Chapter 31-35 Flashcards
Bolshevik Revolution
1917 political take over of Communists lead by Lenin, over the Csar
Red Scare
1919-1920 scare that resulted in questioning the loyalty of left-wingers whether they were communists.
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
the Fighting Quaker, rounded up 6,000 people in question
Criminal Syndicalism Laws
Laws passed in 1920 which reflected the fears of the American Citizens, outlawed advocating violence to get social change, denied 5 social members of New York Legislation seats, critics said that words were not causing any problems
American Plan
Labors call for “closed” or all union denounced at Sovietism in disguise, employers in turn hailed their own antiunion campaign for the “open” shop.
Nicola Sacco/Bartolomeo Vanzetti
victim of anti-foreginism, shoe factory worker and fish peddler, who were convicted of killing a Massachusetts paymaster and his guard, jury and judge were prejudice because they were Italian anarchists, atheists and draft dodgers.
Emergency Quota Act of 1921
Newcomers from Europe were restricted in any given year to a definite quota which was 3 percent of the people of their nationality living in the US in 1910
Immigration Act of 1924
cut the quota for foreigners to 2 percent, Southern Europeans really did not like this, led to American hatred in Japan and Europe, Canadians and Latin Americans were exempt, marked the age of mass immigration, opposed by cultural pluralists who believed enough cultural diversity would get rid of racial differences.
Prohibition Experiment
didn’t work, lots of corruption, prohibition only got worse
Volstead Act
federal act enforcing the 18th amendment more
Racketeers
invaded ranks of local labor unions as organizers or promoters, extorted people under the threat of breaking their stuff
Scopes “Monkey” Trial
1925 case in Tennessee, where John T. Scopes was indicted for teaching evolution, prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan who got humiliated by Clarence Darrow, Scopes was convicted anyways
Henry Ford
industrial wizard in terms of developing cars, created the Model T, grasped and applied the technique of moving assembly line, flooded the market with his cars
United Negro Improvement Association
founded by Marcus Garvey, promoted the resettlement to the African homeland, wanted to keep money that blacks made with the blacks, inspired 4 million followers, but overall a pretty poorly thought out plan
H.L.Mencken
the”Bad Boy of Baltimore”, wrote American Mercury, assailed marriage, patriotism, democracy, Rotarians, middle class America, the south, the French, do-gooders
F. Scott Fitzgerald
wrote This Side of Paradise, and the Great Gatsby, exemplified the Jazz Age
Theodore Dreiser
wrote American Tragedy, explored pitfalls of social striving
Ernest Hemingway
responded to propaganda, told of disillusioned people
William Faulkner
wrote fiction books, peeled back layers of time and souls
T.S. Elliot
wrote the Wasteland
Kellogg-Briand Pact
the pact of Paris, ratified 62 nations, signed by Calvin Coolidge, secretary of state Frank Kellogg, defensive war was permitted, pretty much a useless Treaty
Fordney-McCumber Tariff LAW
boost 27 percent under the Underwood Tariff, boosted it to 38.5% wanted to protect domestic production from foreign competitors, caused Europe to raise its own tax protections
Teapot Dome Scandal
involved priceless naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome and Elk Hills, implicated Secretary of the Interior, Harding signed Fall’s orders tansfer properties to the interior department, Fall leased the lands to two other people for a bribe, polluted prestige of the government, undermined faith in courts, “you can’t put a million dollars in jail”.
McNary-Haugen Bill
wanted to keep agricultural prices high by telling goods abroad, any losses would be made up by a tax on the farmers, Coolidge vetoed it even though congress passed it twice, farm prices stayed down
Dawes Plan
created by Charles Dawes, allowed money to be lent to Germany, and vice versa, the money would go from the U.S. to German, who would use that money to pay back Britain and France, who would pay off the war debts to the USA
Agricultural Marketing Act
activated in June 1929, wanted to help the farmers help themselves, set up the Federal Farm Board, money was lent to farm corporation that were suffocated by a mass avalanche with dropped prices
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
trying to protect the farmers at first, had a ton of amendments to it, turned into the highest tariff ever at 60 percent, seemed like a declaration of economic warfare, sunk everyone into a depression
Hooversville
really shitty towns of poor people who lived in horrible conditions and begged for money
Reconstruction Finance Corporation - HOOVER
government lending bank, was supposed to provide relief to banks, companies, railroads, no loans to the individual, beneficial, but far too late
Borris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act
outlawed antiunion contracts and forbade federal courts to issue injunctions to restrain strikes, boycotts and peaceful picketing
Bonus Army
a bunch of rioters who wanted rights for the veterans, MacArthur reoved them because things got a little bit out of hand
Emergency Banking Relief Act (Banking)
invested the President with the power to regulate banking transactions and foreign exchange and to reopen solvent banks
Civillian Conservation Corps (Unemployment)
CCC one of the most popular pasrts of the New Deal, provided employment in fresh air government camps for about 3 million uniformed young men, they got set to work doing reforestation, firefighting, flood control, swamp drainage, sent home the pay, both human and natural resources were conserved
Federal Emergency Relief Act (Unemployment)
FERA focused on immédiate relief rather than long-range recovery, lead by Harry L. Hopkins who granted 3 billion to state for direct dole payments for wages on work projects
