History II CP : The Presidents of the 1920s, the Red Scare and the Red Summer

What did President Harding mean when he talked about a return to ‘normalcy’ after World War I? What policies does he support?

Conservative policies that aided the growth of business It was his campaign model He wanted to bring life to how it was prior WWI

What is the Bureau of the Budget and the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921?

established to streamline government spending and keep track of all of the federal money more efficiently ( each department submitted its own  budget)

What was the Washington Naval Conference

The Washington Naval conference  was when the biggest naval powers of the world came together and to stop increasing their fleets and to decrease them.

What was the Teapot Dome Scandal? And who commited the crime

The Teapot Dome scandal The teapot dome scandal talks about Edwin Denby persuading president Harding to move the responsibilities of some of the nations oil reserves to the secretary of the interior Albert B.fall and he had secretly leased out the oil reserves to different oilman's without proper bidding and pocketed cash. 

What does Coolidge do to try to protect American business

Created polices in which favored business

What is a Tariff? and Why do we use them during this time period

A tariff is a tax that is collected They still use it to collect money and to protect the national security

What was the Dawes Plan? How was this supposed to help the countries in Europe

 The Dawes plan was a way for the US to pay all the loans and then Germany to pay the allies for war reparations and then the allies pay back the US. This helped the countries in Europe because Germany was paying a lot of money for all the damages they caused and the allied powers were gaining a lot of money from that. 

What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?

An agreement not to use war to settle differences. And it was signed by the most established nations. Nothing to enforce it and it is still in effect today. 

Isolationism

A policy that the US has had for a while. And it means we are going to get out of foreign affairs. 

Nativism

It argues that immigrants took away jobs and threatened the US

What was the goal of nativism ?

The goal of nativism was to stop immigration to the US

What was the Emergency Quota Act? The National Origins Act?

 The Emergency Quota Act and the National Origins Act were an act that put a quota on how many people could immigrate from different countries.

What were the Palmer Raids

The Palmer Raids were raids where 5000 people were suspected radicals and rounded up and are arrested and out of the raids there were 3 pistols and 5000 people 

What was the General Intelligence Division or GID?

The GID was an intelligence  agency  that was created by Mitchell Palmer to gather intelligence on radical groups, later turned into the FBI.

Why was their case so controversial? (Sacco and Vanzetti)

Their case was controversial because the courtroom was unfair to both men due to them being anarchists which caused an unfair trial. 

Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?  Why was their case so controversial? Their case was controversial because the courtroom was unfair to both men due to them being anarchists which caused an unfair trial. 

Sacco and Vanzetti were anarchists from italy.

Why is the summer of 1919 referred to as the “Red Summer”?

The red summer was referred to as that because of how much blood of black people were on the streets 

What is the Great Migration ?

It was when a lot of black people had moved from the south up to the north

What Happened in Tulsa O.K.?

The Tulsa massacre happened and a lot of negros had died because the color of their skin by white people