republican senator, unclear about his stance on issues, 1920 presidential nominee
Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act
increase in tariff rates in 1922, one of 3 laws Harding approved
Bureau of the budget
harding established, set procedures for all govt expenditures to be placed in a single budget for congress to vote one
Teapot Dome
Albert Fall and Attorney General Harry Mcdaugherty accepted bribes for granting oil leases, Wyoming
Calvin Coolidge
Harding's VP and successor, MA governor who broke the Boston police strike
Herbert Hoover
Secretary of Commerce, selfmade millionaire, republican nominee in 1928
Alfred E Smith
democrat in 1928, governor of NY, roman catholic, opponent of prohibition, appealed to immigrants
business prosperity
rise of 64% in manufacturing output from increased productivity, energy technologies, and govt policies
henry Ford
perfected a system for manufacturing automobiles, with an assembly line, 1914
open shop
keeping jobs open to nonunion workers, most companies insisted on it
welfare capitalism
voluntarily offering employees improved benefits and higher wages in order to remove the need for organizing unions
jazz age
high school/ college youth expressed their rebellion against elders' culture by dancing to jazz music
consumerism:autos, radio, movies
electricity enabled consumers to buy more products
charles lindhberg
young aviator who in 1927 thrilled the nation and the entire world by flying nonstop across the atlantic from long island to paris
sigmund freud
austrian psychiatrist who stressed the role of sexual repression in mental illness
margaret sanger
advocate of birth control
modernism
took a historical and critical view of certain passages of the bible believed in darwin's theory of evolution without abandoning religious faith
fundamentalism
condemned modernists, believged the bible needed to be accepted literally
revivalists: billy sunday, aimee semple Mcpherson
preached the fundamentalist message thru mass communication, used the radio, evangelist drew large crowds, attacking drinking, gambling, and dancing; comdemned communism and jazz music
gertrude stein
writer, called new writers a lost generation
f scott fitzgerald, ernest hemingway, sinclair lewis
lost generation, wrote novels
countee cullen, langston hughes, james weldon johnson, claude mckay
leading harlem poets, commented on the african american heritage, expressed a range of emotions, bitterness, resentment, joy, hope
duke ellington & loius armstrong
jazz musicicians & artists
t s eliot, ezra pound
poet, lost generation
bessie smith
African American great blues singer
frank lloyd wright
architect, expanded ideas of loius sullivan
functionalism
form follows function in industrial design
edward hopper & georgia o'keefe
painters, new technology and urban life impacted art
paul robeson
african american actor
harlem renaissance
artistic achievement of talented writers, actors, artists, musicians, writers
marcus garvey
charismatic immigrant, advocated individual and racial pride for african americans and developed political ideas of black nationalism
scopes trial
a tennessee biology teacher was persuaded to tech darwins theory in his high school class, and he was arrested his trial was all over newspapers and the radio
clarence darrow
defended john scopes, famous lawyer, clever questioning
prohibition; volstead act 1919
prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages, liquors, wines, and beers, federal law inforcing prohibition
organized crime
gangsters and gangs, ex one led by al capone, became big business, millions made from the sale of illegal booze, allowed them to expand their illegal activities
immigration quota 1921, 1924
severely limited immigration, laws based on natioality
sacco and vanzetti
Niccolo & Bartolomeo, 1921, convicted of committing robbery and murder, poor italians, anarchists, executed
ku klux klan
most extreme expression of nativism in 1920's
disarmament
treaties arranged to promote peace, scaled back on expenditures
Washington conference, 1921
sec of state, charles evan hughes initiated talks of disarmament, reps came from belgium, china, great britain, italy, japan, netherlands, portugal, agreed on fiive/four/and nine power treaties
kellogg-briand treaty
treaty signed by sec of state, frank, and french foreign minister aristide, peace movement, renounced the aggressive use of force to achieve national ends, permitted defensive wars, unsuccessful
war debts
US lent +10 billion dollars to allies, demanded it be repayed
reparations
britain & france used this kind of money to repay debts to US
dawes plan
compromise accepted by all sides, established a cycleof payments between US to germany then germany to allies to help rebuild nation
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