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What was the us ecomony like in the 20's? |
Us had the highest standard of living in the world |
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What helped to usher in a new age of leisure? |
Modern technology - electricity, washing machines, vacuums, refrigerators, radios, cars |
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What revolutionized the us society in the 20's |
Automobiles |
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What incentives did henry ford use to encourage his workers to learn english and refrain from gambling and drinking? |
Providing them with pay raises if they abided by his rules |
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What industry did the automotive industry replace as the king industry of the 20's? |
The steel industry |
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What grew along with the popularity of automobiles? |
Suburbs |
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What were some drawbacks of the growth of automobiles? |
Car accidents killed many people, home life was broken down when family members became more independent, crime went up |
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Who flew the first successful airplane in history? |
Orville and wilbur wright 1903 |
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Where did the first flight take place |
Kitty hawk, NC |
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what changes did the air plane bring about? |
Increased travel, airmail, societies became linked, railroads lost buisness |
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Discribes charles lindberghs flight |
From ny to paris in 39 hours and 39 minutes |
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What was the first radio station |
KDKA in pittsburg |
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What was the impact of the radio? |
Americans heard different accents, nation becane closely knit, news quickly spread |
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What was the first full length movie |
Birth of a nation |
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Who were some famous silent film stars? |
Charlie chapman and rudolph valentino |
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What was the first talkie? |
The jazz singer starring Al Joldon 1927 |
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How did movies shape American culture? |
Most popular form of entertainment, created hundreds of thousands of jobs |
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What were some economic weaknesses of the 20's |
Railroads declined, coal industry declined, farms suffered from over production and falling prices, black workers still faced discrimination |
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Were unions popular in the 20's? |
No |
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What federal aid progran provided for katernal and infant healthcare? |
The shappard towner act of 1921 |
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What feminists organization lobbied for full equality for women |
National womens party |
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Who led the nation womens party? |
Alice paul |
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Why did some women oppose an equal rights ammendment |
Afriad they would lose the right of the sheppard towner act of 1922 |
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Did the equal rights ammendment pass? |
No |
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What were women called that rebelled against the victorian morality and steriotypical behavior? |
Flappers |
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Who labeled the term flappers |
H. L. Mencken |
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Discribe flappers |
They had short hair , short skirts, danced, smoked in public and attacked double standards |
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What led to an increase in divorce? |
More liberal divorce laws (it made it easier to do so) |
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Why did family size decrease? |
Birth control was available |
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What term refers to more teen antering school than the workforce |
Prolonged adolescence |
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Who were sone famous athletes of the 20's? |
Bobby jones - golf, babe ruth - baseball. Jack dempsey - boxing, gertrude ederle - swimming, red grange - football |
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Who was the escape artist of the 20's? |
Harry houdini |
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What were some social crazes of the 20's? |
Shipwreck kelly, dance marathons |
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Who were the writers called that left the us for paris? |
The lost generation |
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Who coined the term "the lost generation" |
Gertrude Stein |
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Describe the lost generation |
They were disillusioned with the materialism of the us and complained of the lost innocence and purity of society |
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Name some of the lost generation |
Ernest hemmingway, gertrude stein, TS elliot, ezra pound |
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Name some writers that stayed in the us |
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, HL Mencken |
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What name was given to the collection if ny city music publidhers and songwriters of the late 19th century and the early 20th? |
Tin Pan Alley |
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what black american became the spokesperson for the us |
WEB du bois |
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What was the social and cultural black movement of the 20's |
The Harlem Renaissance |
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What was harlem called |
The negro capital of the world |
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Name some of the blac kn writers and poets |
Claude mckay, countee cullen, langston hughs and zora neale Hurston |
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Who led the black nationalism movement? |
Marcus Garvey |
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What did garvey reccomend black americans do since equality could not be attained? |
Return to africa |
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What organization did he form? |
The UNIA (united negro improvment association) 1914 |
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What did garveys successful convention elect him to become? |
The president of africa |
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What wad du bois' opinion of garvey? |
He called him "the most dangerous enemy of the negro race" |
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Why did garvey get arrested |
