Chapter 23 Flashcards
Harding “Return to Normalcy”
-Isolation, weariness from a world war unprecedented in its destruction
-End of Progressive Reform, government deregulation
Republican Policy
Business regulation should be kept to a minimum
These 2 measures set the stage for the short term economic explosion in the roaring 20’s
-Supreme court decisions opposing any federal regulations
-Harding passes several measures to aid American buisness
Welfare Capitalism
companies attempts to discourage unions and generate employee loyalty
implementations
improved factory safety, sanitation, paid vacations, and pension plans
American wages were still insufficient to purchase
credit
Americans consumed illegal alcohol in
speakeasies
most celebrated act of gangland violence during prohibtion
St. Valentines Day Massacre
18th amendment was repealed
gang slayings, police corruption, disrespect for the law and a demoralized judiciary system
No change in the 20s sparked more heated debates than
the changing roles of women
the new negro
African Americans challenged the caste system that confined blacks to the lowest levels of society
The harlem Renaissances
create a distinctive african American culture. cities stressing self confidence
cities
undesirable immigrants, catholics, jews, liberal protestants, and atheists. cities spawned every imaginable vice.
rural
old time protestant, old fashioned moral standards (abstinence and self denial)
the rebirth of the klu Klux klan
100% American campaign, klan promised to defend family morality and traditional American values.
Scopes Trial
Clarence Darrow vs. William Jennings Bryan
Trail dramatized and inflamed divisons between
intellectuals v. uneducated, city vs. country, privileged v. poor, scoffers v. unfaithful
idk
Herbert hoover
causes of the great depression
-Over production, under consumption
-agriculture slump and surpluses
-easy availability of credit
On October 29, 1929
black Tuesday refers to the stock market crash
Cause of the collapse
-speculation
-on margin buying
Hawley Smoot Tariff
Highest protective tariff in peace time history
Hoovers Philosophy of Government
-Government should not let economic events run their course but it should help people help themselves
Reconstruction finance corporation (RFC) provides loans to
railroads, banks and local government and mortgage associations
Make shift communities on the outskirts of cities became known as
hoovervilles
the popular expression of the day was
brother can you spare a dime
1500 unemployed WWI veterans and their families marched on DC
demanding their war bonuses
Clear out the bonus army
General Douglas McArthur
European born political philosophies/parties
socialist communists
