APUSH Chapter 23: Clash of Cultures
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1. 1903: The Wright Orville Wright credited with the design and construction
Brothers Air- of the first practical airplane. They made the first con-
plane Flight trollable, powered heavier-than-air flight along with many
other aviation milestones, also showing the beginning of
the individual progressive spirit.
2. 1913 Armory Ashcan artists staged the Armory Show to appreciate
Show in NYC in- expressionism and abstraction in NYC in 1913. 1913,
troduces modern Ashcan School Art Show. Americans' first exposure to
art European Impressionist art.
3. 1916: Marcus Marcus Garvey and his organization, the Universal Negro
Garvey brings Improvement Association (UNIA), represent the largest
Universal Negro mass movement in African-American history. Proclaiming
Reform Improve- a black nationalist "Back to Africa" message, Garvey and
ment Associa- the UNIA established 700 branches in thirty-eight states
tion to New York by the early 1920s. While chapters existed in the larger
urban areas such as New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles,
Garvey's message reached into small towns across the
country as well.
4.
, APUSH Chapter 23: Clash of Cultures
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1920: Prohibition The ever-genial Harding stacked his Cabinet with cronies
begins. Harding from Ohio. He let his attorney general sell pardons and
elected President pledges of government non-interference to the highest
bidders. He looked the other way while his secretary of
the interior accepted almost $400,000 in kickbacks in ex-
change for a long-term lease on oil-rich federal lands at
Teapot Dome, Wyoming. All the while, he adhered to a
limited and conservative vision of government, pressing
for lower taxes and less regulation and issuing an implicit
repudiation of Wilsonian reformism.
5. In 1921, Al- This 20th Century scientist Einstein revolutionized the way
bert Einstein was scientists thought about space, time and matter, the most
awarded the No- notable being his theory of relativity. The theory, which
bel Prize in Einstein published in 1915, expanded the theory of special
Physics relativity that he had published 10 years earlier. Special
relativity argued that space and time are inextricably con-
nected, but that theory didn't acknowledge the existence
of gravity.
6. 1922: First ra- Like film, radio was invented in the late nineteenth century
dio commercial but experienced its formative era of commercial expansion
aired. in the twenties. On November 2, 1920, radio station KDKA
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, broadcast the presidential
election returns. It was the first-ever live radio transmission
for a popular audience, and although few Americans that
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