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- "yellow dog" contracts
- anti unions
- seattle general strike
- mayor called federal troops to head off "anarchy of Russia"
- "Trickle Down Theory"
- congress vote for useful public works
- Reconstruction Finance Corp
- gov lending bank designed to provide relief by assisting insurance companies, banks, agr. groups, railroads, and little gov. loans not to individuals.
- Farm Board
- created grain and cotton stability corps to bolster sagging prices by buying surpluses
- "Black Tuesday"
- 16,410,030 shares were sold. by end, holders lost $40 billion
- Bear Market
- declining economy
- Guglielmo Marconi
- invented wireless telegraphy used for WW1
- John Scopes
- bio teacher indicted for teaching evolution
- National Debt
- all time high - BureauofBudget
- T.S Eliot
- "waste land" was his influential poem
- Stimson doctrine
- us would not recognize any territorial acquisitions achieved by force
- Eugene O'Neill
- sex plays - strange interlude won nobel prize
- Mitchell Palmer
- "Fighting Quaker" who rounded up suspects --> home was bombed
- Al Capone
- scarface mobster
- Fundamentalists
- anti Darwinism and jazz age
- Norris La Guardia Act
- forbade bederal courts to issue injunction to restrain strikes, boycotts, and peace picketting
- Jazz singer
- first talking movie
- Manchuria
- overran Chinese province and bolted shut open door. Violation of L.O.N. covenant and things signed by Tokyo
- Frank Llyod Wright
- Roman and greek buildings
- Hawley-Smoot Tariff
- designed to assist farmers highest protective tariff. duty on nonfree goods
- Harlem Renaissance
- gifted writers , jazz, "new negro" social equality
- Frederick Taylor
- inventor, engineer, tennis player . sought to eliminate wasted motion ( Father of Scientific Management)
- KKK
- antiforeign(and everything) pro anglo-saxon and Native American and protestant. South and Midwest
- Volstead Act
- worked with 18th Ammend. prohib. popular in S & W .
- Thomas Edison
- flickering movie
- Bruce Barton
- greatest adman of all time known for The Man Nobody Knows Jesus Christ
- "Monkey Trial"
- trial that debated if Darwinism could be taught in public school- 5 days after trial bryans died scopes fined 100$
- Immigration Act
- replaced EQA quotas cut from 3% to 2% and 1910 to 1890 purpose to freeze americas existing racial comp
- Bull Market
- climing economy
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- murdered paymaster and guard-->sentenced to death b/c foreigners- 6 year case- electricuted
- Marcus Garvey
- political leader who founded united negro improvement assos.
- Langston Hughes
- poet
- Andrew Mellon
- secreatary of Tresury . abolished gift tax . reduced debt by 10 billion
- Birth of A Nation
- 1st full length movie that glorified KKK and put down blacks
- Emergency Quota Act
- newcomers restricted to definate quota unless people of nationality had been living in us since 1910 ( 3%)
- H.L Mencken
- author who attacked marriage, patriotism, democracy, prohibition and middle class
- Federal Farm Board
- had a revolving fund of 1/2 billion $. money loans
- Prof John Dewey
- Columbia philosopher "learning by doing" progressive education.
- Red Scare
- naitionwide crusade against non patriots
- Bonus Army
- some former convicts and communist agitators
- William Jennings Bryan
- challenged Scopes
- Speculation
- people bought stock
- Ezra Pound
- went to Europe "make it new"
- Charles A. Lindbergh
- "Flying Fool" traveled east to west from Ny to Paris
- Jack Dempsey
- boxer
- good neighbor policy
- helped latin america
- Ernest Hemmingway
- responded to propaganda
- United Negro Improvement Assos.
- sponsered stores and businesses to keep blacks $ in thier pockets
- " Public Works" projects
- hoover Dam (irrigation, flood control, electricity) Muscle Shoals Bill( Dam in Tennesee river)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Bible for Young and Great Gatsby
- Margaret Sanger
- feminist who organized birth control movement
- Buying "on margin"
- with small downpayment
- Sinclair Lewis
- Journalist with Main street- womens war against provincialism
- Sigmund Freud
- argued sexual repression responsible for nervous and emotional ills
- Gen. Douglas MacArthur
- bayonets and tear gas evicted bonus army --> injured and killed people--> people hate hoover and attempt to drive him from office
- Speculative Bubble
- prices in stock up but "covered" by Fed. Res. Board
- Agricultural Marketing Act
- designed to help farmers help themselves
- Clarence Darrow
- represented scopes
- Hoovervilles
- people who slept under newspapers and fought over garbage( slum town)
- New Immigration
- 800,000 immigrants mostly from S and E Europe
- William Faulkner
- southern writer
- "Bonus Expeditionary Force"
- 20,000 veterans who set up unsanitary camps and made "hooverville" to get congress attention ---> hoover paid them