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Elections of 1920s

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1920 Warren Harding
1924 Calvin Coolidge
1928 Herbert Hoover

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Remember

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Pro-business!

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Probussines

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-Fed gov = laissez faire
-Mellon recieved tax reductions from ‘21-‘26
-s court knocked down anti child labor laws
Adkins v Childrens hospital, reversed muller v oregon

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Remember

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Union membership declined 30%

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Fordney McCumber Tarriff Law

Hawley Smoot Tarriff

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raised tarriff rates

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Esch Cummings Transp Act of 1920

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Allowed for private consolidation of railroads and promise from ICC to respect their profitability

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Harlem Renaissance

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Writers, artists, intellectuals expressed black life never before seen in volume alone
Edu backgrounds included social sciences, anthropology, sociology
Twoness-legal and cultural limbo
Blacks/whites left to Europle to escape racism or escape materialistic onslaught

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Women in 1920s

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Did more outside home work but percent was low 20s
-white collar, female workers in most demand
Sexism: wifes earning not her own
Divorce laws favored men
Cant serve on juries
responsible for illegitimate births
Small voting turnout after 19th amendment

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Immigration Quotas

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Q of 1921 immigration limited to 3% of # of foreignborn persons of a nation counted in 1910 census
Q of 1924 2% based on 1890 census
Q of 1927 # for all asians n eastern/southern europeans limited to 150k all except Japanese

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What did KKK have to fo w immigration Q’s

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They supported bc it limited people from coming in

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Prosperity of 1920s

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-real wages increased 21% but corporate dividends went up 2/3
-rich 5% increased wealth from 1/4 to 1/3 n wealthiest 1% controlled 19% of all wealth
Economists thought income of 2k-4k was needed to live during ’20s but many made less than that
-number of millionaires increased 400%

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Herbert Hoover

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Won Election of 1928
Successful til late 1929 = economic distress
-crash of stock market=sign hard times for ’30s

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“The man nobody knows”

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Depicted Christ as founder of modern business

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Big business

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Grew from advertising, mergers, techn, sale of stock

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Warren Harding

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Won 1920 election Died 1923
Mourned hard
Admin was corrupt
Teapot Dome: albert fall sent to prison for takin money to lease federally owned land to oil companies

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Calvin coolidge

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Easily won 1924 election
Probusiness
Lowered taxes, especially corporate income taxes/personal incme txes

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What political party was dominating

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Republicans

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Colorado coal comp vs united mine workers

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Antilabor decision from S court that ruled that a striking union could be penalized for illegal restraint of trade

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Adkuns vs Childrens hospital (1923)

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Voided a minimum wage for women workers in the district of colombia
Reversed many gains achieved before wwi thru muller v Oregon
-decision helped cause labor unions to fall

20
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Welfare capitalism

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In place of unions
System of labor relations that stressed managements responsibility for employees well being
-henry ford pioneered

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Red scare

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American fears of socialism and communism post WW1
feared dangerous radicals were in country
Mail bombs sent to gov officials

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A mitchell palmer

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Bomb explosion outside house
Fanned public fears
Set up anti radicalism division in justice dept (fed bureau of investigation)
Deported many innocent aliens w anarchist/revolutionary beliefs

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Sheppard Towner Fed Maternity n Infancy Act

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Provided fed funds for medical clinics, prenatal educational programs, visiting nurses
-improved health care for poor
Lowered infant mortality rates
First time congress funded to encourage social welfare program

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Equal rights amendment

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Equal rights for men AND women in constitution
-some said it threatened labor laws protecting women from workplace conditions
Failed

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Womens international League got peace and freedom

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Leading member jane
Ignored by treaty makers
Denounced imperialism
Attacked under Red scare bc presence of socialist women

26
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Dollar diplomacy

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Loan guarantees and military interventions

27
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Great Migration

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Tripled NY black population
Harlem was promise land to negroes 
Harlem renaissance
Jazz spread to GM routes
South to north to mid western cities
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UNIA

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Urged followers back to Africa bc they would never have common destiny or part in politics

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What criticisms did modernist american writers offer

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People who experienced first hand shock of WW1

writers named them the Lost Generation

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Charles lindbergh

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First nonstop solo flight from ny to paris

31
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Harding corrupt admin

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Albert fall teapot dome
Thomas miller took bribes
Jess smith aide to gen daugherty
Charles forbes director of veterans bureau
Charles cramer aid to forbes
Gen Daugherty
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Associated state

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Hoover hope of voluntary business cooperation with government

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American civil liberties union

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Challenged laws constitutionality

Intervened scopes trial

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Scopes trial

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High school biology teacher John scopes taught evolution to class
Popular because Clarence Darrow famous criminal lawyer defended scopes
William Jennings Bryan Democratic candidates spoke for prosecution
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National origins act 1924

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Limited European immigration

also limited annual immigration from any countr to 2%

36
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Al smith

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Gov of ny

Lost to hoover 1928

37
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Louis Armstrong

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Famous jazz musician who learned craft in saloons brothels

solos inspired many

38
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Marcus Garvey

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Founded the Universal Negro improvement Association

Urged followers to move to Africa

39
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Pan Africanism

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Legacy that the UNIA left

People of african descent had common destiny and should cooperate in political action

40
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Authors of harlem ren

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Sinclair lewis
F scott fitz
Zora neale

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