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"Return to Normalcy" |
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"The business of America is Business" |
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"Rugged Individualism" |
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"The only thin to fear, is fear itself" |
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Which President is associated with
"the New Deal" |
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| What were the three budget laws passed after the war to help with debt? |
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Budget Act of 1921
Revenue Act of 1921
Revenue Act of 1926- lowered income taxes
(We need to pay back war bonds) |
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| After the war we went back to what belief? |
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| Farmers are back in vicious debt cycle so what three acts did we pass to help? |
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- Emergency Tariff Act of 1921- put tariffs on agricultural products
- Fordney-McCumber Tariff of 1922- increased price of foreign goods
- McNary-Haugen Farm relief Bill of 1927/1928
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- What is it?
- it is the highest protective tariff in US history, both farmers and industry favor it
- It turns out to be a big mistake!
- Other nations dont have money to buy from us if cant sell to us
- Allied debtors cant repay loans, US cant offer new loans
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
(backfires on us)
"bombshell to world" |
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Womens Right to Vote |
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moved inauguration for president from march 4th to January 20th |
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Repealed 18th (prohibition) |
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Credit/Installment buying |
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| an arrangement in which a purchaser pays over and extended time, without having to put down much money at the time of purchase. |
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Characteristics:
high unemployment, high business failure, excessive overproduction |
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| The idea that the bible was literal and everything in it happened |
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| A flowering of African American artistic creativity during the 1920's, centered in the Harlem community of New York City |
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Hoovervilles/Shantytowns
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| A neighborhood in which people live in makeshift shacks |
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| The purchasing of stocks by paying only a small percentage of the price and borrowing the rest |
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The banning of the manufacture, sale and possession of alcoholic beverages.
"a noble Experiment"
FAILED |
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| A period in the 1920's following world war I when there was an overwhelming fear of communists, this fear often resulted in hysteria by both US citizens and the Gov.. This fear comes back in W.W.II |
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- Economist Roger Babson's warnings
- 9/5/29 the "Babson break"
- Oct/Nov mostly down
- Panic selling, rapid trading
- Bail out by bankers
- Nov. 13th 1929, investors lose billions
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| People become impatient, now will look to democratic party, age of the GOP is over, Hoover loses by a lot |
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| was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the Twenties. He finished four novels, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night and his most famous, the celebrated classic, The Great Gatsby. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon was published posthumously |
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| was a publisher, journalist,entrepreneur, Black Nationalist, Pan-Africanist, and orator. Marcus Garvey was founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) |
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| American writer and journalist. During his lifetime he had seven novels, six collections of short stories, and two works of non-fiction published, with a further three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction autobiographical works published after his death. Hemingway's distinctive writing style characterized by economy and understatementhad an enormous influence on 20th-century fiction, as did his apparent life of adventure and the public image he cultivated. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, culminating in his 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
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| American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, andcolumnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best-known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance. He is also best known for what he wrote about the Harlem Renaissance, "Harlem was in vogue." |
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| American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist. Johnson is remembered best for his writing, which includes novels, poems, and collections of folklore. He was also one of the first African-American professors at New York University. Later in life he was a professor of creative literature and writing at Fisk University. |
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| American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American society and capitalist values, as well as their strong characterizations of modern working women. |
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| Italian immigrants who were accused and convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in Massachusetts. After a controversial trial and a series of appeals, the men were executed on August 23, 1927 |
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| a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, was charged on May 5, 1925 with violatingTennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools. He was tried in a case known as the Scopes Monkey Trial. |
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