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- Townshend
- $200 dollars a month for senior citizens; precursor to social security
- AAA
- Agriculture adjustment admin; establish "parity prices" for basic commodities for farmers, also elimate price-depressing surpluses by paying farmers to reduce crops
- isolationism
- opposing alliances w/other countries
- margaret sanger
- opened first birth control clinic in Am. and an avid supporter of birth control
- "back to africa"
- movement by marcus garvey; take all the black people back to africa to live in a separate colony
- roosevelt's three R's
- recovery, relief, reform
- harlem renaissance
- literary and artistic movement celebrating african american culture in the 1920's
- Fall
- one of the "ohio gang" who sold off some of the federal oil reserve to oil companies, starting the teapot dome scandal
- strikes of the 1920s
- police strike, steel mill strike, coal miners strike; 1920s not a good time for these
- dawes plan
- rescheduled german payments and opened more loans from Am. to germany
- John l. lewis
- president of the CIO union group
- charles coughlin
- catholic priest w/a broadcasting show; "Social justice"
- court packing
- adding a new justice for every court justice that was over 70 and not retired
- mass production
- assembly line production; faster than cottage, but not as great quality
- modernism
- bible interpreted in terms of modern scholarship
- marcus garvey
- founds universal negro improvement association (UNIA); believed in separation of the races and started the "back to africa" movement
- kellog-briand pact
- outlaws war; ratified by 62 nations, but never followed
- mcnary-haugen bill
- keep farm prices high by making govt buy surplus crubs and sell them abroad
- wagner act
- reasserted labor to form unions and bargain successfully for more rights; milestone for labor rights
- fordney-mccumber tariff law
- 38.5% to equal out the coast for american and foreign stuff
- 2nd KKK
- backlash from immigration; against blacks, immigrants, jews, and catholics
- mellon
- sec. of treasury under harding
- 18th amendment
- prohibition
- labor-saving devices
- washing machines, vacuums, sewing machines, dishwasher
- sports of 1920s
- baseball biggest, boxing, football and golf
- WPA
- Works progress administration; built infrastructures in cities
- george norris
- senator that created the TVA
- movies/stars of 1920s
- rudolph valentino; clara bow; mary pickford
- margin buying/stock speculation
- 1) buying stock on credit 2) buying more stock than needed
- fundamentalism
- literal, non-symbolic interpretation of the bible
- the new morality
- new openness and frankness concerning sexuality in the 20s
- charles forbes
- leader in american legion and has to resign b/c is found stealing $
- hopkins
- roosevelt's right hand man during the New Deal period; WPA
- sigmund freud
- source of new morality in america w/his works of human sexuality
- daughterty
- attorney general in harding's cabinent; puts down unions for good in 1920s
- PWA
- Public works admin; work on infrastructure and public buildings; grand coulee dam
- scottsboro boys
- 9 black teens accused of raping a white girl are put on long trial w/ very shady testimony; announced a judicial failure
- john Davis
- democratic nominee against coolidge who is creamed
- UNIA
- universal negro improvement association; founded by marcus garvey
- wets and drys
- division between urban and rural communities in the 20s
- sacco and vanzetti
- example of xenophobia; 2 italians put on trial for "robbery", but should have been released due to insuffient evidence; eventually put to death
- SEC
- Securities and exchange commission; watchdog over the stock market, to keep it from being a gamble
- al capone
- chicago gangster that sold illegal substances
- volstead act
- established a prohibition bureau in the treaure dept
- pan-am airlines
- first airline business
- TVA
- Tenessee valley authority; created dams on tenessee river; discover how much the production and distribution of electricity cost, so that all could be set up fairly
- NRA
- National recovery administration; right to organize into unions, "fair competition" btwn companies
- palmer
- starts the "red scare", trying to eliminate all communists and foreigners
- okies
- farmers who moved farther west to escape the dust bowl
- CCC
- civilian conservation corps; camps designed to give work to men to keep them out of crime
- trickle-down economics
- govt gives tax breaks to company owners, who in turn give workers larger wages; INEFFECTIVE
- boondoggling
- thousands of jobs created out of nothing to employ the unemployed
- 19th amendment
- women's sufferage
- quota law
- allowed only a certain # of immigrants from each country a year
- washington conference
- after WWI; disarmament; 10-yr holiday; five-pwr naval treaty
- prohibition
- restriction of alcohol in the 20s in order to raise family values and worker activity
- bathtub gin
- homemade alcohol
- harding
- one of the worst presidents yet--corrupt and insufficient president; TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL