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stressed the role of sexual repression in mental illness which created a huge sex taboo in young men and women
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after being a popular outfielder in baseball's National League during the 1880s, became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century.
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Huge business tycoon that invented the assembly line for cars, eventually being able to mass produce cars that American's wanted so desperately
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American administrator and politician. He served as United States Secretary of the Interior for 13 years, from 1933 to 1946, the longest tenure of anyone to hold the office
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American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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Was an American realist painter and print-maker. While he is best known for his oil paintings
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Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature
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was a Jamaican-born political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator. He was first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
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"one of the twentieth century's major poets" was also an essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic.
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Was a Jamaican writer and poet, who was a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance
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Frederick Lewis Allen was the editor of Harper's Magazine and also notable as an American historian of the first half of the twentieth century. His specialty was writing about recent and popular history.
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Grant DeVolson Wood was an American painter best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest, particularly American Gothic,
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With this invention people were able to listen to music in their homes making pop. culture more accessible and spread the Jazz age at the time
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Was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra and super influential in the music industry and is even renowned today
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Was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist
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This greatly increased the efficiency in factories as they would use workers more officially with this method and flourished the pro-business in 1920s
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Was invented to regulate business at a limited degree (after this there was really no pure laisze-fairee was really supported)
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Created by Henry Ford and was able to mass produce cars which spread like wildfire in America economy and increased consumerism
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Banned the sale of alcohol after Temperance movement
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Warren Harding won this Republican candidacy and stressed for more pro-business affairs in government with Republican filled Congress
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In this time frame electricity became widespread in America that eventually help led to increase consumerism as they had to get more oil, coal, etc and led to machines like refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, and washing machines.
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Since Republican were the only ones in power this time, we saw a lot of pro-business laws because of this and many farmers suffered from it
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influenced the design of buildings, furniture, jewelry, fashion, cars, movie theatres, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as radios and vacuum cleaners.
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was an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s and inspired many African Americans into artist
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Consumer Culture focuses on the spending of the customers money on material goods to attain a lifestyle in a capitalist economy which thrived in the 1920s
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A scandal about the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior
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Two Italian immigrants that were anarchist were executed and was very controversial case
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First ever quota laws were implemented in the US in 1921 and 1924 which shows the rise in nativsm in the US
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raised American tariffs on many imported goods to protect factories and farms and the US Congress displayed a pro-business attitude in passing the tariff and in promoting foreign trade by providing huge loans to Europe.
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Calvin won again with majority of people at the time being republican
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Controversy over whether evolution should be taught and teacher was arrested for it (but was let go off a technicality) Shows division over this
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Basically caused the great depression and was helped caused by the increase in consumerism in the 1920s
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Caused by the Great Depression we saw a great increase in the slums areas and was due to the high number of unemployment
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implemented protectionist trade policies sponsored and increased the tariffs for over 20k goods
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Refers to the land in the US that farmers lived on that had a lot of dust storms which meant that the crops were not the best
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Repealed the 18th amendment after FDR became president
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was designed to remove the excessively long period of time a defeated president or member of Congress would continue to serve after his or her failed bid for reelection
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FDRs personal assistants that would help him make educated answer to any question he may have. Usually made up of the very brightest
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Banks were offered a holiday where the gov. would examine the banks and reopen them if they were deemed "sound"
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Independent federal agency insuring deposits in U.S. banks and thrifts in the event of bank failures and tries to maintain public confidence and encourage stability in the financial system
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was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men
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federally owned corporation tasked to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression.
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goal was to eliminate "cut-throat competition" by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices.
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holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws, proposing securities rules, and regulating the securities industry, the nation's stock and options exchanges, and other activities and organizations
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goals of this organization are to improve housing standards and conditions, provide an adequate home financing system through insurance of mortgage loans, and to stabilize the mortgage market after GD
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budgeted several billion dollars to be spent on the construction of public works as a means of providing employment, stabilizing purchasing power, improving public welfare
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Employed millions of people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.
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guarantees basic rights of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining for better terms and conditions at work, and take collective action including strike if necessary
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established a system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped and is used even in today's society
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Brought to light what was going on with poor dust bowl farmers and opened it up to the public
