American Pageant Chapters 31-33 terms,
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| 677890023 | 1919-1920 Red Scare | People were afraid of radicals and communists | |
| 677890024 | "Radical" Elements of the Red Scare | ... | |
| 677890025 | Supporters of the Red Scare | ... | |
| 677890026 | KKK in the 1920s | Indiana headquarters, hated foreigners, catholics, jews, birth control, African Americans, communists, gambling, adultery, etc. | |
| 677890027 | Immigration Restrictions in the 1920s | Restricted immigrants from Europe | |
| 677890028 | Quota System | restricted immigration to two percent for any given nationality, based on the total amount from the 1890 census; use of the 1890 census effectively restricted immigrants from eastern and southern Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America | |
| 677890029 | Volstead Act | no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, furnish or possess any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act." It did not specifically prohibit the purchase or use of intoxicating liquors | |
| 677890030 | John Dewey | Education based on life skills | |
| 677890031 | Gangsters in the 1920s | Al Capone, National law was hard to enforce | |
| 677890032 | Scopes trial | Fundementalism; W.J.B was the prosecution lawyer; Teacher who was arrested and tried in 1925 for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in a Tennessee public school; trial was nicknamed the "Monkey Trial" | |
| 677890033 | Bruce Barton | advertising- Jesus was the best advertiser | |
| 677890034 | 1920s prosperity | ... | |
| 677890035 | Mass Media in 1920s | ... | |
| 677890036 | Famous people of 1920s | ... | |
| 677890037 | Henry Ford | symbol of 20s, affordable for americans, mass production, assembly line | |
| 677890038 | Frederick W. Taylor | "efficiency expert"; mechanical engineer who wrote "principles of scientific management"; standardized tools and equipment | |
| 677890039 | Movies with sound/talking | ... | |
| 677890040 | Radios, Cars, Movies | ... | |
| 677890041 | Margaret Sanger | led birth control movement | |
| 677890042 | 1920 census | ... | |
| 677890043 | Marcus Garvey | African American leader who founded the United Negro Improvement Association, which urged African Americans to return to Africa and provided early inspiration for "black pride" movements; convicted of using fraudulent methods to sell stock in a steamship company in 1923; served three years in jail before receiving a pardon from President Coolidge and being deported to Jamaica | |
| 677890044 | Ernest Hemmingway | One of the most popular writers of the 1920's who wrote "A Farewell to Arms" | |
| 677890045 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | "The Great Gatsby" | |
| 677890046 | Sinclair Lewis | Mainstreet, Babbit; smalltown America portrayal | |
| 677890047 | William Faulker | wrote about the history of lthe deep south, he told the story is an imaginative, fictional way. Wrote "The Sound and the Fury", "As I Lay Dying" | |
| 677890048 | Buying stock "on margin" | loans | |
| 677890049 | Republican economic policies (Harding) | ... | |
| 677890050 | Supreme Court in 1920s | ... | |
| 677890051 | Muller v Adkins cases | centered on the question of whether women merited special legal and social treatment | |
| 677890052 | 1928 Kellog-Briand Pact | made it illegal to go to war | |
| 677890053 | Fordney McCumber Tariff | went from 27% to 35% tariff | |
| 677890054 | Hawley-Smoot Tariff | charged a high tax for imports thereby leading to less trade between america and foreign countries along with some economic retaliation | |
| 677890055 | Raising tariffs in 1920s | protected industry | |
| 677890056 | Teapot Dome Scandall | leasing oil lands, Harding administration took bribes | |
| 677890057 | Coolidge Administration | support of business, no scandall "boring" | |
| 677890058 | Farmers Problems in 1920s | gov. guarunteed prices, overproduction | |
| 677890059 | McNary-Haugen Bill | a plan to rehabilitate american agriculture by raising the domestic prices of farm products *effects of the protective tariff and burdens of debt and taxation had created a serious agricultural depression and grew steadily worse | |
| 677890060 | Norris-LaGuardia Act | guarantees workers' right to organize and restricts issuance of court injunctions against nonviolent union activity such as strikes, picketing, and boycotts. | |
| 677890061 | Progressive Party in 1924 | prohibition, women, southerners- coolige v davis v lafollette | |
| 677890062 | Dawes Plan | American-sponsored arrangement for rescheduling German reparations payments that only temporarily eased the international debt tangle of the 1920s | |
| 677890063 | Causes of the Great Depression | ... | |
| 677890064 | Effects of the Great Depression | ... | |
| 677890065 | Hoover and the Great Depression | Reconstruction Finance Corporation | |
| 677890066 | Alphabet Agencies | FDR's "reconstruction" | |
