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Chapters 31 and 32 Flashcards

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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
Published American Mercury to criticize America attacked Puritanism
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Babbittry
coined by Sinclair Lewis used to describe conforming to a middle class lifestyle
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Ezra Pund
poet who deserted America for Europe
28
T.S. Eliot
wrote The Waste Land
29
Eugene O'Neill
Playwright laid bare Freudian notions of sex in Strange Interlude
30
On margin
popular way of buying things in the 1920s with little down payment
31
Bureau of the Budget
created in 1921 made the president prepare an official annual budget to be submitted to Congress
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Secretary of the Treasury Mellon
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
Charles Evans Hughes
brilliant secretary of state under Harding, even if he was conservative
34
The Supreme Court under Harding
Harding appointed many justices to the Supreme Court The Court became very conservative
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Adkins v. Children's Hospital
the Court now ruled that since women had the right to vote they no longer needed special protection in the workplace
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Business and Harding
Harding let businesses do what they wanted little regulation
37
Esch-Cummins Transportation Act
encouraged the private consolidation of the railroads Interstate Commerce Commission now protects railroads government control of railroads went backwards
38
Merchant Marine Act
dispose much of the hastily built wartime fleet
39
The American Legion
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
Adjusted Compensation Act
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
Middle East
Harding and Secretary Hughes secure rights for American oil companies in the Middle East tensions between American and Great Britain over this
42
Washington Disarmament Conference
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
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Was disarmament really successful?
No. There was no real action taken towards small warships and nations continued to build up their navies
44
Kellogg-Briand Pact
negotiated by Coolidge's Frank Kellogg did not do much because defensive wars were still permitted
45
Fordney-McCumber Tariff Law
tariffs greatly raised duties on farm products increased
46
High tarrifs and Europes
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
Teapot Dome Scandal
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
Attonery General Daughtery
Investigated for selling pardons and liquor permits Another example of Harding-era scandals
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farmers in postwar years
struggling because government is no longer setting artificially high prices they also had large surpluses due to better machinery
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Capper-Volstead Act
helps the farmers exempted farmers' marketing corporations from antitrust laws
51
Election of 1924
Democrat: John W. Davis Republican: Coolidge Progressive: Robert LaFollete
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International debt tangle key knot
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
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Dawes Plan of 1924
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
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1928 election
Democrat: Alfred Smith (drunk, new yorker, catholic) Republican: Herbert Hoover
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Hoover and the farmers
Money was lent generously to farm organizations seeking to buy, sell, and store agricultural supplies passes Agricultural Marketing Act
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Hoover Highest peacetime tariff in American history made foreigners think that the US was purposedly hating them
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Simple cause of the crash
the nation's ability to produce goods had clearly outrun its capacity to consume and pay for goods
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Rugged Individualism in a social sense
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
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Hoover government lending bank providing indirect relief
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Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act
Hoover Stopped yellowdog contracts, stopped injunctions
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Veterans and Hoover
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
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Good Neighbor Policy
Hoover starts the policy that begins to shy away from imperialism

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