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38 Cards in this Set
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red scare
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1910-1920
resulted in nationwide crusade against left-wingers whose Americanism was suspected; fears of communism breaking out in Russia |
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Mitchell Palmer
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attorney general; "fighting Quaker"; rounded up about 6000 suspects during red scare
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closed shops
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business people who used the red scare to break up unions; labors called for the "closed" or all union shops; employers had their own camplain for the "open" shop
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Ku Klux Klan
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against all groups except Anglo-Saxons, native americans, and protestants; uprising against forces of diversity and modernity that were transforming American culture; blazing cross, bloodied lash, and tar and feathers
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Nocola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
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Nacolo worked in a shoe factory and Bartolomeo was a fish-peddler; they were convicted of the 1921 murder of a Massachusetts paymater and his guard; 6 year case and they were eventually sentenced to death and electrocuted; there was too much prejudice during the trial
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Immigration Act of 1924
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replaced stopgap legislation of 1921; end of an era (period of unrestricted immigration that had brought 35 million immigrants to US)
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G-men
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government agents
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Al Capone
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"scarface"; murderer and alcohol distributor; 6 years of gang activity; couldn't be convicted of massacre on Feb. 14, 1929; served 11 years
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organized crime
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one of the nation's biggest businesses
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John Scopes
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high school biology teach that was fined and sent to court for teaching the Darwinist theory of evolution
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William Jennings Bryan
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member of the prosecution in the Scopes case; he took stand as an expert on the Bible; he died of a stroke 5 days after the trial ended
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Clarence Darrow
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criminal lawyer during Scopes case; made Bryan appear as a fool
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Andrew Mellon
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Treasurey Secretary; his tax policies favored the expansion of capital investment
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Jack Dempsey
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heaveyweight champion, his match in 1921 was the first million dollar sporting event
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Henry Ford
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inventor of 1st automobile (Model-T)
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Orville and Wilbur Wright
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1st to fly an airplane on December 17, 1903
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Charles Lindburgh
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1st person to fly solo across the Atlantic
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Al Jolson
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star of The Jazz Singer (1st movie with talking)
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Langston Hughes
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black poet from Harlem
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Marcus Garvey
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political leader who founded the United Negro Improvement Association which promoted the resettlement of American blacks in their own "American homeland"
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Warren Harding
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president of the US; wanted America to return to the way it was before the war
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Ohio Gang
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Harding's buddies from home; he gave them positions of importance
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Charles Evans Hughes
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secretary of state during Harding's presidency
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Herbert Hoover
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secretary of commerce; believed the regulation of industry held businesses and companies back; he supported the voluntary cooperation between governments and businesses
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Washington Naval Conferance
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1921 to 1922; invitations were sent to all major naval powers except Russia; multiple treaties evolved
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Pact of Paris (Kellogg-Briand Pact)
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allowed defensive wars, the US made a pact with the French; it gave a false sense of security
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Fordney-McCumber Tarriff
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1922, allowed higher tarriffs; President was allowed to reduce or increase the prices which caused European nations to create higher barriers
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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inovlved priceless naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming and Elk Hills, CA; Albert Fall had the secretary of the navy transfer the property to the Interior Dept.; Fall leased the land to Sinclari and Doheny after receiving bribes from them
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Calvin Coolidge
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vice presient under Harding, became president after Harding's death; "Silent Cal"; purposely gave the perception that he was not very active
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McNary-Haughen Bill
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1924-1928; supposed to give federal govt. power to set up prices and then buy all surplus and sell it overseas; it would stablize the prices; this bill was vetoed twice because it was unconstitutional and the farmers would just make more surplus
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John Davis
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wealthy lawyer; ran for president against Coolidge
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Alfred Smith
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four time governer of new york; ran for presient against Hoover as a democrat; was Catholic;
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Agricultural Marketing Act
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passed by Congress in June 1929; it was designed to help the farmers help themselves through producers' cooperatives; it set up the Federal Farm Board with a fund of half a billion dollars
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Hawley-Smoot Tarriff
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1930; started out inthe House as a protective measure that was designed to help farmers; by the time it pushed to the senate it had 1000 amendments; turned out to be the hightest protective tarriff in the nation's history; widened yawning trade gaps; plunged america and other nations deeper into depression, increase international financial chaos, and forced the US further into the bog of economic isolationism
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Reconstruction Finance Cooperation (RFC)
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working capital of half a billion dollars; became a govt. leading bank; designed to provide indirect relief by assisting insurance companies, banks, agricultural organizations, railroads, and state and local govt.
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Bonus Expeditionary Force
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about 20,000 people; set up unsanitary public camps and erected shacks on vacant lots (Hooverville); they created a menace to the public health while attemtping to intimidate Congress by their presence in force
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Stimson Doctrine
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1932 by Henry Stimson, secretary of state; decided to fire only paper bullets at Japanese aggressors; declared the US wouldn't recognize any territorial acquisitions achieved by force
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Good Neighbor Policy
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set up by Herbert Hoover; Hoover strode to abandon the interventionalist twist given to the Monroe Doctrine; made negotiations with foreign countries
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