APUSH 30-32

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What was the solemn referendum?

Technically took public’s vote on the treaty of Versailles. Democrats = yes. Republicans = no

Examples of a mass consumption economy

Macys, sears

What did the economy go from?

Needs to wants

What did credit do?

Gave access to average American, lessened value of money, farmers temporarily win the gold silver debate

What is standardization?

More national culture

Langston huges

Poet, racial pride

Garvey

Racial pride, activist

Hurston

Poet, women, racial pride

Mencken

Lost gen, criticizes marriage, patriotism democracy, and prohibition

Fitzy

Makes comments about self-made man with the great Gatsby

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

How did the wright bros contribute to the return to industrialization?

Made planes

What does a return to normalcy mean?

Less imperialism, rights for women + workers

Less about activism, movies less about propaganda more just entertainment

Scientific management

Assembly line type of thing

Birth of a nation

Racism, re-raise of the KKK

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

Scopes Monkey Trail

Teacher wanted to teach evolution, parents said nope only bible, traditionalism vs modernism

What was the Harlem renaissance

Racial pride

Hoover

Return to normalcy, isolationism, laissez faire

What happened to he anti trust laws that were established in the progressive era?

Ignored

What did the end of the was mean for the the union cooperation?

Ended

What is an example of the continuity of the progressive era?

Veterans bureau, adjusted compensation act of 1924

What is the veterans bureau?

Insurance for soilders

What was the adjusted compensation act of 1924?

Helped vets

Who was Albert B Falls?

Teapot scandal, insider info

Who was Harry Daugherty

Teapot dome, insider info

Why was FDR voted in?

Promised to take action seriously about Great Depression

What was the new deal?

A series of programs and apps that focused on relief recovery, and reform from the great depression

Who is the forgotten man?

Poor men

What is the brain trust?

Group of progressive, reform minded people who FDR surrounded himself with

What did the nationwide banking holiday do?

Tried to slow people from taking out money

What were some examples of progressivism in the new deal?

Unemployment insurance, old people insurance, minimum wage, restriction on child labor

What is alphabet soup?

Mix of all organization with the common goals of recovery, relief and reform

Emergency banking relief act of 1933

Presidential power to take care of banking transactions and foreign exchange

Fireside chats

FDR using the radio to push these ideas

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

If bank is a member then individual deposits will be given up to $5000 (long term)

Managed currency

Private gold would be given to the treasury for paper currency, takes nation off the gold standard, helps debtors

Civilian Conservation Corps

Provided government jobs, take care of parks

Federal emergency relief administration

Gave 3 billion to states for wages on work projects

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

Works progress administration

Employment on infrastructure like bridges

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

Public works administration

How to help industry

Schechter case

Made NRA unconstitutional saying that congress cannot give legislative powers to the executive

National labor relations board

Made to manage labor disputes, deal with unions, made unions legal, more rights for labor

Congress of industrial organizations

Worked for unskilled workers

What did new dealers want?

Control of Wall Street, re - inflate industry, put back faith in economy

Securities and exchange commission

Used to prevent insider trading, against fraud

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

Federal housing administration

Government gives money to house holders to stimulate building industry

Washington ‘disbarment conference’

Goal 1: naval disarmament

Goal 2: diffuse situation with Japan

Break from building battle ships

Nine power treaty

Made open door policy permanent

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

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Outlawed offensive war

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

Four power treaty

Keep America and Great Britan in power of pacific and asia

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

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

Capper volstead act

Allows farmers to not follow, antitrust legislation

McNary - haugen bill

Tried to keep prices high by saying the government should buy surplus and sell it abroad, vetoed

What is the bonus army?

Veterans who protested in washington

Who was Douglas MacArthur?

Lead the bonus army

Hemmingway

Wrote realism piece about post World War I

Margret sanger

Pushed for birth control with Alice Paul

Robert frost

Was a traditional list who wrote about nature and New England

Carl Sandburg

Traditionalist who praise the working class of Chicago

William Faulkner

Focused on displacement of the old south in industrial world

Mitchell Palmer

Lead the red scare

Immigration act of 1924

Cut down, southern European immigration and stop the Japanese immigration

Sacco v Vanzetti

Suffered by the red scare