24+The+Twenties

The Twenties
 * Welfare capitalism || Trickle down ||
 * "Pink Collar" jobs || Women's office work ||
 * A. Philip Randolph || was an African-American Civil Rights leader in the twentieth century and also founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, dedicated to African-American labor organizing. ||
 * Open Shop || Business proposed alternative to the "closed shop" ||
 * Parity || Prices equivalent to 1916 agricultural commodities ||
 * Mass consumption ||  ||
 * Mass circulation magazines ||  ||
 * Motion Picture Association ||  ||
 * National Broadcasting Company (NBC) || First major broadcasting network in the US. Formed in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America. ||
 * Companionate marriages || where both spouses believe in the equality of men and women and believe their roles are interchangeable. ||
 * Margaret Sanger || was a prominent American birth control activist and founder of the American Birth Control League. She was the leader of the movement to promote contraception, and was also a controversial figure. She witnessed her exhausted mother die after too many deaths, and thereafter became a strong proponent to birth control. ||
 * Emma Goldman || was a political activist who is mainly known for her support of anarchy and her developing major writings on anarchist political philosophy in the first half of the twentieth century. ||
 * Birth control ||  ||
 * Flappers || Flappers were 1920s "new" women who wore short skirts, listened to jazz music, made wild hairstyles, and generally rejected Victorian and conventional standards for women. They were seen as brash for wearing so much makeup, experimenting with sex, drinking, smoking, driving, and defying conventional standards and norms. ||
 * Dance halls ||  ||
 * Jitterbuggers || is a term for swing dancers during the 1920s. ||
 * League of Women Voters || successor of NAWSA ||
 * National Woman's Party || Alice Paul's party. ||
 * Sheppard‑Towner Act of 1921 || appropriated $1.2 million for rural prenatal and baby care centers staffed by public health offiails. ||
 * Youth culture || Jazz age young people ||
 * Charles Lindbergh || was famous for doing a solo, non-stop flight from New York to Paris. He rose to world fame thereafter and was widely celebrated. ||
 * The Lost Generation || referred to a group of American literary figures who then lived in Europe; first coined by Ernest Hemingway. ||
 * H. L. Mencken || was a famed American critic and journalist who was prominent in the early twentieth century. He is known for writing the American Language, as well as covering the Scopes monkey trial. ||
 * Sinclair Lewis || An American novelist, short-story writer, and playwrite. Was the first to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. ||
 * F. Scott Fitzgerald || An american novelist. Coined the term "Jazz Age" ||
 * John Dewey || An American philospher, psychologist, and educational reformer in the progressive movement. ||
 * Charles and Mary Beard || progressive historians ||
 * Harlem Renaissance ||  ||
 * Langston Hughes ||  ||
 * Alain Locke || was an American writer and philosopher in the early twentieth century known for his writings on the Harlem Renaissance; he is know as the Father of the Harlem Renaissance and became the strong motivating force behind the movement. ||
 * Prohibition || "The Noble Experiment", prohibits the sale or production of alcohol, but not the consumption. ||
 * A1 Capone ||  ||
 * Nativism ||  ||
 * Ku Klux Klan ||  ||
 * National Origins Act of 1924 || limited the number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the Unites States in 1890. ||
 * // The Birth of A Nation // || silent film that promoted white supremacy and positively portrayed members of the Klu Klux Klan ||
 * Fundamentalism || //The Fundamentals// ||
 * Scopes Trial || Dayton school teacher who was the defendant in the "Monkey Trial." ||
 * Election of 1924 ||  ||
 * Election of 1928 ||  ||
 * Presidency of Warren G. Harding ||  ||
 * Teapot Dome Scandal || was a major bribery scandal during the Harding administration that involved "Teapot Dome," an area in Wyoming. Harry Sinclair tried to bribe Doheny, a politician, and once discovered, there was major public outrage. ||  ||   ||
 * Presidency of Calvin Coolidge ||  ||