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23 u.s.
23 U.S.
| terms | descriptions |
|---|---|
| warren harding | 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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