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Chapter 8 Flashcards

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Normalcy

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returning to normal

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Ohio Gang

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childhood friends of Warren G. Harding that were given high level positions

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Teapot Dome Scandal

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  • secretary of the interior Albert B. Fall
  • allows private interests to lease land containing US Navy oil reserves
    -Teapot Dome, WY and Elk Hill, CA
  • Harry Daugherty, Attorney General, bribed by General, bribed by German agent fro shares in a company seized after WW1
  • wants immunity
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Forbes Scandel

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sell medical supplies on side - cost $200 million

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Mass Production

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large scale product manufacturing is usually done by machinery

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Assembly Line

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divide operation into simple tasks so unskilled laborers could do work

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Kelly Act

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1925: could fly mail through private contractors

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Air Commerce Act

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federal aid to build airports

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Managerial Revolution

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  • companies create departments (sales, marketing, accounting, operations)
  • mangers handle day to day operations to allow CEO’s to focus on long term goals
  • increase size of middle class
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Welfare Capitalism

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  • companies allows workers to buy stock, participate in profit sharing, and receiving benefits like health care and pensions
  • unions lose influence
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Open Shop

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workers don’t need to join a union

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Supply-side Economics

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  • Created by Andrew Mellon
  • cutting taxes so people have more money to now buy things
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Edward Armstrong

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  • inventor
  • created FM radio (frequent)
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Guglielmo Marconi

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  • inventor
  • invented radio
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Cooperative Individualism

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  • Promote economic stability in various industries
  • have manufacture create their own trade organizations to share information w/ Federal gov.
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Moratorium

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a temporary suspension of a law

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Isolationism

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Americans felt left alone to pursue prosperity

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Washington Conference

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  • stop post-war arms race
  • 11/21/1921
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Dawes Plan

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  • Germany cannot make reparations
  • American banks loan money to Germany to pay off Britain and France
  • Britain and France accept less and pay more war debt
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Kellogg-Briand Pact

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August 27, 1928: treaty to outlaw war, 62 nations agree
- No force behind it, but a victory for peace ( settle all disputes by peaceful means )

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Charles Lindberg

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solo flight 1927, increase potential of commercial flights

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Amelia Earhart

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women can fly too
advertisers praise idea for businessmen

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Orville & Wilbur Wright

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made the first successful airplane in Kitty Hawlk 1903

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Otto Rohweddler

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  • invented the bread slicer
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Warren G. Harding

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  • work through Ohio legislature
  • runs on policy of returning back to normal
  • though himself intellectually unfit for office
  • wins presidential election of 1920 against James M. Cox (Gov. Ohio)
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Herbert Hoover

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Secretary of Commerce

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Calvin Coolidge

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  • alligns with prosperity & big business
  • national notoriety as Gov. of Mass.
  • replaces Ohio Gang keeping good guys in
  • keep gov. out of business, use as motto for presidential run
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Andrew Mellon

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Secretary of Treasury (served in three administrations)

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Charles G. Dawes

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created Dawes Plan which paid for Germany’s reparations

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Charles Evan Hughes

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Secretary of State

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Social Impact of the Automobile

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gave people more personal freedom as well as jobs and services

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Examples of New Consumer Goods

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  • frozen goods, electric razors, washing machines, gas stoves
  • appeal to people’s health concerns (indoor plumbing, cleaning products)
  • mouthwash, deodorant, perfume, etc.
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The Airline and Radio Industry

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  • people saw airlines as dangerous, flimsy, in movies
  • 1926: National Broadcasting System (NBC) -> Federal Radio Commissiom
  • 1928: Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) -> two companies sell ads, have popular programming
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Farm Crisis

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  • technological advances create more product w/o increases in demand = lower prices
  • costs still remain high

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