1920s Flashcards
Debunkers
Writers of the lost generation
Farewell to arms
Work of the disenchanted, lost generation that was dissapointed in the war and culture
The man nobody knows
Marking fucking . Jesus.
Harry Emerson fosdick
Wrote abundant religion
Proponent of liberal Protestantism
Liberal Protestantism
Modernist religion
Forces on developing self instead of persistent prayer
Religion taking second seat
Billy Sunday
Religious revivalist through the rradio
Pro proabition
Fundamentalists
Rural areas. Strict and literal interpretation of bible
Blamed monernests for decline in morals
Harlem poets
Langston Hughes, Claude McKay
Jazz
Preformed for intergraded sometimes
audiences
Louis Armstrong
Edward hopper
Painter explored the loneliness of urban life
Blacks in 20s
Great migration brought them north. Discrimination in housing and jobs, developed Harlem in NYC
Compulsory school laws
Doubles high school graduation
Farm problems
Fucked over. Were ok during war with artificial pricing,
They borrowed during war and now in debt
High production from tech increased debt with surplus and falling prices
Government policy in peroid
Pro big business
Fordney-mccumber tariff act
Hardings tariff raise
Paired with reduction of income tax
Eugene debs
Socialist throwback. Procured a decent turnout in election 1920
Teapot dome scandal
Hardings corruption on par with ulysses grant.
Fall and Daugherty accept bribe from oil company
Coolidge policy
Hands off passive
Republican congress
Business booming farmers/ unions struggle
Kkk
Fueled by birth of a nation film
Against blacks and foreigners and pretty much any minority
Support soon Crucial for local elections
Kellogg-Briand pact
Treaty between powers anti war
But provided no means of enforcement
“Fiction of isolationism”
Five power treaty
Limiting navel size but not Japanese
