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05/27/2009

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Warren Harding
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republican president 1920. Not capable nor bright. contrasted favorably with wilson
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Calvin Coolidge
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vice president took over hardings place 1923
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Herbert Hoover
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only president from Iowa, also professional mining engineer and author
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Andrew Mellon
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Secretary of Treasury with ongoing efforts to reverse the progressive tax policies of the wilson years
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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The bribery scandal of the white house administration and the president
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League of Women Voters
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league which advocated for women's rights among the right for women to serve on juries and equal pay laws in 1920s
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Great Migration
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of the 1920s. mass movement of African Americans
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Marcus Garvey
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founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
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Langston Hughes
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well known writer, best known for his poetry
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Harlem Renaissance
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flowering of african american culture and intellectual life and litterature
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The Jazz Age
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term applied to the 1920's for the popular music of the day. many changes in mass culture
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flappers
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frivolous young women with short hair and skimpy skirts who danced, smoked, drank in oblivious self-absorption
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National Origins Act of 1924
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law sharply restricting immigration on the basis of immigrants' national origins and discriminating against southern and eastern europeans and asians
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Ku Klux Klan
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organization exploited racial, ethnic and relegious predjudices
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Volstead Act
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1920s defining the liquor forbidden under the 18th amendment and giving enforcement responsibilities to the Prohibition Beureau
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Scopes Trial
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Bio teacher arrested. famous trial, antievolution law of Tennessee
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Washington Naval Conference
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disarmament conference. treaty virtually froze current balance of naval power
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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international treaty that denounced agression and outlawed war- lacked provisision for enforcement
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Al Smith
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catholic New York governor
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New Deal
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the name given economic and political policies of the Roosevelt administration in the 1930s
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Hoovervilles
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shantytowns, in which unemployed and homeless people lived
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Great Depression
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nation's worst economic crisis
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Smoot-Hawley Tariff
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trade barrier that was constructed by us in 1930
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The Crash
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name given to stock market collapse in 1929
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wall street
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name usually applied to when reflecting on the economic bla bla in US
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
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lent federal funds to banks, insurance companies, and railroads so that their recovery could trickle down to ordinary Americans
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Bonus Army
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unemployed veterans of WW1 gathering in Washington
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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president who enacted the New Deal program as a Democrat, promising change in the depression
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Hundred Days
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the first 3 months of FDR's presidency
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Emergency Banking Act
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stabilized the private banking system
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Fireside Chats
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speeches broadcast nationally over the radio
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
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government agency that guarantees bank deposits, thereby protecting depositors and banks
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Securuties and Exchange Commission (SEC)
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federal agency with authority to regulate trading practices in stocks and bonds
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Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
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an organization created to provide relief for the unemployed, furnished funds to state and local agencies
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Harry Hopkins
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head of the FERA, one of the New Deal's most importaint members.
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Public Works Administration (PWA)
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provided work relief on useful projects to stimulate the economy through public expenditures
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
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employed 2.5 million young men to work on reforestation and flood-control projects, build roads etc.
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Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
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created to combat the depression in agriculture caused by crop surpluses and low prices
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National Recovery Administration
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sought to halt the slide in prices, wages, and employment by suspending antitrust laws and authorizing industrial and trade associations to draft codes..
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Wagner National Labor Relations Act
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guaranteed workers the right to organize unions and prohibited employers from adopting unfair labor practices
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Social Security
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provided unemployment compensation, old-age pensions and aid for dependent mothers
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Dust Bowl
Definition
great plains Texas to Dekotas. sand storms
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Okies
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families who abandoned farms in droves due to dust storms
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The Grapes of Wrath
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novel by John Steinbeck
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Works Progress Administration (WPA)
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set up work relief programs to assist the unemployed and boot the economy. GAVE JOBS TO 9 MILLION PEOPLE
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Congress of Industrial Organizations
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an alliance of industrial unions that spurred the 1930s organizational drive among the mass-production industries
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sit down strike
Definition
agressive tactic in which workers sat inside plant, blocking production and use
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Memorial Day Massacre
Definition
chicago, police killed 10 strikers
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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leader of women rights. first lady of the house
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Indian Reorganization Act
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guarenteed religious freedom, reestablished tribal-government
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Mary Bethune
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helped make disissions about racial issues under roosevelt
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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
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federal regional planning agency established to promote conversation, produce electric power and encourage
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John Collier
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commissioner of Indian Affairs 1933. reformer and social worker
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Lemke
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agriculture, north dakota
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Townsend
Definition
everyone over 60 gets a government handout
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Coughlin
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catholic priest on radio
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Long
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governor and senator from louisiana. quality services if vote for me
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Supreme Court Packing
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appoint new justices
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Keynes
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British economist made roosevelt increase spending
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Fascism
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government subsricing to philosophy of dictatorship
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hitler
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german
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mussolini
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italian leader
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franco
Definition
led uprising in spain
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appeasement
Definition
associated with muinich
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isolationism
Definition
american foreign policy
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Henry Ford
Definition
entrepreneur who symbolized modern America to the world with automobile factory
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Assemply Line
Definition
moving workbench to combine into a finished product
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Oligopoly
Definition
label for industry that is controlled by a few large companies
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Open Shop
Definition
arrangement in which a companyis not limited to union
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yellow dog contract
Definition
employment agreement in which an employee is not allowed to join a union
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welfare capitalism
Definition
paternalistic system of labor relations emphasizing management respoinsibility for employee will being
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