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| Executive Branch during the 1920s |
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Presidents appointed cabinet officers who favored business in policies
vetoed bills to help farmers keep consumer spending low
Coolidge was devoted to lasseiz-faire
kept government and big business separate |
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| Judicial Branch during the 1920s |
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Supreme Court ruled in favor of businesses (protected them and private property)
Limited organized labor and prevented strikes
got rid of minimum wage and child labor laws |
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| Legislative Branch during the 1920s |
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used lobbyists to promote business interests
pro big business
tax cuts for corporations and elite |
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| Why did consumer society expand in the 1920s? |
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people had increased purchasing power because they could buy things on credit
they got shorter work weeks and higher pay, thus creating disposable wages and leisure time |
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| Growth of advertising during the 1920s |
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radio, billboards, etc. encouraged consumers to buy on installment plans
women became the family consumers (house appliances) |
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| Leisure time activities of Americans during the 1920s |
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Music (Jazz Age by blacks)
Art (unique American style)
Movies (sound/color/comedies)
Sports (radio mad it easy/ heroes)
Speakeasies (underground way of getting alcohol, flappers there) |
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| Fundamentalism and Prohibition |
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Fundamentalists had a literal interpretation of the Bible, so they had a problem w/ drinking and flappers
entertainment had become more important than the law
FDR repealed Prohibition with the 21st |
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modernists won (those who taught evolution)
Fundamentalists were too extreme that we thought it was illogical |
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group of writers and artists who rejected the rest of society
criticized the overemphasis of money
said it made us materialistic |
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African Americans rejected white society and embraced their own
leaders such as Garvey
KKK rose and spread past just hatred of blacks, but also anti-Semitic, Catholic, and (SE Europe) immigrant
executive branch (Harding) tries to do something, but racism is everywhere
Harding is anti-lynching (main form) |
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anti-foreign born people
KKK becomes nativist
set up quota system to limit immigrations to 800,000/year from South and Eastern Europe
National Origins Act of 1929 set more quotas, but left out Canada and Mexico |
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| Weaknesses causing the Crash and Depression |
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Definition
overproduction, then underproduction with quotas and less immigrants
Farm prices down, unemployment up
didn't research in agriculture
Credit--can't afford what we're buying
Maldistribution of wealth-bigger gap between rich and poor
Speculation |
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| Hoover's response to Black Thursday and Black Tuesday |
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Definition
said we were fine
agreed with Andrew Mellon, who said that boom and bust cycles were normal
wanted voluntary cooperation from businesses-said if they can't be paid wages, give them stocks
lowered taxes on wealthy and corporations, but not the masses
wealthy aren't dumping $ into the economy |
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