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AP US The 1920s

Chapter 23

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Harlem Renaissance black culture~music, literature, art plays. Illustrates African American perspective of life in US.
Andrew mellon Secretary of Treasury to Harding. Mellon Plan= cut income tax rate, cut taxes on low income, reduce federal estate tax, efficiency in gov. Overall inscreased federal revenue and cut spending in hopes to reduce dept from war
Consumerism inscreased supple of consumer goods= more adversiting and white collar jobs
Red Scare "new" immigrants bring socialism, communism, anarchism. Bombing actualize threat. ex)Sacco and Zanetti
Teapot Dome Scandal HARDING. Sec of Interior Albert Fall illegally leased gov't oil fields reserved for navy to private firms
Washington Naval Conferences Agreement to reduce # of battleships of world's largest navies
Palmer Raids A. Mitchell Palmer. round up and deportation of suspected socialist/communists/anarchists on "soviet ark" back to Russia
Volstead Act PROHIBITION> makes it illegal to sell, trad,e transfer alcohol. "the nobel experiment" fails due to understaffed and underfunded. leads to increase in organized crime.
H.L Mencken wrote "The American Language" reported Scopes trial.
John Scopes violates Tennessee law prohibiting teaching of evolution
Klan rise of KKK, added catholics and foreigners. no longer secret, openly participating in govnt. `
Writers of the 20s Ernest Hemingway~"a farewell to arms" "sun also rises" emphasizes loss of innocence due to war. Sinclair Lewis "main street bobbit" satires of small town life and conformity. F Sct Fitzgerald- The Great Gatsby
Presidents of the 20s ALL REPUBLICAN, PRO-BUSINESS AND CONSERVATIVE. Harding-1920, Coolidge 1924 Hoover 1928
Policies of Presidents High Tariffs (Fordney-McCUmber 1922) and (Smoo-Howley 1930), Diminish power of regulatory agencies, low tax for wealthy, supported trade associations, suppressed labor unions
Economic Trends Mass production, mergers, UNIONS WEAKENED-associated with radicals/communists. Welfare Capitalism=attempt to discourage unions thru benefits, vacation, bonuses
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