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67 Cards in this Set
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"Fighting Quaker"
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Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
active in the Red Scare arrested suspected communists |
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Nicola Sacco and Barolomeo Vanzetti
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convicted of murdering Mass paymaster and his guard.
Italians, atheists, anarchists, draft dodgers |
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KKK was these 12 things (they be sippin' haterade)
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-anti-foreign
-anti-Catholic -anti-black -anti-Jewish -anti-pacifist -anti-Communist -anti-internationalist -anti-bootlegger -anti-gambling -anti-adultery -anti-birth control |
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WASP
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White Anglo Saxon Protestant
KKK was pro-WASP |
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New Immigrants
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Southeastern European
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Emergency Quota Act of 1921
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Immigrants restricted to 3% quota.
Favored Slavs/southeastern Europeans Succeeded by Immigration Act of 1924 |
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Immigration Act of 1924
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Preceded by Emergency Quota Act of 1921
Cut the quota to 2% and allowed more Old immigrants (vs. New) and turned Japanese immigrants away |
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18th Amendment
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Prohibition
popular in midwest and south |
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Gang Wars
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Chicago in 1920s. Prostitution, gambling, narcotics.
500 murdered Scarface/Al Capone & St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Jailed for tax evasion. |
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Charles Lindbergh
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1st person to fly solo across Atlantic
NY to Paris Spirit of St. Louis son was kidnapped by gangsters |
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Lindbergh Law
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Death penalty to certain cases of interstate abduction (after Charles Lindbergh's son kidnapped by gangsters)
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John Dewey
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Columbia Univ. professor
"Learning by doing" "Edu. for life" states placed min. age for teens to stay in school |
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Rockerfeller Foundation
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health care program eliminated hookworm in south
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Scopes Monkey Trial
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John Scopes (TN teacher) charged w. teaching evolution.
Attorn. Clarence Darrow vs. William Jennings Bryan |
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William Jennings Bryan
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against Scopes/evolution in Scopes Monkey Trial.
Defeated by attorn. Clarence Darrow |
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Andrew Mellons
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Sec. of Treasury; favored rapid expansion of capital investment
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Rouge River Plant
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Henry Ford's plant; assembly-line
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The Man Nobody Knows
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written by Bruce Barton
Jesus = perfect salesperson |
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Bruce Barton
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wrote The Man Nobody Knows
Jesus = perfect salesperson |
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Debt accumulated b/c people bought (2)
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1. On the installment plan
2. On credit |
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Ransom E. Olds
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Famous for Oldsmobile
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1929, how many cars per person
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1 car for every 4.9 people
Ford Model T was cheap & easy to own |
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Orville and Wilbur Wright
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flew 1st airplane for 12 secs. in Kittyhawk, NC
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1st transcontinental airmail route
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NY to San Fran
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Guglielmo Marconi
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wireless telegraphy
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KDKA
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first voice carrying radio station
announced President Harding's victory |
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Thomas Edison
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invented the movie
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First movie
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The Great Train Robbery
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First full length feature
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DW Griffith's the Birth of a Nation
glorified KKK |
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First movie with sound
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The Jazz Singer w. Al Jolson
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Birth control movement
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Led by Margaret Sanger and National Women's Party worked towards Equal Rights Amendment
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Margaret Sanger
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birth control movement
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Modernists
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Opposite of traditional/fundamentalists
God was good and universe was a nice place |
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Flaming youth
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flappers
danced the risque Charleston dressed provocatively |
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Jazz musicians
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WC Handy, Jelly Roll Morton, Joseph King Oliver
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Langston Hughes
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Harlem Renaissance, the Weary Blues
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Marcus Garvey
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founder of United Negro Improvement Assoc. and inspired the Nation of Islam
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the Lost Generation
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young folks ruined by WWI
dealt with in writings of Ernest Hemingway |
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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architect, followed Louis Sullivan
form follows function |
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Harding's Cabinet
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sec of state: Hughes
sec of commerce: Hoover sec of treasury: Mellon sec of interior: Albert Fall attorney gen: Harry Daugherty |
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Adkins v. Children's Hospital
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reversed Muller v.Ogden
Invalidated minimum wage law for women |
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Merchant Marine Act
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authorized Shipping Board
reduced navy size |
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Railway Labor Board
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12% wage cut
Labor membership also shrank by 30% |
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Adjusted Compensation Act
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gave veterans a paid up insurance policy due in 20 yrs
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Washington Disarmament Conference (1921-22)
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5:5:3 ratio of US, Brit, Japanese ships
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5 Power Naval treaty
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Ship ratios +Japanese compensated
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4 Power Naval treaty
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Brit, Jap, Fr, US preserve status quo in Pacific (replaced Anglo-Jap Alliance)
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9 Power Naval treaty
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Open door in China
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Kellog-Briand pact
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Coolidge's Sec of state Kellog won Nobel Peace Prize
Nations signed no longer use war offensively |
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Fordney-McCumber Tariff Law
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raised tariff from 27% to 35%
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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Albert Fall (sec of interior) received bribes from oilmen Sinclair and Doheny for land in WY and CA
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Capper-Volstead Act
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exempted farmers' marketing cooperatives from anti-trust prosecution
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McNary-Haugen Bill
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keep agricultural prices high by authorizing govt to sell surpluses abroad
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Election of 1924
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Coolidge (R) vs. John W. Davis (D) vs. Robert LaFollette (Progressive)
Democrats voted by one vote NOT to condemn KKK Coolidge won |
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US troops in Latin America
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-pulled out of Dominican Repub
-stayed in Haiti -pulled out of Nicaragua then went backin |
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Dawes Plan
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rescheduled German reparation payments to Brit & Fr and gave Ger. private US loans
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Rugged Individualism
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Hoover's policy in election of 1928 (vs.Smith)
strong, self-sufficient Americans |
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Alfred E. Smith
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NY governor who opposed Hoover's Rugged Individualism
scandalous lost to Hoover in election |
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Agricultural Marketing Act
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created Fed. Farm Board and Grain/Cotton Stabilization Corp.
Hoover trying to help farmers |
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930
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raised tariff to 60%!
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Causes of Great Depression
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-1929 stock market crash
-over-speculation -high stock prices -overabundance of farm/factory products (Supply > demand) -over-expansion of credit -drought in Miss. R. valley |
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Hoover Dam
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Hoover withdrew $ to start projects to alleviate depression
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Muscle Shoals Bill
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dam TN River but Hoover vetoed
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Reconstruction Finance Corp
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govt lending bank
away from laissez faire towards Democrats |
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Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injection Act
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outlawed anti-union contracts
forbade fed courts to used injunctions to restrain strikes, boycotts, etc. |
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Bonus Expeditionary Force
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veterans marched/camped in Washington DC to demand compensation for WWI
unsanitary |
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Japan invades...
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Manchuria. Shuts the open door.
later bomb shanghai |
