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24 Cards in this Set
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Palmer Raids
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-Palmer and Hoover
-Hunted down suspected Communists, socialist, and anarchists, and invaded homes, jailing ppl w/o evidence -1919 -USA -Ppl were scared that communists were going to overthrow the gov., like in Russia -During the Red Scare, lead to horrible persecutions like Sacco and Vanzetti, example of how rights could be thrown out the window when something threatened the gov. |
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Quota System
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-Immigrants
-established the maximum number of people who could enter the United States from each foreign country. "Emergency Quota Act", 2% of immigrants could enter -1921 -Goal=cut sharply European immigration to US -Did achieve, many ppl no allowed to enter (on purpose) b/c it used a census from much earlier, some groups had no one in US b/c of this |
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Coal Miner's Strike
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-John Lewis, miners
-the United Mine Workers of America, put on a strike, but did not have to strike because the miners got a 27% wage increase -1919 -USA -Wanted higher wages and shorter work days -An example of a successful strike w/o actual striking |
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Automobile Impact
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-Ford, others
-Ford payed workers well, cars when from taking 4 hours to make to 1/2, #1 US industry (80% in US), assembly lines invented -Early 1900s -USA -People wanted an easier way to get into the cities -Lead to urban sprawl, gas sales, highways, encourages movement and freedom, builds Route 66 |
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Changes in Advertising
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-Businesses
-Change from simply informative, to promoting an image, psychologists were hired just to study how appeal works -1910s and on -USA -A shift occured, and people wanted to buy things based off image -Lead to modern day advirtising (where it is virtually everywhere) |
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Buying Goods on Credit
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-Consumers
-People began to buy stuff with little or no money down under installment plans -Early 1900s -USA -People wanted to buy things the couldn't intially afford -Lead to massice debts (personal and large scale), because ppl bought stuff they could never afford |
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Prohibition
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-By mostly women, gangsters get involved
-A banning on the sale, manufaction and transportation of alcohol, speakesis were formed, Al Cappone and followers sold it and made $$ in organized crime, made ppl pay them so they wouldn't kill them -1920 -USA -Seen as immoral, and thought to lead to bad events such as violence and crime -Repealed after 14 years, crime spread out to gambeling and prostitution |
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Scopes Trial
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-John Scope and William J Bryan, Clarrence Darrow
-Scope taught evolution in his classroom and was arrested. Became a media frenzy, with Darrow as his lawyer -1925 -Dayton, Tenn, an evangelical town proud of their beliefs -Teaching of evolution was outlawed in states -Scopes was found guilty, but only fined $100, and it brings a negative live to fundalmentalist Christians |
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Flapper
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-Mostly women
-A group of young, well-educated women crusading for women's, Women did activities that were considering risque right's, also defyed the double standard -1920s -USA -They wanted to be free from the "cult of domesticity" that they were constrained to -Women made a stand, and lead to a new view of teenagers being in between kid and adult |
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Radio Age
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-Listens and producers
-Changed from warnings and communication to commercials and programs, majority of US listened in -1920s -USA -Gave people extracuricular activities besides work and family -Major impact on news, advirtising, mass media (by connecting ppl) |
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UNIA
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-Marcus Garvey
-Universal Negro Improvement Association, big supports of the back to Africa movement -1918 -USA -He felt white ppl would never accept A-A's, so he wanted A-A's to create their own society in Africa -A new outlook on A-A position, more than a million followers |
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Harlem Renaissance
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-McKay, Hughes, Robeson, Armstrong, Ellington, Smith,
-An cultural awakening in Harlem for African Americans, new movements in Poetry (McKay), jazz and poems (Hughes), actors (Robeson), trumpet player (Armstrong), jazz pianist (Ellington), and singer (Smith) -1920s -Harlem, NY -A-As wanted to connect to each, and be known for other things other than their race -Many influenticial and talented A-As emmerged during this time |
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Specuation/buying on the margin
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-Consumers
-Purchasing stocks for as itte as 5% down, banks loaned $ to stock brockers to facilitate buying, -1929 -USA -People thought Overspeculation= investors gambled prices would rise, artificial rises fueled by this -An immediate cause of the 1929 crash and the GD |
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Black Tuesday
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-Consumers, all Americans
-Everyone tried to sell their stocks at the same time, and in a few weeks fortunes were ruined -1929 -USA/Wallstreet -Because of overspeculation, the stocks were not worth as much as ppl had paid for them -Direct cause of the Depression |
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Causes of the Great Depression
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-Americans
-1.Uneven income distribution=wealth concentrated in a few ppl, low wages for workers, 1/2 ppl below poverty line 2.Weak industries=once only now challeneged, cotton by synthetics, RR by automobiles, food prices low 3.Overproduction=left in storage never sold, prices wend down 4.Unstable banking= mismangament and overspeculation, $ not in reliable investments, no $ to pay back lones 5.Weak Internatioal=high tariffs, -1929 -USA -The stock market crashed -These lead to the Depression |
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Dust Bowl
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-Americans
-Ecological and human disaster, millions of acres became useless and covered in dust, great clouds of dust -1930s -Southwest -Overproduction of land and years of drought and high winds -hundreds of thousands forced to leave their homes, lead to better farming to avoid future dust bowls |
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Effects of Depression on Children
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-Children
-Children suffereded from poor diets, lack of $ for health care, school shortened child-welfare programs sacrificed -1930s -USA -From the the Depression -Closed gap between child and adult with teenagers, who were looking for a way out of the suffereing |
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Social and Psychological Effects of Depression
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-Americans
-3x as many ppl admitted into mental hospitals, suicide right went up, stigma of poverty -1930s -USA -Ppl were demoralized by loss of jobs and money -Many commited suicide, showed how many ppl were affected and how horrible it was |
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The Hundred Days
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-FDR
-Many reforms (CCC, AAA, ect.) all having to do with either relief, recovery, or reform. 15 proposed to Congress and all accepted -1930s -He wanted to accomplish alot in his first 100 days and get America out of the Depression and prevent similar events from every happening -His reforms had a lot of support, and most worked very well and gave many ppl jobs and relief |
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
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-Young men, by FDR
-Young men from 18-25 were employed to build roads, plant trees, make parks, and do other conservational improvements -1930s -USA -To provide recovery and jobs for ppl who were out of work, and to better the envirnment -Provided 3 million men with jobs, and improved environment at the same time, successful |
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Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
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-FDR
-Raised crop prices by lowering production, gave ppl $ to destory crops -1933 -USA (farms) -To recover the crop prices and pump more $ into the system -Angered some ppl because they were destroying food when so many were hungry, but over all successful |
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Court Packing Bill
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-FDR
-FDR tries to make a retiring age (70) for the Justices, but failed -1933 -USA -The Justices were challenging his plans, and thought he might turn into a dictator -An example of how FDR went too far in one of his plans |
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New Deal Coalition
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-FDR
-One of his greatest achievements, an alignment of diverse groups dedicated to supporing the Democratic Party. Southerm whites, urban groups, A-As, industrial workers -1933 -USA -FDR wanted to gain support from all different groups as opposed to one -Worked very well, and dominated the elections |
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1936 Election
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-FDR
-Won election by a landslide from support of Democratic party -1936 -USA -The New Deal Coalition worked in his favor bc he had so much diversity on his side |