The 1920s
United States History
Politics of the 1920s
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Warren G. Harding
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Ohio Gang
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Calvin Coolidge
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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Andrew Mellon
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Supply-Side Economics
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Herbert Hoover
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Isolationism
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Dawes Plan
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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Washington Conference
New Industrial America
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Henry Ford
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Mass Advertising
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Mass Production
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Managerial System
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Consumer Economy
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Welfare Capitalism
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Charles Lindbergh
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Open Shop
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Radio Industry
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Consumer Credit
Cultural Values
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Sacco-Vanzetti
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Fundamentalism
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New Ku Klux Klan
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Evolution v. Creationism
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Emergency Quota Act
(1921)
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Scopes Trial
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National Origins Act
(1924)
Prohibition
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Speakeasies
Roles of Women
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Bootleggers
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Cultural Movements
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Modern Art
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Influence of Europe
Songwriters
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Poets and Writers
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Varying Styles
“Disillusionment w/ war”
“Society’s Superficiality”
“Ignorance of classes”
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Tin Pan Alley
Radio Broadcasts
Role of Mass Media
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Unification through shared
ideas/attitudes
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Sports
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New Technologies
Talkies
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The Jazz Singer (1927)
African American Culture
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Impact of Great Migration
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Harlem Renaissance
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Harlem Renaissance
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Writers
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Claude McKay (Proud
Defiance/Hatred of Racism)
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
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Painting
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Historical Roots
Shared Identity
Culture
Jazz & Blues
Dixieland blues and ragtime
Rhythms & Beats
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Cotton Club
Theater
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Apollo Theater
“Shuffle Along” (1921)
African American Politics
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Voting Impact
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NAACP
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Oscar DePriest (Chicago)
Battled against segregation
Marcus Garvey’s “Black Nationalism”
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UNIA: Universal Negro Improvement Association
Black culture and tradition, separation from white society
Middle-class and Intellectuals distanced selves from Garvey
Alienated Harlem Renaissance figures as “weak-kneed” to
white society