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Attornery General Mitchell Palmer

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Big proponent of the Red Scare

Rounding up suspected Communists to deport

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Buford

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A ship full of alleged alien radicals deported to Russia

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Sacco and Vanzetti Trial

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Since the men were New immigrants they were unfairly prosecuted and killed for a crime that deserved only a prison term

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Rise and Fall of the Klan

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During the 1920s, the KKK peaked in the mid-1920s, when they marched down Washington

After that membership declined as Klan officials got involved in scandals

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Emergency Quota Act of 1921

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Showcases isolationist America

Newcomers from Europe could only be 3% of their people already living in America in 1921

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Immigration Act of 1924

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Quotas changed to 2% of people living in America in 1890. This prevented many New immigrants from coming over

Marked the end of an era of virtually unrestricted immigration

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Horace Kallen

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believed that the US should provide a protective canopy for ethnic and racial groups to preserve their uniqueness

melting pot should not remove uniqueness

cultural pluralism

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Randolph Bourne

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advocated greater cross-fertilization among immigrants

transnational America

cultural pluralism

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Where was prohibition really popular?

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Bible belt South

West (all their saloons)

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What hampered the implementation of prohibition?

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  1. After the war people were depressed and drunk
  2. Drinking was a big part of immigrants cultures
  3. Enforcement was weak
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St. Valentine’s Day 1929

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Capone is behind the massacre of seven disarmed members of a rival gang

He can not be caught for it. Caught for tax evasion eventually

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Lindbergh Law

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Interstate abduction in certain circumstances is a death-penalty offense

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Professor John Dewey

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Advocates learning by doing

education for “life” should be a goal of the teacher

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Advertising

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rises out of a need for a market to sell all these new products to

advertising convinces people that they have a need to buy things

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Bruce Barton

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founder of modern advertising

says that Jesus Christ was the greatest ad-man of all time

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Charles A. Lindbergh

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Rides the Spirit of the Saint Louis across the Atlantic and becomes a national hero

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The Great Train Robbery

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the first motion picture with a story

before this they were mostly peep-shows

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The Jazz Singer

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started the talkie movie

white performer Al Jolson painted blackface

led to the decline of silent films

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Standardization of tastes and languages in America

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Driven by the radio and movies, American culture became much more homogenous

Not necessarily a bad thing because now there was a working-class political coalition

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Margaret Sanger

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openly championed using birth control

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Alice Paul Walker

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began to campaign for an equal rights amendment to the constitution

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Dr. Sigmund Freud

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supported the idea of releasing inner-sexuality

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Marcus Garvey

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founded the United Negro Improvement Association to promote the resettlement of American blacks to their own African homeland

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Langston Hughes

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black poet who published the Weary Blues

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HL Mencken

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Published American Mercury to criticize America

attacked Puritanism

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Babbittry

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coined by Sinclair Lewis

used to describe conforming to a middle class lifestyle

27
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Ezra Pund

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poet who deserted America for Europe

28
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T.S. Eliot

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wrote The Waste Land

29
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Eugene O’Neill

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Playwright

laid bare Freudian notions of sex in Strange Interlude

30
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On margin

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popular way of buying things in the 1920s with little down payment

31
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Bureau of the Budget

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created in 1921

made the president prepare an official annual budget to be submitted to Congress

32
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Secretary of the Treasury Mellon

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greatly cut taxes for the rich

believed that taxes kept money from being paid to workers

in reality, if some of the debt would have been paid for with taxes there would have been less money for overspeculation

33
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Charles Evans Hughes

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brilliant secretary of state under Harding, even if he was conservative

34
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The Supreme Court under Harding

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Harding appointed many justices to the Supreme Court

The Court became very conservative

35
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Adkins v. Children’s Hospital

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the Court now ruled that since women had the right to vote they no longer needed special protection in the workplace

36
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Business and Harding

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Harding let businesses do what they wanted

little regulation

37
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Esch-Cummins Transportation Act

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encouraged the private consolidation of the railroads

Interstate Commerce Commission now protects railroads

government control of railroads went backwards

38
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Merchant Marine Act

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dispose much of the hastily built wartime fleet

39
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The American Legion

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showcases how big veterans power was at this time

the servicemen demanded compensation for the wages they had lost while fighting

bullied Congress into passing a Bonus Bill

40
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Adjusted Compensation Act

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gave every soldier a paid-up insurance policy due in 20 years

Coolidge vetoed this because it was too costly, but Congress overruled him

41
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Middle East

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Harding and Secretary Hughes secure rights for American oil companies in the Middle East

tensions between American and Great Britain over this

42
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Washington Disarmament Conference

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under Harding. Specifically Secretary of State Hughes

the US: Britain: Japan get ships in a ratio of 5:5:3

Japan is mad so the British and America agree not to fortify East Asian territories under the Five Power Naval Treaty

43
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Was disarmament really successful?

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No. There was no real action taken towards small warships and nations continued to build up their navies

44
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Kellogg-Briand Pact

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negotiated by Coolidge’s Frank Kellogg

did not do much because defensive wars were still permitted

45
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Fordney-McCumber Tariff Law

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tariffs greatly raised

duties on farm products increased

46
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High tarrifs and Europes

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High tariffs are partially bad because Europe needs American markets to pay off its war debt

Europe stays devastated if American markets are not open to them

47
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Teapot Dome Scandal

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Albert B. Fall transfers naval oil supplies to his department of the interior

he makes a ton of money through bribes

this made people think the entire presidency was corrupt

48
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Attonery General Daughtery

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Investigated for selling pardons and liquor permits

Another example of Harding-era scandals

49
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farmers in postwar years

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struggling because government is no longer setting artificially high prices

they also had large surpluses due to better machinery

50
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Capper-Volstead Act

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helps the farmers

exempted farmers’ marketing corporations from antitrust laws

51
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Election of 1924

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Democrat: John W. Davis
Republican: Coolidge
Progressive: Robert LaFollete

52
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International debt tangle key knot

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US had loaned the Allies 10 billion dollars during the war

Allies thought they should not have to pay it because they paid with their lives

53
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Dawes Plan of 1924

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rescheduled German reparations payments and opened the way for America to privately loan Germans

US loans Germany, Germany pays Allies, Allies pay the US

Entire world is reliant on American credit

54
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1928 election

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Democrat: Alfred Smith (drunk, new yorker, catholic)
Republican: Herbert Hoover

55
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Hoover and the farmers

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Money was lent generously to farm organizations seeking to buy, sell, and store agricultural supplies

passes Agricultural Marketing Act

56
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff

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Hoover

Highest peacetime tariff in American history

made foreigners think that the US was purposedly hating them

57
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Simple cause of the crash

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the nation’s ability to produce goods had clearly outrun its capacity to consume and pay for goods

58
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Rugged Individualism in a social sense

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Since Hoover had invented himself and worked his way up from nothing, he does not believe in free handouts

Hoover tries to use trickle down methods to solve the problem

59
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation

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Hoover

government lending bank

providing indirect relief

60
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Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act

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Hoover

Stopped yellowdog contracts, stopped injunctions

61
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Veterans and Hoover

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the Bonus Army tries to get their bonuses during the Great Depression

Hoover sends the army on them. Army led by General MacArthur

Made Hoover very unpopular

62
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Good Neighbor Policy

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Hoover starts the policy that begins to shy away from imperialism

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