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US History 1920s New Era
Culture in the 1920s
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Undergraduate 1
11/01/2012

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welfare capitalism
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employers give workers paid vacations, shorter work weeks, allowed to have unions
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AFL Union new leader after Gomper dies
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William Green, who was not concerned with unkilled workers
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open shop
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businesses who wanted workers who weren't in unions.
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pink collar jobs
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women working in jobs like secretary, salesclerk, telephone operators
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
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Union for blacks. A. Philip Randolph leader
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Issei
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Japanese immigrants direct from Japan
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Nisei
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Japanese born in America
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Parity
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Setting farm prices so farmers get profit
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McNary Haugen Bill
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bill in Congress to set parity prices for farmers. President vetoed twice
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Consumerism
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buy for pleasure and need
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Radio Act
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Federal act to regular airwaves
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Behavioralism
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study behavior and address symptoms. Opposite of Freud and Lang
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Freud & Lang
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must study subconscious to treat mental illness
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Flappers
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women who felt free to smoke, drink and party
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Wets & drys
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people against prohibition (outlaw alcohol) and those for it
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National origins Act
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banned East Asians & Europeans so they wouldn't be more than 2% of population
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1921 immigration law
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No immigrants from one country could be more than 3% of nation's population
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Klaverns
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local KKK units
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The Scope trial
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trial for teacher who delibertly taught evolution and won his court case
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Presidents for 12 years after 1921
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Republican
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Associationalism
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organizations for businessmen of same type of business
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porcupine
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Soviet Union character to promote communism in response to Mickey Mouse from Disney
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First radio station
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KDKA Pittsburgh
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Boosters & Publicists
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salesmen and advertisers to promote consumer products
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Genetics studies of this by Austrian Monk
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Fruit Flies
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This made farm prices decrease too much
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new technology like tractors and fertilizers to grow many crops at same time. Grew more than needed
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Harlem Renaissance
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Celebrated identity of blacks
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Scandal where baseball players lost world series on purpose
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Black Sox Scandal
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Black Tuesday
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Day stock market crashed on Oct. 9, 1929
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buying stocks on margin
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Borrowing from your stock broker on assumption stock prices will increase
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