Let's Jazz it up a little
1920s Module
16th Amendment
The right of the government to tax income.
Civil Service Reform, 17th Amendment, 1913
People who are in government positions cannot give government jobs to people who they are friend with. The jobs have to be obtained based on merit, which means a person's education and ability to do the job provided, successfully.
18th Amendment
Prohibition of Alcohol
19th Amendment
Women can vote
Social Darwinism
The concept that only the strong survive. That if a person wants to be rich they need to
Scopes Monkey Trial
Trial that decided whether it was okay or not to teach evolution in school.
Eugenics
The concept that certain people have better genes than others and those genetic lines should be continued.
Usually used in conjunction with some form of racist agenda.
Great Migration
Rural to Urban
Many African Americans traveled from the deep south to the north to escape racism and find jobs in factories.
Harlem Renaissance
This was an explosion of culture through music, art, dress, and dance. Women wore flapper dresses and everyone danced to Jazz music. The art was generally centered around the African American culture and their struggle and since of pride for their community.
Henry Ford
Created the assembly line for the automobile and made his vehicles more affordable and his cars became the cars of the middle class.
Marcus Garvey
He was a Jamaican-born Black nationalist and leader of the Pan-Africanism movement, which sought to unify and connect people of African descent worldwide.
Charles A. Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. At the age of 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize for making a nonstop flight from New York City to Paris.
Warren Harding's Return to Normalcy
This was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign slogan for the election of 1920. It evoked a return to the way of life before World War I, the First Red Scare, and the Spanish flu pandemic.
Teapot Dome Scandal
also called Oil Reserves Scandal or Elk Hills Scandal, in the early 1920s surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert Fall. After U.S. Pres. Warren Harding transferred supervision of the naval oil-reserve lands from the navy to the Department of the Interior in 1921, Fall secretly granted Harry Sinclair's Mammoth Oil Company exclusive rights to the Teapot Dome (Wyoming) reserves (April 7, 1922). He granted similar rights to Edward Doheny of Pan American Petroleum Company for the Elk Hills and Buena Vista Hills reserves in California (1921–22).
When the affair became known, Congress directed President Harding to cancel the leases; the Supreme Court declared the leases fraudulent and ruled illegal Harding’s transfer of authority to Fall. Although the president himself was not implicated in the transactions that had followed the transfer, the revelations of his associates’ misconduct took a severe toll on his health; disillusioned and exhausted, he died before the full extent of the wrongdoing had been determined.
Jazz Music
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime
Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley is the name given to a collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
Flapper Girls
Flappers were a generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.
Speakeasies
A speakeasy, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, is an illicit establishment that sells alcoholic beverages. Such establishments came into prominence in the United States during the Prohibition era.
KKK
US organization that employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda.
1st Red Scare
The First Red Scare was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of far-left extremism, including but not limited to Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events; real events included the Russian 1917 October Revolution and anarchist bombings.