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Met Henry Ford at the Detroit Foundry, and worked for him as a patternmaker leading to the Model T

• Handsome Ohio Republican presidential candidate, promised “normalcy”

• “Less government in business and more

  business in government.”

• Wanted to cut taxes for the rich

President Harding invited several major powers to the Washington Naval Conference

• Urged that no more warships be built for ten years

• Suggested that the five major naval powers scrap their weapons

Renounced war as a national policy but had no enforcement

Raised taxes on some U.S. imports to 60% which protected U.S. businesses, but made it impossible for Britain and France to sell enough

American banker that negotiated loans in Germany, which came to be known as the Dawes Plan

American investors loaned Germany $2.5 billion to pay back Britain and France with annual payments on a fixed scale.

Secretary of commerce that did a masterful job of handling food distribution and refugee problems during World War I.

One of the country’s wealthiest men, became secretary of the treasury and set about drastically cutting taxes and reducing the national debt.

The president’s poker-playing cronies, who would soon cause a great deal of embarrassment.

Head of the Veterans Bureau that was caught illegally selling government and hospital supplies to private companies

Head of the Office of Alien Property that was caught taking a bribe

Albert B. Fall managed to get the oil reserves transferred from the navy to the Interior Department then into two private oil companies for $400,000 in “loans, bonds, and cash.”

• Placed high tariffs on foreign imports

• Reduced income taxes

• Wages were rising, and so was productivity

Raised the output of labor productivity by 45%

Legendary road that provided a route for people trekking west from Chicago to California

The first underwater tunnel specifically for motor vehicles, opened in NYC and Jersey City

• 80% of all registered motor vehicles in the world were in the U.S

• 1 automobile for every five people

“It will take a hundred years to tell whether you helped us or hurt us, but you certainly didn’t leave us where you found us.”

Inaugurated the first transatlantic passenger flights

Lockheed Company’s single-engine plane

• Increased by 35%

• $522 to $705

Acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts

• Clarence B developed a new freezer

• Clarence S developed a new grocery store

Convinced readers that without mouthwash a person ran the risk of having halitosis—bad breath

• Average factory workers were producing 50% more

• National income grew from $64 billion to $87 billion

Enabled people to buy goods over an extended period, without having to put down much money at the time of purchase

Department store sales clerk in New York that persuaded his workers to join the Department Store Employees Union

An economic and political system based on single-party government ruled by a dictatorship 

Him and the Bolsheviks(the majority) established a new Communist state

70,000 radicals and some IWW members came together to form this group

People who opposed any form of government

Shoemaker accused of murder/robbery, but no proof showed that he shot his gun

Fish seller accused of murder/robbery. definitely shot his shit up

Donated proceeds from her poem “Justice Denied in Massachusetts” in Sacco and Vanzetti’s defense

• Destroyed saloons, opposed unions, and drove foreign-born people out of the country

• Reached 4.5 million members

• Grown to 600%

• 141,000 - 805,000 immigrants

• Established the maximum number of people who could enter the United States from each foreign

• Limited European immigration to 2%, or 150,000 ppl per year

• 1 million Canadians and 500,000 Mexicans crossed the border

Granted citizenship to about 125,000 native people, excluding natives born before 1924

• 300,000 workers walked off their jobs

• Striking workers were beaten by police, federal troops, and state militias

Employees who agreed to work during the strike

• Became Unionism’s new leader

• Called Union members out on strike for miners

• Miners received a 27% wage increase but not shorter workdays

82,000 African Americans, or less than 1% of their population held union memberships

Founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters to help African Americans

• Evangelist who preached against the evils of drinking

• Baseball player turned into preacher

Largely from the rural South and West, areas with large populations of native-born Protestants.

Church-affiliated group that led the drive to pass the Prohibition amendment

Considered drinking a sin, had helped push the measure through

Established a Prohibition Bureau in the Treasury Department but the agency was underfunded

• Involved patrolling 18,700 miles of coastline as well as inland borders

• 1,500 poorly paid federal agents and local police did the job

Underground hidden saloons and nightclubs that sold liquor illegally

A smuggler that hid liquor in their boots or legs

Repealed the 18th amendment

Used Hollywood showmanship to preach the Bible

Promised to defend any teacher who would challenge the anti-evolution law

• Young biology teacher that was arrested for teaching evolution

• ACLU hired Clarence Darrow to defend this teacher

• Was found guilty and fine $100

A fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools in American Society

• Advertised consulting and efficiency

• Created the washing machine

‘Wild young people”

Clipped their long hair into boyish bobs and died it jet black

Sarah Lawrence and Scripps college

• Opened the first birth control clinic in the United States

• Founded the American Birth Control League

• Attended Howard University to become a writer in NYC

• Her work celebrated the common person’s art form, simple

• 5.2 million of the 12 million African Americans, over 40%, lived in cities

• 25 urban race riots

Organization that tried to remove barriers for black employment

Urged African Americans to protest racial violence

W.E.B Dubois led a parade of 10,000 African Americans in NYC to protest racial violence

Poet, lawyer, and NAACP executive secretary led the organization to start 3 antilynching bills

Idea that all black people are one

Described Harlem as the capital of Black America

A novelist, poet, and Jamaican immigrant was a major figure in the movement with his verses that urged African Americans to resist prejudice

His book “Cone” was a mix of poems

His poems described the difficult life of working class African Americans

A black musical comedy popular in 1921 that spotlighted the talents of several black performers

Actress/singer that debuted on Broadway in the musical Africana

• The son of a one-time slave, became a major actor

• He supported the Soviet union and the Communist Party

• His performance in Shakespeare’s Othelle was acclaimed

His Creole Jazz Band traveled North to Chicago

Young talented trumpet player that joined the Creole Band and then Fletcher Headerson’s band

• A Jazz pianist and composer led his ten-piece orchestra at the Cotton Club

• “Mood Indigo” and “Sophisticated Lady”

Essay by Alain Locke predicted Duke’s success

Improvised jazz singing using sounds, not words

• A female blues singer

• The highest paid black artist

• “Saint Louis Blues”

Many jazz tunes were published as sheet music

Lived in Paris and wowed French audiences with her singing, dancing, and comedy

Sculptor that made many monuments like the Haitian Hera Toussaint and portrait of Booker T. Washington

Painted murals and illustrated books

His work was inspired by African American folklore

Used innovative techniques in his photographs

• 50 million Americans listened

• Tunney beat Dempsey after 10 rounds

• Fight of the century

Attendance rose from 1 million to 4 million

This cost $2.7 bill in the mid 1920s

• 600 local newspapers had shut down

• 230 newspapers had been swallowed up by huge national chains

Summarized the week’s news both foreign, and domestic

Chinese game with playing pieces that resemble dominoes

This dazzling tomb of an Egyptian Pharoh inspired Egyptian styled accessories

• Pilot that flew across the Atlantic

• A handsome, modest Minnesotan

• Wanted the $25,000 prized for the Atlantic prize

• Set in Le Bourget airport

• 33 hours long and 29 minutes

The first major movie sound, which followed a rebellious Jewish man

The first animated film with sound, released in 1928

His plays such as the Hairy Ape forced Americans to reflect upon modern isolation, confusion, and family conflict