The "Roaring" Twenties

the decade of the 1920's which got this nickname because of the times presperity and excitement

term used by Warren G. Harding which meant, he didn't want the old order but a regular steady order of things. He wanted normal procedure, the natural way, without excess.

a period of general fear of communists

Scandal during the Harding administration involving the granting of oil drilling rights on government land in return for money

29th president of the US; Republican; "Return to Normalcy" (life as it had been before WWI-peace, isolation); presidency was marred by scandal

elected Vice President and succeeded as 30th President of the United States when Harding died in 1923 (1872-1933)

31st President of the United States

The belief that all individuals, or nearly all individuals, can succeed on their own and that government help for people should be minimal.

1863-1947. American businessman, founder of Ford Motor Company, father of modern assembly lines, and inventor credited with 161 patents.

the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment

Worked for women's suffrage as President of the Women's Temperance Union

prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages

Passed February, 1933 to repeal the 18th Amendment (Prohibition). Congress legalized light beer. Took effect December, 1933. Based on recommendation of the Wickersham Commission that Prohibition had lead to a vast increase in crime.

1925, the trial that pitted the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution against teaching Bible creationism

Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.

Set of laws starting in 1921 that set qoutas for the number of immigrants let in.

the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating)

a young woman in the 1920s who flaunted her unconventional conduct and dress

a city district (originally in New York) where composers and publishers of popular music do business

movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920.

a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished

This man was well known for making the Harlem Renaissance famous because of his poems.

Many poor urban blacks turned to him. He was head of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and he urged black economic cooperation and founded a chain of UNIA grocery stores and other business

United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1902-1974)