Langston Hughes
The Great Migration
Duke Ellington
The Harlem Renaissance
Why Important?
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(New Negro Movement)
The Harlem
Renaissance
An African-American cultural movement in the 1920s in which many AfricanAmerican authors, artists, and musicians created works that mainly focused on
racial themes.
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Why Important?
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A famous jazz musician who made a name for himself beginning in the 1920s. He
was a pianist, composer, and big band leader.
Who was he?
Example?
Duke Ellington
The Great Migration
What was it?
An African-American poet and playwright who became well known during the
Harlem Renaissance. Much of his literature deals with the theme of race.
Langston Hughes
The mass movement of African-Americans from the Jim Crow South to northern
cities such as New York and Chicago. This process began during World War I and
accelerated through the twenties.
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Teapot Dome Scandal
Calvin Coolidge
Prohibition
The Palmer Raids
Republican President of the U.S. between 1923 and 1929 who cut government
spending, kept taxes low, and avoided government intervention in the economy.
Why Important?
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What was it?
Teapot Dome
Scandal
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A series of FBI raids directed by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer that targeted
communists, anarchists, and other extremists during the Red Scare of the 1920s.
The Palmer Raids
Why Important?
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Why Important?
The ban on alcohol between 1919 and 1933 that was enacted by the 18
Amendment to the Constitution.
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Prohibition
Calvin Coolidge
Who was he?
A scandal during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. In it, the
Secretary of Interior accepted bribes in exchange for allowing Mammoth Oil
Company to drill on the government-owned Teapot Dome reserve.
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Why Important?
The Red Scare
The Sacco & Vanzetti Trial
The Scopes Trial
Buying on Margin
What was it?
Why Important?
What was it?
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Why Important?
The Red Scare
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Speculating on stocks using borrowed money that was obtained by using other stocks
as collateral. This was a risky practice that caused economic instability to spread from
the market crash to the banking system in 1929.
What is it?
Buying on Margin
The fear of communism, anarchism and other extremist ideologies during the
period during and immediately after World War I
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The highly publicized trial of John Scopes, a teacher, who illegally taught the
theory of evolution in Tennessee. The trial is an example of the conflict between
modernism and Christian Fundamentalism in the 1920s.
What is it?
The Scopes Trial
The Sacco & Vanzetti
Trial
The famous trial of Ferdinando Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti who were convicted of murder on
flimsy evidence and executed in 1927. The trial is widely considered an example of both nativism and
an episode in the Red Scare because the men were both Italian immigrants and suspected anarchists.
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The Dust Bowl
The Agricultural Adjustment
Act (AAA)
The Grapes of Wrath
Herbert Hoover
A New Deal program that was designed to promote the recovery of crop prices
by paying farmers to produced fewer crops.
Significance?
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The Dust Bowl
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President of the United States between 1929 and 1933. Initially popular, he also lost
his re-election bid to Franklin D. Roosevelt in a landslide. His popularity suffered as a
result of his inability to effectively handle the Great Depression.
What is it?
Herbert Hoover
What is it?
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A novel published by John Steinbeck in 1939 that told the story of poor refugees
fleeing the Dust Bowl. It put a more human face on the plight of poor farmers.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Agricultural
Adjustment Act
(AAA)
What is it?
A crisis caused by a prolonged drought in the Mid-West during the 1930s. It led to the
destruction of farm land and resulted in a wave of refugees feeling the region.
What is it?
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The Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation (FDIC)
The New Deal
The National Labor
Relations Act
The Civilian Conservation Corps
Significance?
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A New Deal relief & recovery program under which up to one young man per family
could be paid by the federal government to work on conservation projects.
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(Wagner Act)
The Civilian
Conservation Corps
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What is it?
A New Deal reform that protected workers’ rights to form and join labor unions
and collectively bargain (negotiate as a group).
The National Labor
Relations Act
The New Deal
What is it?
A federal insurance program created as a New Deal reform, it now insures bank
deposits up to $500,000 in the event that a bank fails.
The Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation
(FDIC)
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s domestic program that focused on Relief,
Recovery, and Reform during the Great Depression.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Social Security Act
The Works Progress
Administration (WPA)
Schecter Poultry Corporation
v. United States
What is it?
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Schecter Poultry
Corporation v. U.S.
A 1935the Supreme Court decision striking down the National Industrial Recovery Act because it
granted too much power to the executive branch. FDR responded by attempting to “pack” the federal
courts with his supporters because he worried the courts would gut the New Weal. He failed.
What is it?
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What is it?
Franklin D.
Roosevelt (FDR)
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President of the United States between 1933 and 1945 who led the U.S. through
much of the Great Depression and World War II. His New Deal agenda greatly
expanded the size and scope of the federal government.
Significance?
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A New Deal recovery measure by which the federal government directly hired all
sorts of workers (both manual laborers and intellectuals, artists, writers, etc.) to
complete public works projects.
The Works Progress
Administration
The Social Security
Act
A New Deal program designed to provide relief, recovery and reform, it allowed
people age 65 or older to retire with a government pension. As the “baby
boomer” generation ages, paying for this program becomes more difficult.
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