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Charpter 21
1920s
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10/23/2010

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Warren Harding
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President 1921 tp 1923 died of an heart attack.
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Calvin Coolige
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President 1923-1929 Brought back Lassie faire against unions
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Communism
Definition
Classless society everyone is equal
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Karl Mark
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Worte a book called "the Communist Manifest" He outlines what and how communism starts
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Red Scare
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Fear that communism was going to spread to America
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Vladimir Lenin
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Communisst leader for Russia at one time
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1919-1920
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Anarchist sent bombs to political homes and to wall street
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Mitchel Palmer
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Mitchell Palmer starts Palmer Raids. Attack forigners.
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Quota System
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Anti- immigration hysteria causes the U.S. to set up quotes for how many people we let in from each region.
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Sacco & Vimzetti
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Anatchist, Immigrants and they are poor. They are accused of killing a man in Massachusetts. They were found guilty just beause they were anarchist
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KKK
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Opposed any one that were not fit their criteria. catholics grug dealer wild women blacks etc.
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Marcus Garvey
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Founded (UNIA) universal Negro Improvement Association. He wants to separate entirley from the whites. He gets deported to Jamaica
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W.E.B. Deboise
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NAACP founded in 1909. He pushes for an anti-lynching law. Believes that top 10 percent of blacks should get and education in order to get respect
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Booker T. Washington
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Believed blacks should start at ground level, do good at clue collar jobs and that will give blacks respect from whites. First Black Man to be allowed in the white house.
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Installment Plan
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Pay in incraments
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Henry Ford
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Figured a way of producing a car by using an assembly line
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Charles Lindenburg
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Flys From the U.S. to england
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Wilbur and Orville Wright
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Built the first air planes
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Causes of the great depression
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International Economic Problems,Domestic Economic problems, Industry&Consumer problems, Stock market problems, Stock market crashes
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Indistrial Economic Problems
(Decline of international commerce)
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U.S. lends Germany more money to help pay war debts, and Germany becomes more in debt because they owe that money back. U.S. raises Tarriffs on Foreign goods and all the other countries follow so no one is buying from other contries and thats bad because industries thrive on sending products to forgin countries.
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Domestic Problems
(problematic Domestic Economic Policies;Distibution of Wealth)
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Pres. Collige tries the trickle down effect but it onl gets to the industries and they use the money to buy more machines the money never gets to the worker.
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Industry and consumer Problems
(Over population and peoples loss of Purchsing Power)
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Large supply of good but low demand for the goods so farmers lost their jobs. Industies expanded too quickly so they ended up closing down. consumers spend more than the can afford and industries are making a lot of money but when the people stop buying because of dent the industries suffer.
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Stock Market
(Faulty System)
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Major problems: buyinh on margin, speculation, watered down stock, and investment pools
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Stock markey Crashes
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24th stock market goes down because people were taking thier money out. and on october 29, 1929 stock markeyt completly crashes and is worth nothing. peple lost millions of dollars. banks close up and almost half of U.S. banks are gone all the mony people save was gone also.
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