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| The migration of Black southerners from the South to urban cities like Chicago. They were able to find better jobs without sharecropping. This was the beginning of the ghettos. Racism was still prominent in that blacks made less than whites but paid more for housing. But it increased the blacks awareness of racism as well as their autonomy and power. |
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| Blacks find racial pride in the urban areas. They produce multitudes of black literature, paintings, sculptures, and music. Also served as a proof to their equality with whites. |
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| Beginning in the 1920's with the invention of the phonograph, the Jazz Age saw a fascination with Jazz music. Music companies marketed to stereotyped groups, such as jazz or blues to blacks and country music to "hillbillies". They also promoted dance crazes like the Charleston. Everything was becoming more and more commercialized. |
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| Signed by 64 nations, this pact renounced aggression and outlawed war. Not very effective though, seeing as how the U.S. signed it saying that they still maintain the rights to self-defense, take no responsibility for upholding or enforcing this pact, and still maintains its claims under the Monroe Doctrine, which says that any intervention by external powers with the politics of the U.S. may be considered as hostile. |
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| A coalition of women's rights activists who pushed for equal voting rights for women. They got many states to allow for women to serve on juries, some enacted equal-pay laws, and Wisconsin adopted an equal rights law. |
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| Multinational corporations |
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| US companies would expand into foreign markets in order to expand and avoid foreign tariffs. |
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| National Origins Act of 1924 |
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| This act restricted immigration into the United States by not allowing anyone who was not white, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant to enter the country. It limited the amount of immigrants to 150,000 per year and completely forbid the Japanese from immigrating. |
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| American born Japanese children who would have citizenship. Their parents, who were forbidden by the Supreme Court to ever have full citizenship, hoped that their children would at least have a future. |
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| The control of one industry by just a few large companies. This took over in the 1920's when large companies would systematically buy up all their smaller competition. |
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| The rejection of unionization in businesses. The National Association of Manufacturers claimed collective bargaining was un-American and thus tried to destroy union-shop contracts. |
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| Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act |
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| This act was the first federal social-welfare law. It provided federal funding for infant and maternity care. |
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| Passed in 1920, the 18th Amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages. The Volstead Act defined the forbidden liquors and instituted the Prohibition Bureau to enforce the law. But due to the small size and limited resources of the bureau, bootleggers often worked openly. |
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| The idea that instead of unions, employees could be given benefits like health care, insurance, pension, vacations, sports teams and even home-financing plans in order to tie them to the company and prevent unionization. This method only covered less than 5% of the workforce though and only covered skilled workers who already had seniority. Also only for men. |
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| Contracts that employees were forced to sign saying that they reject unions and will not become a member of one if they want to keep their jobs. |
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