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27 Cards in this Set
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Presidents During the Era
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Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, and Franklin Roosevelt
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Return to Normalcy
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• After World War I, President Harding wanted the Americans to return to their normal lives. The economy and business were planned to be put "back on track."
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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Albert Fall, the Secretary of the Interior, leased government owned oil farms to companies. Fall was found guilty and fined $100,000 in 1929. It led people to become weary about the government.
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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It was an agreement to outlaw war signed on August 27, 1928.
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Dawes Plan
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It was an attempt following World War I for the Allies to collect war reparations debt from Germany.
Main points: 1. The Ruhr area was to be evacuated by Allied occupation troops. 2. Reparation payments would begin at “one million marks the first year, increasing to two and a half million marks annually after five years" (Merrill 93) 3. The German Reichsbank would be reorganized under Allied supervision. 4. The sources for the reparation money would include transportation, excise, and custom taxes. |
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Traditionalists
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people who adhere to tradition, especially in cultural or religious practice.
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Modernists
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people who believed in modern thought, character, or practice.
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Fundamentalism
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a belief in, and strict adherence to a set of basic principles (often religious in nature), a reaction to perceived doctrinal compromises with modern social and political life.
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Flappers
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young women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to the new jazz music, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.
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Speakeasies
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an establishment which illegally sold alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition movement (1920–1933, longer in some states).
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Volstead Act
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It reinforced the prohibition of alcohol in the United States of America and was named after Andrew Volstead, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who oversaw its passage.
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Scopes Trial
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An American legal case that tested the Butler Act, which made it unlawful, in any state-funded educational establishment in Tennessee, "to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.
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Black Tuesday
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- October 29, 1929. It was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States.
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Hawley Smoot Tariff Act
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Act that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels.
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Bonus Army
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An assemblage of some 43,000 marchers — 17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups, who protested in Washington, D.C., in spring and summer of 1932.
The war veterans sought immediate, cash payment of Service Certificates granted them eight years earlier via the Adjusted Service Certificate Law of 1924. President Hoover refused to negotiate and ordered tear gas to be sprayed on the troops. |
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Hoovervilles
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Unemployed families made makeshift communities that were called Hoovervilles.
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AAA (1933)
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a. paid farmers to not grow crops --> increase supply and demand
b. intended to provide help to farmers |
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CCC (1933)
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a. gave jobs to unemployed young men
b. helped to restore the nation's landscape |
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TVA (1933)
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a. economic recovery of the region (jobs)
b. electrification c. new agriculture techniques and roads d. government owned |
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EBA (1933)
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a. addressed problems and government involvement
b. created FDIC c. put faith back in banks |
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PWA (1933)
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a. gave jobs to unemployed by doing public work services
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FERA (1933)
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a. gave money handouts
b. provided food and clothing to the unemployed |
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SEC (1933)
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a. have to publicize information before going public
b. aimed at businesses c. to protect public against fraud |
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FDIC (1933)
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a. help prevent bank panics
b. guarantees bank deposits up to $5,000 c. restores confidence in the banks |
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WPA (1935)
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a. relief program
b. put people to work on infrastructure projects c. created 3 million jobs in the first year d. cost over $12 billion and at one point employed 40% of workers |
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SSA (1935)
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a. gave benefits to elderly and disabled
b. monthly checks (paid $10-80 per month) c. 45 million Americans used - by 1939 |
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Wagner Act (1935)
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a. workers could baragin collectively
b. stop abusive employers c. National Labor Relations Act --> National Labor Relations Board |