Technically took public’s vote on the treaty of Versailles. Democrats = yes. Republicans = no
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Examples of a mass consumption economy
Macys, sears
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What did the economy go from?
Needs to wants
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What did credit do?
Gave access to average American, lessened value of money, farmers temporarily win the gold silver debate
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What is standardization?
More national culture
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Langston huges
Poet, racial pride
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Garvey
Racial pride, activist
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Hurston
Poet, women, racial pride
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Mencken
Lost gen, criticizes marriage, patriotism democracy, and prohibition
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Fitzy
Makes comments about self-made man with the great Gatsby
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How did ford contribute to the return to industrialization?
Made cars more accessible and ford method, access to more area, new industries, freedom of mobility
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How did the wright bros contribute to the return to industrialization?
Made planes
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What does a return to normalcy mean?
Less imperialism, rights for women + workers
Less about activism, movies less about propaganda more just entertainment
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Scientific management
Assembly line type of thing
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Birth of a nation
Racism, re-raise of the KKK
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What did the radio do?
Makes global culture, access to more information, more POC in music, change in regional culture, was used to spread misinformation
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Scopes Monkey Trail
Teacher wanted to teach evolution, parents said nope only bible, traditionalism vs modernism
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What was the Harlem renaissance
Racial pride
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Hoover
Return to normalcy, isolationism, laissez faire
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What happened to he anti trust laws that were established in the progressive era?
Ignored
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What did the end of the was mean for the the union cooperation?
Ended
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What is an example of the continuity of the progressive era?
Veterans bureau, adjusted compensation act of 1924
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What is the veterans bureau?
Insurance for soilders
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What was the adjusted compensation act of 1924?
Helped vets
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Who was Albert B Falls?
Teapot scandal, insider info
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Who was Harry Daugherty
Teapot dome, insider info
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Why was FDR voted in?
Promised to take action seriously about Great Depression
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What was the new deal?
A series of programs and apps that focused on relief recovery, and reform from the great depression
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Who is the forgotten man?
Poor men
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What is the brain trust?
Group of progressive, reform minded people who FDR surrounded himself with
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What did the nationwide banking holiday do?
Tried to slow people from taking out money
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What were some examples of progressivism in the new deal?
Unemployment insurance, old people insurance, minimum wage, restriction on child labor
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What is alphabet soup?
Mix of all organization with the common goals of recovery, relief and reform
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Emergency banking relief act of 1933
Presidential power to take care of banking transactions and foreign exchange
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Fireside chats
FDR using the radio to push these ideas
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
If bank is a member then individual deposits will be given up to $5000 (long term)
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Managed currency
Private gold would be given to the treasury for paper currency, takes nation off the gold standard, helps debtors
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Civilian Conservation Corps
Provided government jobs, take care of parks
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Federal emergency relief administration
Gave 3 billion to states for wages on work projects
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Agriculture adjustment act
Helped farmers meet mortgages, used artificial scarcity to get rid of surplus and keep the prices down, paired farmers to farm less helped raised farm income
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Works progress administration
Employment on infrastructure like bridges
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National recovery administration
Made for long term reform and recovery, looks at how industry, labor and unemployed are or aren’t working together, fair competition to benefits all
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Public works administration
How to help industry
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Schechter case
Made NRA unconstitutional saying that congress cannot give legislative powers to the executive
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National labor relations board
Made to manage labor disputes, deal with unions, made unions legal, more rights for labor
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Congress of industrial organizations
Worked for unskilled workers
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What did new dealers want?
Control of Wall Street, re - inflate industry, put back faith in economy
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Securities and exchange commission
Used to prevent insider trading, against fraud
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Tennessee valley authority
Gave jobs by building hydro electric dams, feds could use to determine cost of electricity, more government in business, more affordable power to Americans
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Federal housing administration
Government gives money to house holders to stimulate building industry
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Washington ‘disbarment conference’
Goal 1: naval disarmament
Goal 2: diffuse situation with Japan
Break from building battle ships
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Nine power treaty
Made open door policy permanent
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What is the open door policy?
keep trade in China open equally to trade with all countries, preventing any one nation from controlling trade in the region
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
Outlawed offensive war
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Fordney-MuCumber tariff law
High tariff to keep American boom in America, means Europe can’t sell stuff in America so can’t pay back debt
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Four power treaty
Keep America and Great Britan in power of pacific and asia
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Dawes plan
German punishment was unfair, US investors give money to Wall Street who gives private loans to Germany who pays Great Britain and France, who then pay America
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Why was the end of the war hard for farmers?
Return to competing with global market, surplus - low prices, gasoline tries to put farmers out of business
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Capper volstead act
Allows farmers to not follow, antitrust legislation
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McNary - haugen bill
Tried to keep prices high by saying the government should buy surplus and sell it abroad, vetoed
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What is the bonus army?
Veterans who protested in washington
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Who was Douglas MacArthur?
Lead the bonus army
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Hemmingway
Wrote realism piece about post World War I
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Margret sanger
Pushed for birth control with Alice Paul
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Robert frost
Was a traditional list who wrote about nature and New England
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Carl Sandburg
Traditionalist who praise the working class of Chicago
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William Faulkner
Focused on displacement of the old south in industrial world
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Mitchell Palmer
Lead the red scare
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Immigration act of 1924
Cut down, southern European immigration and stop the Japanese immigration
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