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| Election of 1920: Issues, Candidates |
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Main issue: league of nations
Candidates: Harding, Coolidge |
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| we loaned money to germany, they loaned money to france, etc. |
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| washington conference: treaties-issues/outcome |
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-to settle or stop naval arms race
-4 power treaty-relieve tension with japan
-9 power treaty |
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| good effort to outlaw war, but didn't work |
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| harding's cabinet members |
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-albert fall-teapot dome scandal
-andrew mellon
-herbert hoover
-william howard taft |
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| kkk-anti immigration act-limited the amount of immigrants living in US to 3% |
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-accused of murder after robbery
-didn't get fair trial because they were immigrants
-they were executed |
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| -african americans migrated to the northern cities-music, art, poetry-they gained pride |
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| jazz musician during harlem renaissance |
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| women's new roles/freedoms |
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-worked more outside home after war
-viewed more equally to men- were allowed to go out, and drink in public |
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| temperance movement/prohibition |
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for it: more rural, southerners supported it-they were religious, middle class, had various US generations before them
against it: urban dwellers, more of the culture of immigrants |
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-Mob boss-made money bootlegging (illegal alcohol industry)
-eventually arrested for tax evation
-died in prison from syphilis |
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| -flew plane from ny to paris successfully |
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| -changed sports in american culture-made them popular-yankees stadium was built because of him |
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| -found guilty of teaching evolution in his class |
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-stock market crash
-over production and underconsumption
-WWI
-over expantion of credit or excessive debt
-high tariffs |
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| election of 1924: candidates/parties/supporters/platforms |
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candidates: coolidge (republican), Davis (democrat), lafollet (progressive)
supporters: progressives-farmers, unions. democrats-kkk. |
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republican: herbert hoover (self-made millionaire)
Democrat: Al Smith (dem was supported in the south-he was from the north and catholic-opposite) |
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-atourney general-chief legal officer of US
-suspected of selling illegal pardons, and illegal liquor permits |
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| relations with latin america |
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| to reduce intervention in latin america, which lead to the good neighboor policy under roosevelt |
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set up as a gov't agency-to buy surplus of farmgoods
-result-drove price of farm goods down even further |
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-sold their possesions
-breadlines and soup kitchens-organized by religious groups, NOT THE GOVERNMENT |
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| veterans marched through washington demanding bonus they were promised to recieve in 1940s-they wanted it earlier |
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| shanty town-community where homeless people live |
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| andrew mellon's tax policy |
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-it widened the gap between the rich and the poor
-lead to uneven distribution of wealth
-lead to great boom and eventually great bust of the stock market
-reduced foreign markets |
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| lead to reduction of foreign markets (couldn't sell things abroad) |
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| made the depression even worse |
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| japanese got mad because US refused to recognize their new territory |
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| gov't stored oil in case supply ran out so they could fuel the military-albert fall sold it for big business and got arrested |
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| reconstruction finance co. |
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| problems facing farmers in the 1920s |
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-surplus (overproduction)
-farmers looked unsuccessfully to the government
-tried to help themselves |
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| hoover policy on government intervention |
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-people should make their own money
-did not enforce anti-trust laws
-for most believed government should not get involved, later changed his mind for certain cases |
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