1920 and 1930's

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Warren G Harding

-Elected president in 1920

-Republican

-Administration had many scandals

Return to Normalcy

-Hardings Campaign Slogan

-Opposite of Woodrow Wilson

-Content to living his life (Wanted things back to normal)

(Wanted things to go back to normal, and did not care about the other people suffering)

Teapot Dome

-Scandal under Harding

-Took bribes to let oil companies drill gov land

Calvin Coolidge(Republican)

-Became president when harding died in office

-Very pro business

Alice Paul

-Protested for women’s rights

-Woman should be able to vote

Ida B Wells

-Protests woman’s suffrage

-Anti lynching

Molasses Flood

Molasses used in the manufacture of alcohol & manufacturing explosives

Tank explodes (21 people killed, 100 injured)

Red Summer

-Race riots across the US (1919)

-One of the worst wars in Chicago

(White people terrorized the blacks many mobs)

Red Scare

-Fear that communists were taking over country

-Led to anti-immigrants feelings

Prohibition

-Making the manufacture of selling alcohol illegal

Henry Ford

-Manufacturing cars (Model T)

-He was antisemitic (Racist towards jews)

Marcys Garvey

-Black American Activist

-Establishing settlements in Africa

-Africans return back

Babe Ruth

-Big Sportstar of 1920’s

-Big Homerun hitter/ Pitcher (Boston Red Sox; NY Yankees

-Poor family

(HomeRuns- 54 1st year, 59 2nd year/ Branch Rickey coaches and didnt care about race)

Who Said “The business of America is business"?” What did this mean?

-Calvin Coolidge

-Priority of U.S business

Who were the first to protest and carry signs in front of the White House?

-Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party

-Petitioned for voting rights (against woman suffrage)

What helped Henry Ford keep prices low on the Model T?

-Assembly line

-Simple to make

How many Model T cars could Ford produce in a day in the 1910s?

-4 cars a minute

-9,000-10,000 a day

How many Ford F-150s are made in a day today

-About 1000

Bull Market

-Stocks go up

-People buy more

-Prices rise because everyone expects better

Bear market

-Stocks go down

-People start selling

-Prices fall because everyone expects worse

Buying on the margin

-Borrowing money from broker

-To buy more stocks

Installment buying

-Monthly payment

(Kind of like a payment plan)

Stock Market Crash

-”Black Tuesday”

-Cause: Buying on margin, Overvalued stocks (Up-charge on stocks)

-People lost savings & banks failed

(MAJOR cause of great depression)

Bank Run

-Everyone takes money out of bank at same time

-Causes bank to collapse

Herbert Hoover (Republican)

-Pro business anti government regulations

-Created Reconstruction Finance Corporation (Use gov money to loan to the businesses)

-Opposed to financial support to poor (provided by gov)

-Unpopular because he is pessimistic

Bonus Army March

-Unemployed world war 1 veterans promised a bonus

-Protested because they never received it

Franklin D Roosevelt

-Elected 4 times

-Great depression

-Had polio

Election of 1932

-Roosevelt vs Hoover

-Roosevelt wins

(Hoover wasn’t successful during the great depression)

New Deal

-Roosevelt program to fight the Great Depression & WW2

First Hundred Days (Franklin Roosevelt Response)

*Possible essay question

-Showed care about poor people

-Bank Holiday (To show proof banks are stable to reopen; 5 days)

-FDIC (Even if bank closes gov promises some money back)

-SEA (Laws to regulate stock market)

-AAA (Raise crop prises)

-NRA (Partnership between industry and gov)

-CCC- Helped build state parks

(What the short cuts mean: Federal Department Insurance Corp, Securities Exchange Act, Agricultural Adjustment Act, National Recovery Act, Civilian Conservation Core)

NRA (National Recovery Act)

-Partnership between Industry and Government

-Helps businesses hire more people(reasonable prices)

AAA ( Agricultural Adjustment Act)

-Try to raise crop prices

-Paid farmers not to plant certain crops

-Destroyed pigs

CCC (Civilian Conservation Core)

-Helped built state parks

-Young men (18-25)

-Reward: Fed, Paid, Provided with housing

(75% pay goes back to family)

Ocoee Masacre

-Election of 1920

-Black leaders in Ocoee went down to vote

-Lynching

(30-60 African Americans killed)

Election of 1936

-Roosvelt vs Landon

-Roosvelt wins by landslide

Second New Deal

-3 critics (Huey Long, Charles Couglin, Dr. Townsend)

-WPA (works progress administration) employed over 8 million people, built roads, parks, etc.

FDR’s big mistake

-Supreme Court Packing Scheme

-For any justice 70 or over that doesn’t retired, he will appoint a new justice

-Big fail

Wagner Act

-Unions have right to organize and establish collective bargaining.

Sit Down Strike

-(Flint Michigan) GM agreed to negotiate 1937

-Increased wages

What is fascism?

-Promising return to greatness or future greatness

-Mussolin- Greatness of Roman Empire

-Hitler- Third Reich

-Nationalism over individual rights

-Both based in Grievances of WWI

-Democracy is weak /Strong Leader

How many Russians did they think died because of Stalin

8-13 million