding | "Less government in business and more business in government |
| Washington naval arms conference | treaty to stop naval stockpiling and make a 5:5:3 ratio (UK US JP) |
| Japan | looks to aircraft after naval arms conference |
| Charles Forbes | accused of stealing veterans' benefits |
| Albert Fall | leased government owned oil reserves to Big Business. He then received "loans" from the companies. |
| Harding | spared the worst of dealing with the scandals because he dies in presidency |
| Calvin Coolidge | takes place of Harding |
| Calvin Coolidge | wins election of 1924 |
| Coolidge's 1924 campaign slogan | "Keep Cool with Coolidge |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | 15 countries, including the US, outlaw war except in cases of self defense |
| Election of 1928 | Herbert Hoover vs Al Smith |
| prohibition | main issue of the election of 1928 |
| hoover | dry |
| smith | wet |
| prohibition | Volstead Act - 18th Amendment |
| UMW | strike in 1919 and get a 27% raise via presidential commission |
| Bolshevik Revolution | strikes and mail bombs made many believe that a ________ was coming |
| NY 5 | ___ tried to expel ___ socialists that were openly elected |
| Sacco and Venzetti | charged with robbery and murder of the guard, evidence isn't there but Red Scare sways proceedings. Both are executed |
| Eight Men Out | distracts the US from the Red Scare |
| William Simmons | Revives the KKK |
| Indiana scandal | rocks the KKK and takes the moral high ground they were claiming |
| John Scopes | accused of teaching evolution |
| Clarence Darrow | defends scopes |
| William Jennings Bryan | serves as the prosecutor in the Scopes trial |
| Interpretation | Bryan admits to ______ of the bible which turns the case around in evolution's favor |
| Bryan | dies a few days after the Scopes trial from a heart attack |
| electricity | What led to appliances |
| cars | status symbol |
| Kansas City | first shopping center |
| credit cards | led to people spending money that they didn't have |
| WWI | broadened women's rights |
| divorce | _____ rate doubles by 1930 |
| Flapper | Maleish body, small breasts, high waists, bob haircut, crash diet, in cities, alcohol, jazz, and smoking |
| Gibson Girl | Ample hips, bust, bottom, s-figure, and curled hair worn up |
| Margaret Sanger | "Women should be allowed to control their own bodies |
| Margaret Sanger | Crusaded for reproductive rights and made info on birth control available to all women (jailed for her efforts) |
| NBC | first radio network |
| The Jazz Singer | first "talkie" (non silent movie) |
| 1930 | by ____ weekly movie attendance was 80 million |
| Steamboat Willie | Slightly scandalous, Mickey Mouse film |
| Ruth | Babe ____ (Sports) |
| Dempsey | Jack _____ (Sports) |
| Horsemen | The Four _____ (Sports) |
| Ederle | Gertrude _____ (Sports) |
| Alfred Stieglitz | created the 291 gallery |
| Alfred Stieglitz | married Georgia O'Keeffe |
| Georgia O'Keeffe | married Alfred Stieglitz |
| Alfred Stieglitz | photographer |
| Alfred Stieglitz | credited with the construction of the photograph to make it an art form |
| European Influences | Cubism (Picasso) and Fauvism (Matisse) |
| Georgia O'Keeffe | painted close-up views near abstraction that were controversially scandalous |
| Demuth | "Each color almost regains the fun it must have felt within itself on forming the first rainbow" (About O'Keeffe) |
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