Chapter 12 POLITICS OF THE ROARING TWENTIES & Chapter 13 THE ROARING LIFE OF THE 1920’S.
From Business Culture to Great Depression: The Twenties, 1920–1932
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Transcript of From Business Culture to Great Depression: The Twenties, 1920–1932
Chapter 20: From Business Culture to Great Depression:
The Twenties, 1920–1932
Jsrcc 01 PR HIS 122
Sacco-Vanzetti• Sacco-Vanzetti Case• well-known case in which two Italian-American Anarchists
were found guilty and executed for a crime in which there was very little evidence linking them to the particular crime
Enrico Caruso
• Great opera • Sometimes called the first modern celebrity
Charles Lindbergh
• 1927 • Made the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic
Equal Rights Amendment
• Proposed amendment to eliminate all legal distinctions “on account of sex”• Equal rights amendment =ERA• Section 1:
• Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state
• Section 2:• Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate
legislation, the provisions of this article
• Section 3:• `This amendment shall take effect two year after the date of
ratification
Albert Fall
• Notorious scandal involved Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall• Who accepted nearly $500,000 from private businessman to
whom he leas government oil
• Fall became the first cabinet member in history to be convicted of a felony
Washington Naval Arms Conference
• U.S. hosted the conference in 1922• Negotiated reductions in the navies of Britain, France,
Japan, Italy and United States
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
• Hoover signed with some reluctance in 1930• Made the economic situation worse• Raising higher taxes on imported goods• Inspired similar increases abroad• Reducing international trade
American Civil Liberties Union
• Organization founded during World War I to protest the suppression of freedom of expression in wartime; played a major role in court cases that achieved judicial recognition of Americans civil liberties.
Scopes Trial
• Trial of John Scopes, Tennessee teacher accused of violating state law prohibiting teaching of the theory of evolution; it became a nationally celebrated confrontation between religious fundamentalism and civil liberties.
Harlem Renaissance
• The term “New Negro” in art meant the rejection of established stereotypes and a search for black values to put in their place
Langston Hughes
• Poets• novelists
Claude McKay
• Home to Harlem 1928• McKay’s novels, had graphic sex and violence, actually
reinforced white prejudices about black life• Poem “if We Must die”
Herbert Hoover
• Great Engineer• Progressive republican• Ideological and political liabilities• Republican
Great Depression• Worst economic depression in American history; it was
spurred by the stock market crash of 1929 and lasted World War 2
Reconstruction Finance Corporation• Federal program established in 1932 under President
Hebert Hoover to loan money to banks and other institutions to help them avert bankruptcy ‘• loan money to failing banks, railroads, and other
businesses, and federal home loan bank systems’• Offered aid to home owners threatened with foreclosure
Alfred E. Smith• a democrat who ran against Herbery Hoover. First
Catholic to be nominated by a major party.
Bill Robinson• a tap dancer and actor with Shirley Temple. Also was
part of the WW1war.