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What was the solemn referendum?
Technically took publicās 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 arenāt 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 ādisbarment conferenceā
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 canāt sell stuff in America so canāt 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
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