Mail fraud; used money from his other companies to help the black star line |
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What was the result of his trial |
5 year prison term |
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What happened to garvey un 1927 |
He was deported to jamaica |
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Advocating changes in societys institutions to reflect changing conditions? |
Liberal |
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What was the red scare |
Fear that socialism or communism would spread to the us |
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What was the year 1919 known for? |
Racial tension and multiple strikes |
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What strike (1919) hurt boston |
Police strike, 1117 officers |
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What did coolidge do in reaction to the police strike? |
Replaced all officers and gave into the demands |
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What did coolidge say regarding the police strike? |
"There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime." |
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Who led the united mine workers strike? |
John L. Lewis |
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Why did these strikes occur in 1919 |
Returning vets, unemployment, inflation rose |
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What impact did these strikes have upon the reputation of the unions? |
The public became anti-union |
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What occured june 2, 1919 that scared many americans |
Bombs went off in 8 different cities |
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Whose house was aldo bombed on this day? |
The attorney general mitchell palmer |
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Where did a powerful bombing go off in 1920 |
Wall street |
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What resulted from the wall street bombing? |
32 were killed and 200 were wounded |
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Who led a huge roundup of suspected communists in the us? |
Attorney general mitchell palmer |
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What were these raids called? |
The palmer raids |
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Who was palmers 24 yr old assiant who orgainized all the raids? |
J. Edgar Hoover |
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What new division if th3 justice department was Hoover put in charge of? |
FBI |
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How many were arrested during the palmer raids? |
10,000 |
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What was the soviet ark? |
In 1919, 249 aliens were deported to russia abord the buford |
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What announcement did palmer make that scared many people |
He said the communist upriding was to occur on may 1st 1920 |
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What happened on may day? |
Nothing |
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What did critics of palmer say in regards to may day |
He organized this scare for his presidential aspirations |
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What pair if italian anarchists were arrested in may 1920 |
Nicola sacco, bartolomeo vanzetti |
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What were sacco and vanzetti accused of? |
Robbery and murder |
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Why was the ssacco and vanzetti xase so controlversial? |
Judge ordered jury to find them guilty |
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What was the reult of the sacco vanezetti trial? |
Found guilty and electrocuted |
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What were results around the world? |
riots and protests |
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What two teenage boys attempted to xommit the perfect murder? |
Nathan leopold and richard leob |
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Who was the defense attorney |
Clarence darrow |
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What plea did darrow use for the forst time |
Insanity |
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Were leoold and loeb convicted |
Yes |
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What ammenment iinitiatied the prohibition of alcohol |
The 18th |
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What congressial act was passed to enforce prohibition |
The volstead act |
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What did prohibition lead to |
crime, bootleggers, speakeasies |
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What famous gangster in chicago created a black market for alcohol? |
Al capone |
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How much money did capone reportedlly make |
105 million |
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What was capone convicted of in 1931 |
Tax evasion |
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What ammendment appealed prohibition |
21st |
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Where was the kk reborn in 1915 |
Stone mountain, ga |
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What novie led to its resurgence |
Birth of a nation |
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The first kkk was anti black, what was this new version known for |
Anti black, jewish, catholic and alien |
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What were the different kkk orders? |
Womens order, junior order, tri-k |
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How long did the kkk remain prominent? |
Up until the end of the 20's |
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What did congress pass in 1917 to reduce immigration? |
Mandatory literacy test for all immigrants |
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What did cingress pasz in 1921 to further limit immigration |
Immigration act of 192q |
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What did the immigration act of 21 do |
Resteicted european immigration to 3% of all immigrants already in the us as of 1910 |
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What subsequent act did congress pass in 1924 |
The national origins act |
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Descrive the national origins act |
2% of immigration numbers from 1890 |
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Why was 1890 so important? |
Before jew wave of immigrants came |
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What immigrants were completelg banned by this act? |
Asians |
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How long would this strict quota last. |
Until 1965 |
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What law made teaching evolution illegal in tenessee |
The butler act |
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What group advertised for teachers to challenge this law |
ACLU |
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What does ACLU stand for |
