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20s And 30s Review Flashcards

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Scandals

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Tea pot dome- Harding’s Secretary of the Interior – Albert Fall leased government land to oil companies for drilling. He pocketed the lease money

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Hoover response to stock market crash

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Trickle down economics- tax breaks for the rich

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Franklin Roosevelt

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President during the Great Depression

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New deal and three R’s

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Roosevelt’s plan to end the Great Depression:

Relief, recovery, and reform

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New Deal laws

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Social Security 
Wagner Act
Works progress administration 
Fair Labor Standards Act
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
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Critics of the new deal

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Conservative republicans

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Court-packing scheme

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Franklin Roosevelt’s politically motivated and ill-fated scheme to add a new justice to the Supreme Court for every member over seventy who would not retire.

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Tariffs and attitudes of the 1920s

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Raised tariffs on imported goods

Harding reflected a laissez Faire attitude

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Expatriate writers

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The lost generation. A person residing in a country other than that of their citizenship. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Hemmingway

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Expatriate writer

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Langston Hughes

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Harlem Renaissance poet

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Expatriate writer

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Fundamentalist and scopes monkey trial

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Fundamentalist strictly believed the words from the bible and rejected all theories of Darwin evolution. Scopes was tried for teaching evolution in schools.

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KKK

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Ku Klux Klan; oppose social change and black emancipation through violence and terrorism

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Harlem Renaissance

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Cultural rebirth for African American community. Centered in Harlem. The “new negro”.

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Cause and effects of stock market crash

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Causes: Buying on the margin. Installment plan. No regulations. No insurance on money deposited in banks.
Effects: bank failures. Decline in consumerism. People were unable to pay back their loans.

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Buying on the margin

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Buying stock but only paying a percentage of the total and paying the rest with borrowed money from the bank.

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Installment plans

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Paying a fixed price over a period of time.

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Advertising in the 20s

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Advertising was big because companies had not mastered the art of mass production, all they needed was a way to get people to buy their goods.

20
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New deal policies that helped bankers businessmen and consumers.

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Emergency Banking Act: declared bank holidays in an attempt to stem the bank runs
The FIDC: insurance on money deposited into banks

21
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Flapper

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A fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.

22
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19th ammendment

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Women suffrage

23
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Role of women in the prohibition

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Against the consumption of alcohol. Supported the 18th amendment.

24
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Eleanor Roosevelt

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Wife of FDR. most active First Lady

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Working conditions

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Laborers were reduced to poor living conditions

26
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Power or weakness of labor unions

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Many geeked the power of unions during the red scare. They felt that they were bringing in too much socialistic ideals.During the FDR presidency he promoted the ideas of collective bargaining.

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Immigration in this time period

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Immigration was restricted. America was becoming a melting pot.

28
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Immigration restrictions

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Immigration Act of 1924 set a quota for how many immigrants were allowed in the country

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Red scare

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The hunt for communist in America

30
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Palmer Raids

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Palmer was known for his ruthlessness in finding and capturing communists

31
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Sacco and Vanzetti

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Anarchist who were charged with murder because the government feared they were communists, even though there was not sufficient evidence.

32
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Wagner Act

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Protected the right of employees to organize into unions and to bargain collectively.

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CIO

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Congress of industrial organization- laborers Union together.

34
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1920s problems of overproduction

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Farmers had to much product, but not enough demand because the war had come to an end.

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Lack of support from federal government in the 20s

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The government chose a laissez Faire stand point.

36
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Great Depression effects on farmers

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Dust Bowl- all the top soil was plowed and the farmer were unable to produce food
New deal laws: AAA- gave subsidies to farmers to farms on certain portions of land
Soil conservation act: farmers were paid to cut production of soil depleting crops

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