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*Also known as the national prohibition act
*Prohibited Americans to sell, buy, or have any possesion of any type of liquor in the 1920's |
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United Negro Improvement Association
1919 |
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| Marcus Garvey's self-help organization that proposed leading blacks to Africa |
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A. Mitchell Palmer/ Red Scare
1919-1920 |
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*Believed communism was "eating its way into homes of the American workmen"
*The movement spawned by fear of Bolshevik revolution that resulted in the arrest and deportion of many political radicast |
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Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
1921 |
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| Sacco and Vanzetti were suspected anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery. After trials and a series of appeals, the two italian immigrants were executed |
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| Woman who dared to wear less clothing and more revealing of their bodies but didn't go too far because they were afraid |
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National Origins Act
1924 |
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| A discriminatory immigration law that restricted the immigration of Southers and Eastern Europeans; practically excluded Asians from entry into the U.S. |
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| Legal battle over teaching evolution that pittied modern science over Fundamental religion |
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*A wide audience was exposed to jazz
*White as well as black audiences became interested in African-American lit., culture, and music.
*The concept of "New Negro" underlay African-American cultural works
*Poets and novelists wrote about black pride and protest |
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Used to describe the people of the 1920s who rejected American post World War I values
(F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemmingway, John Dos Passos) |
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Was the first man to ever fly across the Atlantic Ocean (nonstop) by himself
Became a hero to people around the world
Represented Americans "freedom" |
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