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55 Cards in this Set
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A Micheal Palmer |
Attorney General of the United States from 1919 to 1921. He is best known for overseeing the Palmer Raids during the Red Scare of 1919–20. |
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Emergency Quota Act of 1921 |
based on 1910 census, limited amount of immigrants into America, excluding Canada and Mexico no Japanese |
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Immigration Act of 1924 |
based on 1890 census, was a United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people No Japanese |
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Horace Kallen and Randolph Bourne |
defender of rights for immigrants, wanted a change in policy 1915s |
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18th Amendment |
bans sale, moving and moving of alcohol |
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John Dewey |
convinced Americans that education was needed, science was introduced, Americans need learning 1930s |
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Progressive education |
branch out of religion, Darwin theory taught |
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Fundamentalism education |
not Darwin theory (illegal), religiously based |
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Monkey trial |
May 1925 John Scopes tried to teach Darwin theory, got caught, plead guilty, and trial was still held. ACLU defendant vs William Jennings Brian |
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Frederick W. Taylor |
Inventor, produces assembly line idea 1910 |
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Henry Ford |
puts assembly line into use, makes standardize products 1925ish |
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Guglielmo Marconi |
Italian inventor, wireless transmission 1909 won noble piece prize |
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Warren G Harding |
didnt want to hurt peopls feelings Ohio gang created (best minds of Aermica) 1921 |
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Adkins v Childrens Hospital |
1923 returns control of RxR to previous owners, encouraged the creation of strong singular RxR companies |
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Merchant Marine act |
1920 allowed gov shipping board to sell off excess ships 1500 sold at low prices |
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Five-power Naval Treaty |
1921 limits the navy of several nations, non confrontational trading. each have a certain number of ships 5 for each (Japan 3) |
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Kellog-Briand Pact (Pact of Paris) |
attempt to make war a last ditch effort 1928 |
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McCumber Tariff Law |
more American made sold in America to prevent outside intervention |
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High Tariff Course |
move into the 20's with high tariff dissallowing Europe countries to trade and sell |
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Charles Forbes |
collected tax or veterans bt take 200 million for himself |
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teapot dome |
Granted Harry Sinclair exclusive rights to the oil in Wyoming and sold off arts to people who bribe April 1922 |
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Attorney general Daugherty |
sold pardons to criminals, medicinal alcohol |
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Calvin Coolidge |
Hardings vice pres. Takes over after harding dies in 1923 status quo, hands off, took vacation |
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Capper-Volstead Act |
feb 18 1922 allowing farmers exemptions from anti trust laws |
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Dawes Plan |
1924 constructed payment to France and GB by loaning money to Germany to pay back to them tho pay us back |
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Reconstruction Finance Corperation |
1932 500 millin major lending bank to provide relief |
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Norris -La Guardia Anti injunction Act |
1932 help labor unions "yellow Dog" contract (never join a labor union) were outlawed, allowed fed gov to be influential in boycotts |
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Japanese manchuira |
Sept 1931 decided they wants to be a major power and takes over South East China. LON did not interfere |
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Sec of state Henry stimson and fire bullets |
declares US would not recognize any land that Japanese take over, boycotts and no affect of Japan |
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Herbert Hoover second election |
second time to run, declares doomsday if people choose somebody different, loses many voters |
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FDR |
1932 Bank Holiday !st 100 days The 3 Rs (Reform, recover relief) fire side chats Elenore |
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Glass- Steagall Reform Act |
1933 help banking, FDIC ensures people 5000 if bank closes |
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Civilian Conservation Corp |
1933 through 1942 way to deal with unemployment 18-25 year olds can work in camps to help with natural disaster and take care of nature sends 25% of earnings home |
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Fed Emercency Relief agancy |
run by Harry hopkins gives out wages to agencies to construct libraries 1933 |
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Agriculteral Adjustment act |
reduced farmers to grow and could not on certain lands 1933 |
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Civil Work Administration |
temperary jobs, random 2 day jobs 1933 |
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critics of FDR |
charles coughlin- more done Sen Huey P Long-handouts Francis E townsen-elderly |
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Works Progress Admin |
1933 largest, building projects to employ |
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Nation Recovery admin |
1933 long term relief, stoped child labor, no yellow dog contracts, right to organize |
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Public Works Admin |
1933 large, construction projects, Grand Coolee Dam |
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Light Repeal of Pohibition |
alloed to create more jobs, low alcohol content |
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Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act |
1936 save lands, plant soil conserve crops , soy beans prominate |
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2nd AAA |
made payments to farmers, declared more constitutional\ |
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Indian Reorginiation Act |
1934 Collier affairs local sefl government to tribes t reassert themselves |
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Truth in Securites Act |
made people inform the true price of stocks 1933 |
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TVA |
Tennasee valey authority wanted to prevent overcharging of electricity
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Wagner or National Relations Act |
1935 collective bargining strenghthen relationship between employee and employer |
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John L Lewis and Labor Unios |
CIO, divide smaller unions that represented more change |
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Memorial Day Massacre |
peaceful protest in Chicago turns violent 1937 |
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Fair Labor Standard act |
elsablished minimum wages, child labor and work hours to be shortened |
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Alfred M Lanson |
attacked radial Roosevelt ideas and over stepping bounds, attacked experimentation and wasteful money |
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20th Amendment |
shortened lame duck period to six weeks 1933 |
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john Maynard Keyes |
British stated it was govs responsibitity to even overspend to take care of the people, spend more and worry later (FDR followed) |
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REorginization Act |
1939, more power to pres more money to spend |
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Hatch Act |
1939 cannot use fed money to campaign |
