Roaring Twenties Flashcards
election of 1920
In the presidential election, Republican Senator Warren G. Harding from Ohio defeated Democratic Governor James M. Cox of Ohio. Harding won a landslide victory, taking every state outside the South and dominating the popular vote
Warren Harding
Winner of 1920 eletcion
Albert Fall
Sectary under Harding
Calvin Coolidge
30th President
Henry Ford
founder of ford motor company
Flappers
generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts (just at the knee was short for that time period), bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.
American Birth Control League
organization that advocated for the legalization of contraception in the United States and promoted women’s reproductive rights and health
The Great Migration
movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West
Harlem Renaissance
a renewal and flourishing of Black literary and musical culture during the years after World War I in the Harlem section of New York City.
KKK
racist whites in robes
18th Amendment
“manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors
21st Amendment
reversed 18 amendment