Calvin Coolidge Presidency Flashcards
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| 714158313 | National Origin Immigration Act | Changed immigration to only 2% By 1927=All Asians and East/Southern Europeans limited and Japanese banned | |
| 714158314 | Dawes Plan | Charles Dawes-Coolidge's VP Comp. accepted by all sides Estab. cycle of payments from US to Germany to Allies Banks lend to Germany to pay reparations Stock market crash=no longer took part | |
| 714158315 | Revenue Act | 1926 Reduction of inheritance and income taxes Cancellation of excise imposts End of public access to fed. Income tax returns | |
| 714158316 | Kellogg-Briand Pact | Peace movement b/w U.S and France Renounced aggressive use of force to achieve national ends Ineffective for defensive war Almost whole world signed | |
| 714158317 | McNary Haugen Bill Vetoes | 1927 and 1928 To help farmers cope w/ falling crop prices Not allow bonuses for WWI vets | |
| 714158318 | Poets | Disillusionment w/ ideals of an earlier time and w/ materialism of business oriented culture TS Elliot EC Cummings Ezra Pund | |
| 714158319 | Novelists | Disillusionment w/ ideals of an earlier time and w/ materialism of business oriented culture "Lost Generation" F. Scott Fitzgerald Sinclair Lewis-Babbit Ernest Hemmingway HL Mencken Most were critics of American culture | |
| 714158320 | Harlem Renaissance | Flowering of African American cultural and intellectual life During 1920 and 1930 Through books, newspapers, music, art WEB Du Bois Langston Hughes-Poet Duke Ellington-Jazz Musician "the Jazz Singer"-first full length motion pic w/ synchronized dialogue sequences |