American civil liberties union |
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What tenessee teacher was arressted for teaching evolution |
John scopes |
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What defense attorney was gired by the ACLU to defend scopes? |
Clarence darrow |
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Who was hired to argue for the prosecutor |
William jennings bryan |
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Was scopes found guilty |
Yes, fined $100 but the TN supreme court overturned it |
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Who died 4 days after the trial |
william jennings Bryan |
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What is this trial sometimes called? |
The scopes monkey trial |
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What party controlled the white house and congress in the 20's |
Republicans |
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Were most of these republicands TR or mckinley reps? |
Mckinley |
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Explain this |
More conservative and less progressive |
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Who won the electio of 1920 |
Warren G harding |
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What did his election mark the end of |
The progressive era |
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Were the Republicans in the 20s as conservative as the gilded age Republicans? Explain |
No, accepted limited amounts of government intervention |
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What was the most famous line from hardings speech? |
"Return to normalcy" (misresd normality) |
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Whi did harding surround himself with as president |
His poker playing friends from ohio |
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Who was hardings sec of state, commerce and treasury |
Charles evan hughes, herbert hoover, andree mellon |
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What was the economic strategy by mellon |
Trickle down economics (reduce taxes bring in more lower class workers) |
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Who did hardinf appoint as chief justice of the supreme court. |
William taft |
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Who did harding pardon in 1921 |
Eugene debs |
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Who was the female evangelist of 6he 1920s |
Aimer semple McPherson |
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Did republicand raise or lower tariffs fron the progressive underwood tariff |
Raised them 38% ( fordney-mcCumber tariff of 1922) |
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What was kardings administration known for |
Many scandals |
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Who was the secretary of the interior that accepted bribes in return for granting oil leases to companies? |
Albert Fall |
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What was the scandal known as |
Teapot dome scandal |
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Who was hardings attorney general? |
Harry daughterty |
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Why was he forced to resign? |
For not accepting bribes or prosecuting certain criminals |
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Was harding implicated in any of these scandals? |
No |
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2hat happened ti hardinfs as he was traveling in san fran in 1923 |
He had a heart attack and died |
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Who succeeded hardingin 1923 |
Calvin coolidge (silent cal) |
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was the 20s knwon for a time of peace or war |
Peace |
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Where did a major dissrmament confrence occure in 1921 |
Washington dc |
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Describe the five power treaty at this conference |
5-5-3 battleship ratio, us and britain have 5 battleships for every 3 japanese ships (italy and france could have 1.75) |
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How long would the construction if new battle ships be banned? |
10 years |
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What treaty was signed by 62 nationd in 1928 which promised not to use force |
The kellogg briand pact |
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What pledge was made by the sec of state in 1928 that the us would not intervene in latin american affairs? |
The clark memorandum |
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What did this kverturn |
The roosevelt corollary |
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Who won the elction of 1924 |
Calvin coolidge |
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What was coolidge famous for? |
Breaking boston police strike and for hid honesty and integrity |
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Who won the election if 1928? |
Hervert Hoover |
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When did Hoover first become nationally known |
When Wilson apointed him ss head of the food administration during ww1 |
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How did hoover make his fortune |
In mining |
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Who did hoover defeat in the eection of 1928 |
Alfred smith |
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What was unique about Smith |
First catholic canidate for president |
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What other facorts hurt smith in his election. |
His ny accent, poor grammar, his opposition to prohibition |
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Following ww1 who owned america $10 billion |
European allies |
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Eho owed the british and french $30 billion |
Germany |
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What was the gernan economy like? |
Bankrupt |
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What did american bankers create to alleviate this problem |
The dawes plan (creatrd by charles dawes) |
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Describe the dawes plan |
Us banks would loan germany money to pay britain and france and they would repay us |
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Did the dawes plan work? |
Yes, he won a nobel peace prize for it |
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What did charles dawes become in 1924 |
Coolidges VP |
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What plan to recontructure the dawes plan was adopted in 1930 |
The young plan - spread payment out over 58 and half years |
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What shape were us farmers during the 20s |
A depression hit farms hard in the 20s, 25% of them were sold to pay debt |
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What did coolidge say about buisness |
"The buisness of America is business" |