| 677890067 | Reconstruction Finance Corporation | $2 billion from the government; it made loans to major economic institutions such as banks, insurance companies and railroads. | |
| 677890068 | Civilian Conservation Corps | New Deal program that provided young men with jobs planting trees, fighting fires, and other projects to improve natural resources | |
| 677890069 | National Recovery Administration | Federal government's plan to revive industry during the Great Depression through production codes (guidelines) for wages and prices designed to limit competition | |
| 677890070 | Works Progress Administration | to create jobs | |
| 677890071 | Securities Exchange Commission | us government agency which oversees the operations of the stock markets which trade stocks, bonds, and other types of securities. | |
| 677890072 | Bonus Expeditionary Force | 20,000 veterans who converged on the capital in the summer of 1932; they were demanding the immediate payment of their entire bonus, which was meant to be paid in later years. They set up public camps. The pending bonus bill failed to pass in Congress, and Hoover arranged to pay the return fare of 6000 of them, but the rest refused to leave and were forcibly removed by MacArthur in the Battle of Anacostia Flats | |
| 677890073 | Hoover's Image | ... | |
| 677890074 | 1932 Stimson doctrine | In 1932, the policy declared in a note to Japan and China that the US would not recognize any international territorial changes brought about by force. It was enacted after Japan's military seizure of Manchuria in 1931. | |
| 677890075 | FDR's campaign in 1932 | ... | |
| 677890076 | "Hundred Days" | First 100 days of FDRs Term; did a lot; Three Rs: Relief, Recovery, Reform | |
| 677890077 | Social Security Act | guaranteed retirement payments for enrolled workers beginning at age 65; set up federal-state system of unemployment insurance and care for dependent mothers and children, the handicapped, and public health | |
| 677890078 | Glass-Steagall Act | Banking reform- closed banks; renewed faith | |
| 677890079 | Father Coughlin | a Catholic priest in Michigan who at first was with FDR then disliked the New Deal and voiced his opinions on radio. | |
| 677890080 | Huey Long | "share the wealth" | |
| 677890081 | Francis Townsend | attracted the trusting support of perhaps 5 million "senior citizens" with his fantastic plan of each senior receiving $200 month, provided that all of it would be spent within the month. Also, this was a mathematically silly plan. | |
| 677890082 | Agricultural Ajustment Act | helped farmers pay mortages; paid farmers not to plant to reduce overproduction | |
| 677890083 | 20th Amendment | cut the lame duck period | |
| 677890084 | 21st Amendment | repealed prohibition | |
| 677890085 | Dust Bowl Causes | winds blowing topsoil, farmers farmed on lined not made for farming, "Okies" went to California, caused by over-plowing, drought, and strong winds that destroyed million of acres of topsoil during the early 1930s | |
| 677890086 | Indian Reorganization Act | encouraged self government and cultural reservation | |
| 677890087 | Federal Securities Act | required corporations to provide complete info on all stock offerings; restore confidence in the stock market | |
| 677890088 | Tennessee Valley Authority | Improve economic conditions in the Tennessee Valley through development of hydroelectric power | |
| 677890089 | Wagner Act | guaranteed the right of unions to organize and to collectively bargain with management. | |
| 677890090 | National Labor Relations Act | also known as the wagner act, that guarantees workers the right of collective bargaining sets down rules to protect unions and organizers, and created the national labor relations board to regulate labor-managment relations. | |
| 677890091 | Congress of Industrial Organizations | led by John Lewis, orginially began as a group of unskilled workers who organized themselves into effective unions. As there popularity grew they came known for the revolutionary idea of the "sit down strike", there efforts lead to the passage of the Fair Labor Standard Act and the organization continued to thrive under the New Deal.( page 790-791) | |
| 677890092 | FDR's court packing scheme | President FDR's controversial plan to appoint Supreme Court justices who were sympathetic to his views, by allowing him to appoint a justice for every member over 70 years old; the Court maximum would have been fifteen; criticism from Democrats and Republicans led him to withdraw his proposal | |
| 677890093 | 1937 "Roosevelt Recession" | ... | |
| 677890094 | FDR's Deal | ... | |
| 677890095 | Effects of the New Deal | ... | |
| 677890096 | Women in the Great Depression | "Flappers" appeared that emphasized the physical beauty of women. | |
| 677890097 | Sacco and Vanzetti | anarchists, antiredism, antiforeignism; executed for murder of paymaster | |
| 677890098 | Fundementalism | the idea that EVERYTHING in the bible is true |
