Hmmmm…..

I might want to look at this for some help on

my review…but hey…that’s just me 
Harlem Renaissance
 Harlem is in New York City
 Expressed African American culture in music,
art, and literature
 Langston Hughes was a famous African
American poet during this time
Jazz and the Harlem
Renaissance
 Jazz began in New Orleans
 Moved to New York’s Harlem
area
 Jazz clubs became very
popular

Radio
 Commercial stations
emerged in early 20’s.
 Businesses sponsored
programs.
 Radio became an
inexpensive (cheap) form
of family entertainment.
Women in the 1920’s
The Flapper
a new style for women
 Stylish, adventurous,
worked outside the
home.
 Short skirts and short
hair.
 Drove cars, participated
in sports
 Politically active, voted
 Independent, and
willing to compete with
men
 Henry Ford
 created the assembly line,
and Model “A” and “T” cars
were affordable
 Mass produced & marketed
Model T
 Founded Ford Motor
Company
 Mass production (the
assembly line) made it
possible for him to cut
prices of cars AND raise
workers wages!!!!
Glenn Curtis Charles Lindberg
 Father of Naval  First person to fly
Aviation & American SOLO across the
Aircraft Industry Atlantic Ocean on
 Inventor of the May 20, 1927
hydroaeroplane or  Plane: Spirit of St
seaplane in 1911 Louis
Clarence Darrow Marcus Garvey
 Defended John Scopes  Journalist who promoted
in Scopes Monkey Trial African nationalism--
(teaching evolution) encouraged all blacks to return
to Africa
 Created “Black Star Line” for
people to invest in the move
back to Africa
 Was convicted of mail fraud,
pardoned by Pres. Coolidge &
deported from US
William Jennings Bryan
 Ran for President in 1896,
1900, 1908 and lost
 Secretary of State under
Pres. Wilson but resigned
before WWI
 Made “Cross of Gold”
speech in 1896
 Prosecuted John Scopes in
Scopes Monkey Trial &
denounced teaching
evolution
 Red Scare
1919-1921 and 1947-1957
 In the U.S. there were
fears of a communist
revolution like the one in
Russia in 1917.

 The American Socialist

Party was created by
Eugene Debs.

 Several Americans were anarchists

accused (often, unfairly) of
promoting communism
What fears does this cartoon express?
 Election of 1920
President Warren G. Harding
 Encouraged a “Return to
Normalcy” (life before WW1)
 Pro business (wanted
industries with assembly
lines)
 Goals: Reduce national debt
and promote economic growth

 Poor and Middle Class

Americans had low taxes.
Harding records a speech. One of (only richest 2% were paying
the first presidents to use modern taxes during this time)
communications devices.

 Lassiez-Faire approach
 Immigration Nativism
 Influx of “new immigrants”  Native born Protestants
– “old immigrants” started thought they were better than
immigrating Catholics & Jews
to have nativist thoughts
 Led to massive increase of
new immigrants
KKK membership
 “New immigrants” were not
welcomed like “old
immigrants”

 National Origins Act (1924):  American Indian Citizenship

limited the number of Act (1924): made ALL Native
immigrants allowed into US Americans citizens of US -
from other countries
Eugenics Social Darwinism
 Perfection of the human  Society’s survival of the fittest
race through selective  Attempted to explain why
breeding some groups of people have
 Originally intended to more power than others &
“better the white race” rationalize “white man’s
and was promoted by burden”
the KKK (insert eye roll
here)