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Need To Know

  • Teapot Dome: A scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted bribes for leasing oil. Corruption in Harding's presidency
  • Five-Power Naval Treaty of 1922: Committed by Britain, France, Japan, Italy, and US to reduce naval size.
  • Welfare Capitalism: Industrial programs for workers
  • Prohibition: The ban on the manufacturing and sale of alcohol. 18th amendment, repealed 1933.

Need To Know

  • New Woman: Alternative image of womanhood that came into the American mainstream in the 1920s. Young women were college educated, drank, smoke, and wore skimpy outfits.
  • New Negro: Refers to African Americans who challenged American racial hierarchy through the arts. Became known as the Harlem Renaissance.

Chronology

Prohibition begins. Women get the vote. Warren Harding Elected

Sheppard-Towner Act. Restriction of Migration

From New Era to Great Depression

Equal Rights Amendment defeated. Harding dies. Coolidge is president

Five-Power Naval Treaty

Dawes Plan. Johnson Reed Act. Indian Citizenship Act

St. Valentine's Day murders, Stock market crashes

Herbert Hoover elected president

Scopes Trial

1920

1921

1922

1923

1924

1925

1928

1929

1930

1931

$420 million in works projects

Scottsboro Boys arrestred

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