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Andrew Carnegie |
Creator of steel monopoly- he did this by using vertical integration |
Vertical integration- process where one buys out all suppliers in order to control all aspects. |
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Joseph pulitzer |
Man who introduced the techniques of yellow journalism to the newspapers |
There's a prize named after him |
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Jane addams |
A leader in the social gospel movement who found settlement house for immigrants called the hull house |
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Langston Hughes |
African American writer, poet, activist, and playwright who helped with the innovation of jazz poetry |
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John Steinbeck |
Author of the Grapes of Wrath |
He also wrote of mice and men |
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Sacco and Vanzetti |
American anarchists who were convicted of murdering a guard and paymaster During a armed robbery. They never received a fair trial and were executed by way of the electric chair seven years later. |
Anarchists- believe there should be no government |
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Herbert Hoover |
President from end of prosperity to beginning of the Great Depression. Wasn't that bad of a president but was ruthlessly ridiculed and had things coined with his name. |
He served for one term |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
President through the Great Depression and World War 2. His plan for his presidency was thought of as a new deal for the American people and therefore was coined "The New Deal" |
He served four terms People often think of him as a model president. |
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Charles Lindberg |
He made the first solo nonstop trip across the Atlantic Ocean |
Date:May 20-21, 1927 |
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James Weldon Johnson |
Civil rights activist who worked with the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) |
Year:1917 |
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Frances Perkins |
Americas first female cabinet member |
She served from 1933 to 1945 alongside FDR |
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Eleanor Roosevelt |
Social activist who helped with the progression of women in important political positions, and the youth of America. |
First Lady from 1933-1945. (4 terms) |
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Urban Sprawl |
Caused by the industrialization of cities-which meant an opportunity for success for a lot of people-, and the invention of automobiles. |
Occurred in the 1920s |
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Teapot Dome Scandel |
A member of Warren G. Hardings cabinet accepted bribes/ leased Navy Petroleum reserves at the Teapot Dome to private oil companies. |
The cabinet member was Albert B. Fall( and fall he did). This occurred in 1921-1922 |
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Anti communist propaganda |
It basically wanted this message to be spread - Communists and Communism are bad Socialists and socialism is good |
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Clash of values |
Some people believed that the new ways of life such as of the flapper was compromising traditional values |
Occurred in 1920s |
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Prohibition |
Ban of production, sale, or distribution of alcoholic beverages that occurred from 1920 until 1933 |
Led to speakeasies and bootleggers |
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The lost generation |
Writers who left the U.S. to partake in other literary cultures such as that of Paris of London. |
Writers include F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and T. S. Elliot |
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The Harlem Renaissance |
Cultural explosion in black communities. A time when people really embraced their heritage. |
Occurred from the 1920s to the 1930s |
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The Great Migration |
When over a million African Americans migrated away from southern states |
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NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) |
Civil rights organization that fought for the betterment of colored people and they fought against lynching, Jim Crow laws, and Predjudice |
W.E.B. Dubois was a founder |
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The Bonus Army |
WW1 Veterans who wanted their bonuses then instead of waiting until 1945 |
They camped out in "Hoovervilles" in front of the White House |
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The Dust Bowl & its Impact |
Period of severe dust storms in the southwest during the 1930s. Cause: severe drought, poor farming practices, and wind erosion along with the economic depression. It brought along with it "okies"- people who migrated to California from the southwest. it also worsened the already failing economy. |
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New deal goals |
Relief for the needy Economic recovery Financial reform |
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Causes of the Great Depression |
War debt and Increased tariffs decreased the American market, crisis in the farming sector, easy availability of credit, and the stock market crash |
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Grapes of Wrath |
A historical fiction book about life in the 1930s during the Great Depression. It tells the tale of a families travels from Oklahoma to California the supposed land of dreams. |
Author is John Steinbeck |
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Direct Relief |
Money or food given directly from the government to the needy |
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New Deal Programs found Unconstitutional |
The NIRA (National Industry Recovery Act) and the AAA ( Agricultural Adjustment Act) |
These programs were later passed after changes were made |
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A. Mitchell Palmer |
Attorney general- rounded up suspected communists during the red scare |
1920s |
