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| -immigrants put to death; example of the Red Scare after WWI and people's fear of communism |
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| -fear of communism taking root (inspired by Russian Revolution); caused unions to be viewed as communism and hurt workers; people started fearing immigrants |
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| -blacks move north from farms; get better pay; racial tensions in cities (mostly over jobs) |
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| -political view where laws, regulations, and other enforcements were put into place; prohibition; woman's suffrage; child labor laws, etc. |
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| -Albert Fall (Harding's sec. of interior) took bribes to give oil leases to friends; went to prison |
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| -amount of goods produced each hour; benefitted by assembly lines, more machinery in factories, etc. |
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| -large public companies took over, replacing small private ones; oligopolies occured |
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| -businesses became bureucratic (CEOs, Chairmen, CFOs, department heads, etc.); special schools opened to train managers |
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| - used entitlements to prevent unions (healthcare, pensions, insurance, etc.) |
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| -studying the most effective way to get work done and then implementing it (basically R&D for labor); met opposition since it sounds so silly, but later adopted by most businesses; CREDITED TO FREDERICK TAYLOR |
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| -a women could be a feminist and stand for equal rights, but could be pretty and girly at the same time (a more moderate version of the full-fledged lesbian neo-feminism) |
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| -did away with Victorian image of women; young, expensive, more manly (wrapped breasts and short hair), live fast, die young attitude; embodied jazz age (in a way) |
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| Ford car produced via assembly lines; manufactured quickly, so it cost less |
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| -companies needed to convince people to by their products; predominantly came about because of radio; women held many advertising jobs; INTENSE work |
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| Jazz: Duke Ellington and Louie Armstrong |
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| -helped create a culture image for blacks in music; white appreciation of jazz helped to bridge the racial gap in society |
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| -poster girl for the flapper image; actress; talked about heavily in the media (like an early Marilyn Monroe); gave women the idea that it's ok to be pretty |
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| -rags to riches boxer; a symbol for people to stand behind, celebrity athlete |
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| -black writer/satirist; contributed to the cultural spirit of the harlem renaissance |
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| -wrote The Great Gatsby, which was a novel that portrayed the rich party families of the time |
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| -blacks got their own culture; art, music, theater, writing, etc. |
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| -started back to africa movement; got deported |
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| -black poet; wrote about current events; had a rhythm and jazz element to his writing |
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| -wanted a white protestant america; REASONS: great migration, red scare, and nationalism of WWI |
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| -limited amount of immigrants to America to 2% of the people from that country living in America as of 1890 |
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| -nonlabor jobs and deskjobs; more of these jobs due to the size of corporations |
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| -big bootlegger in Chicago (The Untouchables rules!!!!) |
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| Civilian Conservation Corps |
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| -government program that put the unemployed to work on facilities in public parks |
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| National Recovery Administration |
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| -allowed businesses that followed NIRA standards to mark themselves with an NRA seal; told people to boycott non-NRA products |
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| -businesses leaders sat down and organized industry standards (wages, work hours, etc.); workers allowed to unionize and collectively bargain; shorter hours led to two million more jobs |
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| Agricultural Adjustment Administration |
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| -farmers subsidised to produce less, which would lead to increase in price; seen as bad since food was destroyed; FERA authorized to buy food that would be destroyed |
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| Southern Tenant Farmers' Union |
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| -subsidies were given to landlords, not farmers; landlords evicted farmers who formed union; STFU wanted money to be paid to farmers |
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