Chapter 22 Flashcards
The 29th president
Signed a legislation to restore a high tariff and remove wartime controls over industry
Most corrupt presidency
Warren G. Harding
Hardings vice president who went into office after Harding died
Wanted to remove Hardings history of scandal but continued with his economic ideas
Calvin Coolidge
The passage of the 19th amendment that granted women the right to vote
The Equal Rights Amendment
Presidential election of Al Smith vs Herbert Hoover
Catholic immigrant with connections to Tammany Hall
Anti-prohibition politics
Election had an obvious loser
The Defeat of Al Smith
Increase in technology led to faster made consumer products like convenience foods, clothing and home appliances
Department stores became a thing
Automobile industry
Consumerism
Automobiles, film, and radio
Popular Culture
Nicknamed America’s Sweetheart
People would go to the theaters just to see her
She helped popularize the flapper
Mary Pickford
Music popularized by a African American community in New Orleans
Reached the rest of the world through radio
Jazz
Made Baseball America’s pastime
More people could recognize him than they could recognize President Harding
Babe Ruth
Women with short hair, short skirts, makeup, cigarettes and a carefree spirit
Gave women a new way to represent femininity
The Flapper
Women began working outside the home and could now be things like teachers and nurses
Women in the workplace
Women’s attitudes towards sex changed as many young women wanted to rebel against society and have premarital sex
Sexual Attitudes
Black southerners went North in hopes that they would no longer experience racial violence
The Great Migration
The biggest Negro city in the world
Problems with crime, health, housing and unemployment
Brought together a bunch of black people who had pride for their race and culture
The Harlem Renaissance
Book written combining a bunch of writing from black people rather than just about them countering stereotypes and forms of racial prejudice
The New Negro
