the 1920s

the washington naval conference

the power treaties came from this

5 power treaty

limited number of ships for each country

4 power treaty

respect territory agreements

9 power treaty

open door trading with china

dawes plan

us paying back their own debts bc germany can’t pay their reparations

kellogg-briand plan

outlawed war

emergency quota act

limit immigration from each country to 3% of population from 1910 census

national origins act

limit immigration from each country to 2% of population from 1890 census

fordney mccumber tariff

protective tariff that backfired

things that democrats are split on

wet v. dry, urban v. farm, fundamental v. modern, liberals v. conservatives, and immigrants v. nativists

why was the economy during the 1924 campaign good on the surface?

safer conditions, better pay, new technology

revenue acts

coolidge vetoed bonus award for ww1 veterans and gave to wounded ww1 veterans

mcnary-haugen bill

told farmers to grow different crops so they wouldn’t compete; coolidge vetoed it bc of laissez-faire

flappers

went against conservative fashion

speakeasies

hidden bars that came about because of prohibition

al capone

poster boy for mobsters and organized crime

kkk

wanted native, white, and protestant supremacy

lost cause of civil war

south was fighting for states’ rights

leopold and loeb

friends that started with petty crimes but wanted to do the “perfect crime” and were caught with glasses near the crime scene

silent movies

later called talkies

al johnson

first words on film

who invented the movie camera

edison

marcus garvey

created the unia

john t scopes

taught evolution, going against the butler act, and lost his teaching license

new journalism

print and radio

why did price of model t go down

scientific management

why could people afford more things

layaway, credit, installment plans

what does hoover think about the great depression

thinks it is temporary and will correct itself

financial problems of the 1920s

easy credit, speculation, short selling, investment pools, overproduction, failure of banking system, uneven wealth distribution

smoot-hawley bill

protective tariff

germany has difficulty paying reparations

nazi party feels betrayed

debt moratorium

suspend debt owed so people will trade

federal farm board

pay farmers to let some land go unused

bonus army

ww1 veterans were promised a bonus but didn’t receive it so they marched on washington, army was sent to disperse them

fdr served 3 terms

died in his fourth from polio

three r’s approach

relief, recovery, reform