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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

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