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Back to Normalcy
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"A return to normalcy" (i.e. a return to the way of life before World War I) was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding’s campaign promise in the election of 1920.
Sign - show how people were tired of the last war of Wooden Willison Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/normalcy-1#ixzz1rvZ5vnbO |
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18th Amendment
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Legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages. In the U.S., the Prohibition movement arose out of the religious revivalism of the 1820s.
More crime, rise of organize crime, "Jake foot" corruption in politics. Sign - Give the image that the U.S. was a haven for crime. Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/prohibition#ixzz1rvaxurTu |
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Flapper Girls
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A young woman, especially one in the 1920s who showed disdain for conventional dress and behavior.
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/flapper#ixzz1rvbrycXS Sign - show how women change over the 19th amendment |
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Trade Associations
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Who - Hoover
What - A meeting of group of business people in the same trade or industry organized for the advancement of common interests Why - For the good of the Nation. Sign - End result was it give rise in prices, hurt people. Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/industry-trade-group#ixzz1rvcLNiZm |
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Buying on Margin
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What- Margin buying is buying securities with cash borrowed from a broker, using other securities as collateral, stocks.
Who - 16% of the people of U.S Sign - one of the cause of the Great Depression. Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/margin-finance#ixzz1rvdCn9Gw |
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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Who - Hoover
What- U.S. government agency established (1932) to provide loans to railroads, banks, and businesses. When - During the Great Depression Sign- The most Hoover will do as relief. and show how much he believe that business will solve the problem. Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/reconstruction-finance-corporation#ixzz1rveH1Fy4 |
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Smoot - Hawley Tariff
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Who Smoot and Hawley
What - the USA's main goal emerged to protect American jobs and farmers from foreign competition which increased tariffs on foreign imports. Sign - Hurting more then helping. Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/smoot-hawley-tariff-act#ixzz1rvgyYACZ |
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Bonus Expeditionary Force
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What - World War I veterans who gathered in Washington, D.C. to demand payment of their promised bonuses. When the bill was defeated, most of the crowd returned home, but some angry protests caused local authorities to ask Pres. Herbert Hoover for federal assistance. Army troops led by Gen. Douglas MacArthur drove out the protesters and burned their camps. The resulting public outcry was a factor in Hoover's defeat in the 1932 election. Another group of veterans gathered in 1933, but Congress again rejected bonus legislation. In 1936 Congress finally enacted a bill that paid nearly $2 billion in veterans' benefits.
Who - Hoover and MacArthur Sign - show how badly Hoover deals with events and ended him costing the election. Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/bonus-army#ixzz1rvhuG8Ob |
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Tennessee Valley Authority
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What - U.S. government agency established in 1933 by the New Deal to control floods, improve navigation, and generate electrical power along the Tennessee River and its tributaries.
Who - FDR Sign - First time Government went against privet industrial system. Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/tennessee-valley-authority#ixzz1rvivTwm6 |
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American Liberty League
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Who - Upper class whites, the Duponts and their corporate allies
What - A League the oppose the New Deal calming it was destroying Liberty and was against the system. Sign - The league was seen as a group that could not understand the problems of the middle class, FDR gain support by not supporting them. |
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Emergency Banking Act
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Who - FDR
What - four days after FDR declared a nationwide bank holiday, combined with the Federal Reserve’s commitment to supply unlimited amounts of currency to reopened banks, this was done to check banks that could be save. Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/emergency-banking-act#ixzz1rvng9HOa Fun Fact -The sense of urgency was such that the act was passed with only a single copy available on the floor and most legislators voted on it without reading it Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/emergency-banking-act#ixzz1rvmT9xdE |
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Civilian Conservation Corps
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Who -FDR
What - U.S. unemployment program. One of the earliest New Deal programs, it was established to relieve unemployment during the Great Depression by providing national conservation work primarily for young unmarried men. Recruits lived in semimilitary work camps and received $30 a month as well as food and medical care. Sign- How things were that they had to do anything for money, racking leafs. Not planed. Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/civilian-conservation-corps#ixzz1rvo9cOus |
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Works Progress Administration
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Who - FDR
What- U.S. work program for the unemployed. Created in 1935 under the New Deal, it aimed to stimulate the economy during the Great Depression and preserve the skills and self-respect of unemployed persons by providing them useful work. During its existence, it employed 8.5 million people in the construction. The WPA also administered the WPA Federal Art Project, the Theater Project, and the Writers' Project. Sign - help unemployed - build dams - was more planed then the CWA Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/works-progress-administration#ixzz1rw9W1gKs |
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Public Works Administration
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What - U.S. government agency (193339). It was established as part of the New Deal to reduce unemployment through the construction of highways and public buildings. Authorized by the National Industrial Recovery Act (1933) and administered by Harold Ickes, it spent about $4 billion to build schools, courthouses, city halls, public-health facilities, and roads, bridges, dams, and subways. It was gradually dismantled as the country moved to a military-industrial economy during World War II.
Sign - most support - build big projects - help improve areas Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/public-works-administration#ixzz1rwCRWN1B |
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Social Security Act
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Who and What -Franklin D. Roosevelt established a committee on economic security (1934), which recommended legislative action to the U.S. Congress. The act provided old-age benefits to be financed by a payroll tax on employers and employees. The system was later expanded to include dependents, the disabled, and others.
Sign - the same system we used today Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/social-security-act#ixzz1rwE29x00 |
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Judiciary Reorganization Bill
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Who - FDR
What -a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/judiciary-reorganization-bill-of-1937#ixzz1rwEUdubu Why -the bill would have granted the President power to appoint an additional Justice to the U.S. Supreme Court, up to a maximum of six, for every sitting member over the age of 70 years and 6 months, therefore giving FDR the support he needs. Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/judiciary-reorganization-bill-of-1937#ixzz1rwEbilcx Sign - Short theme - 19th and New Deal Support Long theme - mark the end of the New deal and loss support of the Nation |
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Fair Labor Standards Act
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Who -FDR
What- Act enacted in 1938 that applies to workers involved in interstate commerce. It sets standards with respect to working conditions, including such aspects as minimum wage and working hours. It has been periodically amended and adjusted to keep the standards relevant to the current working environment. Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/fair-labor-standards-act#ixzz1rwFCtvLC Sign - Same standards we used today - set min wage and max hours - age limits |