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31 Cards in this Set
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Jazz Age |
A period of great change in American Society |
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Age of Prosperity |
Market demand. US farmers lost land post WW1 and farmers went into depression before everyone else |
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General Prosperity |
A. Worker productivity rose along with real wages B. Real wages and productivity weren't equal so neither was income and wealth |
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Income and wealth |
Capita income for 1% rose and capita income for the nation as a whole |
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1920s Business Boom |
Taylorism Money going to better production and increase worker productivity |
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1920s Business Boom: Worker productivity |
Wages rose |
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1920s Business Boom: Conspicuous Consumption |
"We wanted all the cool stuff out there" Trends |
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1920s Business Boom: Deregulation |
Gov. stayed out of the way of business |
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1920s Business Boom: Federal government |
-High protective taxes -Reducing corporate and personal income taxes, and creating loopholes for big businesses |
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Al Capone |
Notorious anti prohibitionist |
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Harlem renaissance |
Blacks move north during wartime and began to flourish the community with whites |
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Scopes Trail |
Teacher is sued for teaching evolution |
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Eliot Ness |
Former FBI agent. The article |
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Great migration |
When the blacks went north |
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President Coolidge |
Foreign policy. Created protective tariffs |
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Flapper |
Redefined woman in the 20s |
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Palmer raids and Red Scare |
Tried to stop anarchism and communism by raiding 48 cities |
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Sacco and Vanzetti |
Italian anarchists who robbed and killed a paymaster. Judge helped indict and they were executed |
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Fundamentalism |
Ultra conservative reaction to drastic changes in society |
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Harding |
Died in office, series of scandals |
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African Fundamentalism: Marcus Garvey + UNIA |
Tried to united people of African decent economically "Back to Africa Movement" |
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The 1920s: Fiction of Prosperity |
General Prosperity Income and wealth Consumer credit Economic concentration Agriculture |
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Harding Administration Scandals: Ohio Gang |
Members of the Ohio Gang were appointed cabinet positions |
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Harding Administration Scandals: Harry Daugherty |
Attorney general, while in office owned stock that overcharged the govt. |
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Harding Administration Scandals: Jesse Smith |
Selling permits for liquor sales |
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Harding Administration Scandals: Charles Forbes |
Working for veterans bureau and caught giving insider info to companies seeking bids for hospitals |
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Harding Administration Scandals: Teapot Dome |
Teapot Dome oil reserve in Wyoming. Albert Fall, guilty of selling drilling rights to companies |
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Demobilization |
Bringing 4 million veterans into the workforce not occupied by white males |
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Eugene Debs |
Socialist, violated the Sedition Act |
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Normalcy |
Back to way things were. Stability |
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WEB DuBois |
Returning black soliders |
