Terms & Names: Chapter 24

Warren G. Harding: President after Wilson,
Farmer-Labor Parties: combinatin of the two groups being that they had relatively common interests
“consumer durables:” those must-have items advertised heavily by capitalist big companies
“perishables:” fruits and vegetables made more available because of refrigeration and transportation
Robert LaFollette: supporter of progressivism, didn’t like WWI, League of nations, railroad trusts
Middletown: series of studies in late twenties on affects of economy on normanl Americans
Doris Fleishmann: successful capitalist woman, able to pursue success because of sexual liberation
Flappers: because of the sexual liberation experienced during the 20s, women dressed more scantily, and behaved much more like men, even taking on more masculine aesthetics
Welfare Capitalism: extremely wealthy capitalists would support the lower classes ie Rockefeller, Carnegie
Ohio Gang: a band of politicians and industry leaders associated with Harding
Yellow Dog Contracts: agreement by laboureres not to participate in unions
Albert Fall: involved with teapot dome scandal
Teapot Dome Scandall: bribary scandal in which Fall bought a section of land and sold it for a bunch of money or something
Calvin Coolidge: president during prosperous twenties
Herbert Hoover: US president, extremely experienced in world scene, lots of prior work with govnt and such
Assosiationalism: idea of joining together to maintain freedom
Railway Labor Act: idea was to replace strikes with mediation, and talks
Washington Conference on Limitaiton of Armaments: Wilson’s attempt following WWI to get everybody to disarm, epic fail sale
John Dewey: recognized as one of the international founders of pragmatism
Dawes Plan: attempt to collect war reparations debt from Germany
Charles Evans Hughes: chief justice under Hoover, outspoken
McNary-Haugen Bill: intended to support US farmers by limiting sales of US agriculture in US, storing or exporting it ?
Kellogg-Briand Pact: agreement between france and US that the two countries would not go to war against eachother
Al Capone: Italian gangster in new york, profited off gang crime and underworld
Ku Klux Klan: racial superioritists who went about tyring to lynch people and wearing white hoods and such-not
Fundamentalism: idea that the bible had to be interpreted megau uber literally
Johnson Reid Act: 1924 immigration act limiting the amounts of certain nationalities which could enter the US
Birth of a Nation: silent film touting racism and supporting KKK and racial superiority thoughts
Liberal Protestants: those who believed in a looser interpretation of the Bible
William Jennings-Bryan: Wilson’s secretary of state, pro-British
Scopes Trial: trial attempting to find the legality of teaching Darwinian evolution in schools
H.L. Mencken: One of the trial laywers during the Scopes case
Clarence Darrow: one of the trial lawyers during the Scopes case
Laissez Faire: economics free from government intervention, based on the idea that competition was good for the marked, essentially capitalism
Harlem Renaissance: revival of Black culture based on Jazz renaissance, largely reliant on white patrons
Al Smith: black American Jazz musician
Louis Armstrong: black famous Jazz musician, part of the lost generation
New Negro: educated, interested in creating own nation, as opposed to being deferential and what not
Jazz: African spiritual/ roots music mixed with European classical music
Duke Ellington: black American jazz musician
Langston Hughes: black American poet
Sinclair Lewis: black American fiction author
Corridos: Mexican ballad of romance
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald): member of lost generation, about a man’s demise because of his desire to fit in with the mega consumer society of the 20s
Ernest Hemingway: author, member of lost generation
William Faulkner: author, member of lost generation
The Agrarians: those who advocated for the farmers in the 20s
Walter Lippman: award-winning writer, journalist, and political commentator. ...Read more