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25 Cards in this Set
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What 3 things represented a return to laissez-fare economics?
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1. sky high tariff (Holly-smoot Tariff Act)
2. reduced taxes on the wealthy 3. strong belief in trickle down economics |
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What was an example of laissez-fare and no government intervention?
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Coolidge vetoing the Mcnary-Haugen Bill twice
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what was Harding's "return to normalcy? and what was it spun from
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1. return to laiseez-fare economics
2. Isolationism came after WWI and Wilson's league of nations...Harding felt the country was too divided |
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What was Hoover's characterized as
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rugged individualism and that business has a social obligation...strong belief in volunteerism (similiar to Carnegie)
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What was wrong with Hoover's ideas?
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Volunteerism was an insufficient response to the great economic crisis. Along with this he kept demanding that European nations repay their loans and kept tariffs high.
About 3 years into the depression Hoover realizes his policies don't work |
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What did Hoover do when he realized his policies didn't work?
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He created RFC which provided milliions in subsidies (massive government aid)...this was carried throughout the New Deal
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What were the 3 big Isolationist things
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1. Washington Naval Conference (4,5,9 power conference)
2. Kellogg-Briand Pact--bans war 3. Dawes--gave money to Europe to rebuild after the war...shows global dominance |
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What does the Kellogg-Briand Pact show America
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that America can no longer just ignore the rest of the world and stay isolated in the western hemisphere...it shows their global dominance
We try, but we can't break free and we need to isolate ourselves |
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What court case upheadl Nativist laws
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Ozawa v. US 1922
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What 2 pieces of legislation went against immigration
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Natural Origins Act restricts immigration
Immigration Act of 1921 (note this was a continuation of progressivism) |
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what rose during this time period that sucks
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the KKK ...connect to Birth of Nation from 1915
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What was the opposition to the KKK
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the Back to Africa movement whcih was the first black urban movement that was able to seize upon the population shift
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What can you connect the urban movement to
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the flourishing african american culture coming out of new york
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Who was Marcus Garvey
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he started the United Negro Improvement Associatoin
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Scopes monkey trial?
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highlighted modernism v. fundamentalism
despite scopes losing, it brings light to evolution vs. bliblical judgement |
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who were challenging sexual mores
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flappers and teenagers
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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wrote about coming to grips with the consumer culture
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prohibition
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creates more problems than it solves
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what were examples of standardization of culture
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--cares (Model T)
--radio "Amos and Andy" (everyone woudl listen to the same programs) --celebrity endorsements, advertisements --massive amount of credit (which would lead to the great depression) |
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what changed about the frontier
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it was now something one coudl enjoy, no longer a place to challenge people but for interset
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what helped lead to a false sense of reality
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all movies tended to have similiar endings of "happily ever after"
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what did the 19th amendment do to change stuff
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not much, it doesnt' really affect election results
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what did the League of Women voters do?
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they got people out of voting in saloons and moved to churches and schools
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what was the sheppard towner materinity act
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provided birth control to women in rural areas who didn't have similar medical care..the AMA didn't want this
(another example of modernism v. fundamentalism) |
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what happened to the Equal Rights Amendment
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falls by the wayside when 3/4 of states refuse to ratify
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