1920
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- Labor Unrest
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many strikes
coal strikes led by john lewis
-ordered by court to go back to work
police strikes
-forbidden from forming a union but did anyway and striked
-boston is threatened by no P.O. - what does calvin coolidge say?
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no body has the right to go on strike if it endangers the saftey of president
becomes vice president - RED SCARE
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fear of government being overthrown by communists
Palmer arrest many people that are accused of being communists; none of them were.
people lost faith in government and feared communism thats what caused red scare - American Civil Liberties Union
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a union that provided lawyers for those who had their civil rights violated
a example is the scope trial
darwinism - prohibition
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18th amendment to get rid of alcohol
caused organized crime
al capone
wets- get rid of 18th amendment
drys- keep 18th amendment
later roosevelt creates 21st amendment which gets rid of the 18th amendment - hughes
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invites countries to washington for a disarment confrence
-got countries to limit navies
-u.s. signed a treaty w/60 other countries to outlaw war. - teapot dome scandal
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some people in the Hardings administration
Albert Fall-sold government land to oil companines and kept the money
Charles Forbes- ripped off government of 250 million dollars building a hospital. - Coolige becoming president
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Harding died of pnemonia. so vp coolidge becomes president
cleans out the government since a lot of scandals - Herbert Hoover
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republican
during his presidency the great depression occurs - Marcus Garvey
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influenctial African American leader
created the Universal Negro Improvement Association
"Be proud of being African"
encouraged blacks to own their own businesses
and encouraged blacks to shop only at black shops
got sent back to Jamaca because he was on trial for "stealing money" - Harlem Renaissance
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out pour of arts in harlem
themes: racism of the U.S.
duke ellington, laris Armstrong-band leaders
langston hughes-poet
Paul robeson-first African american fotball player,becomes lawyer, goes to russia and comes back without any critisim of russia, thought to be a communist - McNary Haugen Bill
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government stopped buying food
-created food prices to go down
-over production
-u.s. government subsidizes american farmers -
what is a significant change in the 20's?
electricity? -
rural-> urban
electricity becomes common in urban areas
factories convert to electricity
-becomes more productive
Taylor-efficiency expert
"scientific management"
"mass production"
"taylorize" be more efficent
electric machines
vaccum
washing machine
tosters
refridgerators-changed diets of U.S. - Radio
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made people in america talk alike
creates simultaneous emotion
advertising becomes more sophisticated - Age of Automobiles
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1st time in history the automobile is affordable to the U.S.
automobiles become a big industry
suburbs are created
-lets people live farther from work
appearance of shopping malls
decline of downtown areas
decline of the railroad industry - Authors
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F.Scott Fitzgerald-
this side of paradise
great gatsby
lewis-
mainstreet, babbit
hemmingway-
sun also rises
farewell to arms
Faulkiner-
as i lay dying
sound and the fury
eliot
wasteland
frost
writes about new england
e.e. cummings
never uses punctuation or capital letters