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38 Cards in this Set
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Sources of the Economic boom of the 1920's
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-Post WWI, America was one of the only healthy industrialists
-Assembly line was discovered |
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the Radio (important facts)
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-most families built there own
-almost every family had one in 1920's -Modulation theory developed by Reginald Fessenden |
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Early computers
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-First analog computer created by Vannevar Bush
-Howard Aiken built more complicated version a few years after |
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Administrative Systems
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-made companies easy to manage
-expands company and uses divisional organization to control subsidaries |
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Trade Assosciations
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-lowered competition in mass production industries
-national organization created to encourage coordination in production and marketing techniques |
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"Welfare Capitialism"
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-Employer's adopted paternalistic techniques to better the work place
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"Pink Collar Jobs"
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-the percent of women in the workforce during the 1920's increased
-they were typically service, low paying jobs-- secretary, operators, etc |
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A. Phillip Randolph
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-founded Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
-vigorous, African American union that represented the blacks of America |
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Mechanized Farming
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-number of tractors quadrupled, opened 35 million acres to cultivation
-pesticides and chemical fertilizers begin to be used |
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Parity
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-people who supported high tariffs on foreign agricultural products and wanted the government to buy America's surplus and sell abroad
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McNary-Hangen Bill
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legislative bill for "parity"
passed by congress for grain/cotton/tobacco/rice, but Coolidge vetoed it |
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Social Impact of the Automobile
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-created social lives, no longer isolated on farms
-increased suburban population due to the ease of transportation |
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The Man Nobody Knows
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-one of most successful books of 1920's
-portrayed Jesus Christ as a prophet and "super-salesmen" |
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Magazines
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-Advertising was huge through magazines
-readers digest and time became popular during this time |
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Hollywood
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-Movies became very popular
-most of the movie stars/comedians in hollywood were corrupt -Will Hays was given an operation to "clean up" hollywood |
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Harry Emerson Fordick
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most influential spokesperson for liberal Protestantism.
-wrote the book Abundant Religion in 1926 |
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Limited opportunities for women
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-women had limited professional opportunities
-most men AND women thought women should stick to feminine jobs, like fashion |
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companionate marriages
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-women saw their role in marriage as a companion
-they became more involved in their husbands social lives |
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Birth Control
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-Margaret Sanger was the pioneer of the movement
-believed large families were the cause of poverty |
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Sheppard-Towner Act
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-Controversial bill
-Sanger said it would discourage birth control -Alice Paul opposed saying it classified women as mothers -American Medical Assosciation didnt want new people to come to the healthcare field |
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Youth culture
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-importance of education was discovered
-schools encouraged adolescents to become individuals, define their own social patterns |
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Charles Lindbergh
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-first aviator making a solo flight across Atlantic Ocean
-represents beliefs and hopes of the time period- he rose from an average man to be an extraordinary one |
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H.L. Mencken
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Baltimore Jounalist
-a "debunker" - ridiculed everything about middle class lifestyle of Americans |
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Rejecting success
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-intellectuals of 1920's rejected material success
-most moved to other countries to try to get away from "material successes" |
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Charles and Mary Beard
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-Most influential Historians of the time
-emphasized clash of economic interests |
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African American Pride
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-Langston Hughes advocated pride for blacks in his poems
-1925, "the New Negro" -this was a collection of black writings assembled by Alain Locke |
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The Fugitives
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-small group of novelists/poets of Vanderbilt University
-critics of industrialist society |
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Failure of Prohibition
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-significantly reduced drinking in some regions
-only 1500 agents nationwide were used to enforce the law, with little help from police |
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Alcohol and Organized crime
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-Al Capone built a criminal empire based on illegal alcohol
-many people bootlegged alcohol illegally, and most who supported prohibition quickly changed their minds |
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National Origins Act of 1924
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-Law that cut immigration from 800,000 to 300,000 per year
-specifically targeted Japanese -nativists and the Klan pushed for this law |
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The New Klan
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-1915, huge nativist passions swelled in Georgia
-Jewish factory manager proved to have murdered an employee -defended "traditional values" - values of pre-Civil War white southerners |
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David Stephenson
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Head of Indiana Klan
-kidnapped and raped a young woman -by 1930, most of the Klan had completely dissipated |
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Scoper Monkey Trial
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-TN passed law saying no teacher could teach creation other than the way of the bible
-John T. Scopes did not follow this evangelical law, and went to court. -he was fined 100 $, but the case was dropped eventually |
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Al Smith
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-Dem candidate for Pres
-first time since Civil War that dem didnt receive all of the south's votes -unable to unit Dem because of anti-catholic sentiment in south |
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Teapot Dome
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-President Harding appointed men who helped him gain political success
-rich oil reserves of the navy were in Teapot Dome -an appointment, Fall, urged Harding to move these funds to the Interior Dept, and Fall leased them to wealthy businessmen |
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Calvin Coolidge
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-passive approach in office
-did not run for a second term -puritanical, silent person |
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Andrew Mellon
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-Secretary of Treasury- steel and aluminum tycoon
-worked with Coolidge on federal budget -worked for reductions for taxes on corporate profits, inheritances, and personal income |
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Hoover's Associationalism
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-concept of business that wanted to create national organizations of businessmen in diff industries
-believed it would stabilize industry -progressives were encouraged when Hoover was elected |
