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Herbert Hoover

The Roaring 20's

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The Roaring Twenties by Joshua Zeitz Where there?s smoke there?s fire, by Russell Patterson, ca. 1925. (Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division) The 1920s heralded a dramatic break between America?s past and future. Before World War I the country remained culturally and psychologically rooted in the nineteenth century, but in the 1920s America seemed to break its wistful attachments to the recent past and usher in a more modern era. The most vivid impressions of that era are flappers and dance halls, movie palaces and radio empires, and Prohibition and speakeasies. Scientists shattered the boundaries of space and time, aviators made men fly, and women went to work. The country was confident?and rich. But the 1920s were an age of

Vocabulary for APUSH 1920's and 1930's

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1.Charlie Chaplin- He was an English actor who rose to fame as a silent actor and rose from nothing to be at the top of the acting profession. He fought against fascism and recognized it as a an evil and in his film, The Great Dictator, satirized him. 2.Jack Dempsey- Jack Dempsey was a professional American boxer who was a celebrity that had his reputation hurt for a perceived attempt to avoid enlistment in the U.S. army until records were revealed that showed he was rejected. 3.Satchel Paige- He is a legendary African-American pitcher who joined the white league after showing great promise in the black league and was inducted into the MLB Hall of Fame.

1984 AP US History DBQ

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The College Board Advanced Placement Examination AMERICAN HISTORY SECTION I1 (Suggested writing time-40 minutes) Directions: The following question requires you to construct a coherent essay that integrates your interpretation of Documents A-H and your knowledge of the period referred to in the question. In your essay, you should strive to support your assertions both by citing key pieces of evidence from the documents and by drawing on your knowledge of the period. 1. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is commonly thought of as a liberal and President Herbert C. Hoover as a conservative. To what extent are these characterizations valid? Document A Source: Candidate Herbert Hoover, speech, New York, New York (October 22,1928)

1984 College Board DBQ

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The College Board Advanced Placement Examination AMERICAN HISTORY SECTION I1 (Suggested writing time-40 minutes) Directions: The following question requires you to construct a coherent essay that integrates your interpretation of Documents A-H and your knowledge of the period referred to in the question. In your essay, you should strive to support your assertions both by citing key pieces of evidence from the documents and by drawing on your knowledge of the period. 1. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is commonly thought of as a liberal and President Herbert C. Hoover as a conservative. To what extent are these characterizations valid? Document A Source: Candidate Herbert Hoover, speech, New York, New York (October 22,1928)

Chap 32 AP US History notes

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A.P. U.S. History Notes Chapter 32 ?The Politics of Boom and Bust? (1920-1932) Chapter 32 Essential Learnings / Goals / Objectives I. Explore the economic issues involved in the Boom/Bust of the 20s. Vocabulary / Significant Terms: ?cronies? ?reactionaries? ?Merchant Marine? ?injunction? ?moratorium? ?parity? ?hung jury? ?harrow? ?reparations? ?devaluation? (of currency, also ?floating? currency) ?paternalism? ?quagmire? ?recourse? ?torpor? ?recalcitrant? ?exacerbated? I. The Republican ?Old Guard? Returns (3 Republicans win the 3 presidential elections of the 20s) A. Harding was inaugurated in 1921, looking presidential. 1. He was one of the best-liked men of his generation.

Chapter 33 Outline

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Chapter 33 Outline Catherine Snyder The Republican ?Old Guard? Returns Warren G Harding: became president in 1921, was a people-person, couldn?t see the immoral-ness in his associates Charles Evans Hughes: secretary of state, conservative leadership Andrew W. Mellon: new secretary of treasury, multimillionaire Herbert Hoover: secretary of commerce, wartime food administrator, important in foreign trade for US manufacturers Senator Albert B. Fall: New Mexico, anticonservationist, secretary of the interior Harry M. Daugherty: deceiving attorney general GOP Reaction at the Throttle Old Guard: wanted to get rid of progressive reforms and go back to laissez-faire government to the extent of guiding business to profit Taft: new chief justice, more liberal

the 1920s and 1930s vocabulary

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The 1920s and 1930s 272. Nativism: severe immigration laws to discourage and discriminate against foreigners, believed to erode old-fashioned American values ? Birth of a Nation? spawned resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan?based on The Clansman Ku Klux Klan ? spread quickly; opposed everything that was not White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) (and conservative),Stephenson?s faults and jail sentence led to demise ?National Origins Act (1924) ? reduced quota, reduced numbers from eastern and southern Europe, Asians banned, Canadians and Latin Americans exempt ? Sacco & Vanzetti Trial ? prejudiced jury sentenced them to death, caused riots around the world, new trial denied

US History Notes

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SEMESTER 2 Unit 1: Growth of big business in America led to- Better transportation Transcontinental railroad Steel Industries Iron ore that is heater 1859= Drakes Folly He drilled a hole in Titusville Pa and oil came out Oil at the time was used to make Kerosene which was used for lighting and heating Lazzie Faire- hands off by the government Samuel Clements (Mark Twain)- Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Horratis Alger and Samuel Clements were both authors that lived at the same time Rockefeller- Believed in cutthroat competition Went from rags to riches Hard Worker Lived in Cleveland Started to make barrels for oil Came up with rebates Controls 90% of the oil Had a monopoly on oil Standard Oil is the name of his company now called exon Also a philanthropist Robber Barren

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