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Herbert Hoover (3 things)

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Rags to riches, orphaned at age 10–>mining millionaire
Food administrateur under Wilson
Secretary of commerce under Harding and Coolidge

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1928 election (who vs who)

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Herbert Hoover-republican,dry,Protestant, traditional values, rural, nativism
campaign slogan “chicken in every pot in a car in every garage”

Alfred Smith- Democrat, Catholic, wet, urban, immigration , help the working class

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Who won the 1928 election

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Herbert Hoover

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Hoovers philosophy

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Initially not aid from the government but from volunteers problems resolved by cooperation but business and local government

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Smoot Hawley tariff (when and what)

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1930
Protective tariff which raised the taxes on imported goods
European companies retaliated with equally high tariffs
makes things a whole lot worse reduced exports and imports by more than half

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Reconstruction finance

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Government agency government loans to banks railroads and other big businesses in 1932
To loan money to states
finance many public projects

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Hooverville

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Home shelter belt from old boxes and other debris group together and pitiful shanty towns

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Bonus army

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1932 World War I veterans marched on Washington demanding money they were promised by 1945 congress refused
Hoover sends General MacArthur to burn shantytown and gass men
Hoover’s reputation was ruined

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Depression

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. When economic activity decreases an unemployment is high

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Six causes of Great Depression

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1.Unbalanced economy /Farmers /overproduction
2. Credit crisis:Buying on margin
3.banks failed
4.failed international crisis (tariff)
5.poverty
6. Stock market crashed

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Unbalanced economy

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Supply high but demand low

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Credit crisis

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Ping a fraction of the stock price and borrowing the rest

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Banks failed

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People panicked and withdrew their money

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International crisis: tarifs

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Tax on imports but nationally

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Poverty

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People lose jobs due to the boys coming back, not pumping in money to the economy

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Stock exchange

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Organized system of buying and selling shares (stocks) in a company

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Stock

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Share of value in a company

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Broker

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Experts who buy sell stocks for consumers (for a fee)

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Black Tuesday/Thursday

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October 24th (began)
October 29th (bottom fell out)

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Speculation

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Buying stocks and bonds hoping for a quick profit

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Gangster

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Member of a gang of violent crimes

22
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Organized crime

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Organization run by criminals to engage in illegal activity

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Al Capone’s nickname

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Scarface/Snorky

24
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Prohibition

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Began 18th and the 21st

25
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How did Al Capone start young

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Join the James Street gang
Johnny Terrio bootlegger

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Saint valentines Massacre

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Al Kapone and his game shot down bunks Moran’s game
dressed up as police officers in shot them against the wall

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Popular culture

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Culture of ordinary people

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Mass media

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Forms of communication
newspaper and radios
radios started broadcasting political information, news, sports, advertising
order through mail

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Talkie

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Movies with sound

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The first talkie

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The jazz singer

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First female in Congress 

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Jeanette Rankin

32
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Allow women to vote

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19th

33
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What did the 19th amendment do other than its main purpose

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Increased woman that went to college
more working women but they get less pay
housework easier

34
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What did flappers symbolize

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New liberated woman with new freedoms

35
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Harlem renaissance (when and what was it)

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(1920-1930)
AA create a great literature and art

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Lost generation

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Writers who questioned American ideals

37
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Fads/craze

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Crossword puzzle, kissing contests, goldfish gulping, Dance marathons, Miss America

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Blues

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Soulful style of music that evolved from African American spiritual usually with a themes of unfulfilled love, poverty, and oppression

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Jazz

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Mixture of blues in Ragtime with syncopated rhythms
Improvise elements
developed in New Orleans

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Louis Armstrong

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Trumpet player and jazz singer

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Duke Ellington

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Pianist and composer
(Well dressed)

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Bessie Smith

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Empress of the blues 

43
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Top three sports

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Baseball football and boxing

44
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Charles Lindbergh

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First alone transatlantic flight
Spirit of St. Louis
Took him 33 hours
Son gets kidnapped from home in New Jersey
Two months later body was discovered near home fracture to skull
Hauptmann was arrested and sentenced to death


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Babe Ruth

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Outfielder set records for home runs
nickname bambino
first Boston Red Sox pitcher
sold New York Yankees
known for charity and wreck less lifestyle

46
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Read Grange

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Football hero four touchdowns in 12 minutes

47
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J Dempsey 

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Boxers who set record

48
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Dorothy Lange

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Photojournalist
Focused on the depression

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NAACP

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National Association (of) Advancement (of) colored people 

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Langston Hughes

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First book of poetry at age 24
I too sing America 

51
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Zora Neale Hurston

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Dust tracks on a road

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James Weldon Johnson

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Song is lift every voice and sing (NAACP anthem)
Book: autobiography of an x colored man 
AA tried to escape racial discrimination

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