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- The Harding Administration is best known for its policy of ________.
- isolationism, it's ties with big business, and it scandals.
- Great Migration
- half a million blacks moved from the rural South to the urban North in the 1910s
- "Red Scare"
- US politics move in a more conservative direction Government attempt to expose and punish communists, anarchists, radicals, etc.
- Red Scare was characterized by _____.
- Palmer Raids = investigations of labor leaders and radicals
- As European immigrations increased after WWI, Congress established a quota system with the ________.
- Emergency Quota Act (1921) = set quotas for different nationalities based on how many of that nationality lived in the US in 1890 - Discriminating against new immigration groups
- Warren Harding
- Campaigned for presidnet 1920 Republican promised a "return to normalcy"
- Warren Harding's "return to normalcy"
- rejection of the activist government of the Progressive era & a call to isolate America from war- and revolution-torn Europe
- Washing Naval Conference
- When the US called this conference of major powers who had an interst in Asia. Nations agreed to scrap a percentage of their existing battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers. 1921
- Fordney-McCumber Tariff (1922)
- Passed by Congress Raised tariff rates Especialy high on agricultural goods Expression of America's desire to isolate itself from Europe
- Teapot Dome Scandal (1921 - 1923)
- -During Harding Administration -Involved bribery and transfer or rights to precious oil reserve at Teapot Dome, Wyoming -Demonstrated the administration's shaky ethical foundation
- Who came after Harding?
- Coolidge
- Coolidge's approach to governing
- laissez-faire, pro business
- Coolidge twiced vetoed the McNary-Haugen Bill, which _____.
- Would have provided price supports to struggling farmers
- The most contentious foreign relations problem the country faced in the 1920s was ______
- International debt
- Dawes Plan (1924)
- US plan to provide loans to Germany so it could stabilize its currency and continue its reparations payments, which would help England and France to pay off loans to America
- Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)
- Outlawed war Reflected US's naive hope to avoid war
- Republican ______ call for "a chicken in every pot" tapped into the seeming prosperity of the decade and contributed to his victory"
- Herbert Hoover
- "Roaring Twenties"
- Characterized by a seemingly strong economy
- Most significant strikes immediately following WWI, 1919
- Seattle general strick and the Boston Police strike
- open shops
- nonunion workplaces
- Frederick Winslow Taylor
- Developed the field of scientific management during the 1920s
- Henry Ford
- Introduced the asssembly line Big contribution to the automobile It was in his interest to keep his employers happy so he doubled their pay cus the assembly line is tiring
- Impact of the automobile
- 1. people didn't hav eot live near an urban core of a surburban train station 2. bigger independence for women and young people 3. reduced sense of isolation for rural families
- Installment plans
- Allow people to put some money down and pay the rest, with interest, later
- Ssacco and Vanzetti
- Arrested in 1920 for the murder of a factory paymaster and a guard and for stealing the payroll Found guilty, sent to death penalty
- 18th Amendment
- Banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages (1920)
- 21st Amendment (1933)
- Repealed the 18th Amendment
- William Jenings Bryan
- Ran for president against McKinley Supported free silver Opposed Social Darwinism
- Charles Lindbergh
- American pilot who made a solo flight across the Atlantic
- "Lost Generation"
- American writers who were disgusted by the materialism and small-town provinciality Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Eliot
- Harlem Renaissance
- Creative outpouring of Black culture, literature, etc. Praised black culture and redefined black expression in world
- Marcus Garvey
- Black nationalist who wanted blacks to go back to Africa
- National Origins Act/Immigration Act of 1924/Johnson-Reed Act
- same as the Emergency Quota Act but the percent is different.
- Result of the Emergency Quota Act and the National Origins Act:
- a dramatic decrease in European immigrants from 1921 utnil 1965 when the Immigration Act ended the national origins quota system