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A. mitchell Palmer: Attorney General who rounded up many suspects who were thought to be un-American and socialistic; he helped to increase the Red Scare; he was nicknamed the "Fighting Quaker" until a bomb destroyed his home; he then had a nervous breakdown and became known as the "Quaking Fighter."
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andrew mellon: the Secretary of the Treasury during the Harding Administration. He felt it was best to invest in tax-exempt securities rather than in factories that provided prosperous payrolls. He believed in trickle down economics. (Hamiltonian economics)
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bonus expenditionary force: 1932 15000 war veterans without jobs marched into washington dc to lobby for a proposed bill that would grant the $2.4 billion assurance immediately instead of waiting the 20 years. They collected in the city, bamping on vacant lots or buildings and were referred to as insurrectionist by Hoover who refused to meet with them. Then he ordered that they be forced out by armed troops
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buying "on margin": Purching stock with a little money down with the promise of paying the balance at sometime in the future
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charles lindbergh: an American aviator, engineer , and Pulitzer Prize winner. He was famous for flying solo across the Atlantic, paving the way for future aviational development.
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dawes plan: A plan to revive the German economy, the United States loans Germany money which then can pay reparations to England and France, who can then pay back their loans from the U.S. This circular flow of money was a success.
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fordney-mccumber tariff: This tariff rose the rates on imported goods in the hopes that domestic manufacturing would prosper. This prevented foreign trade, which hampered the economy since Europe could not pay its debts if it could not trade.
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hawley-smoot tariff: (HH) 1930 , charged a high tax for imports thereby leading to less trade between America and foreign countries along with some economic retaliatio, HIGHEST EVER
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henry ford: 1863-1947. American businessman, founder of Ford Motor Company, father of modern assembly lines, and inventor credited with 161 patents.
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Immigration Quotas: Emergency Quota Act of 21 cut European migration Roman Cath, Jews, Japanese (GA - anger)
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john dewey: He was a philosopher who believed in "learning by doing" which formed the foundation of progressive education. He believed that the teachers' goal should be "education for life and that the workbench is just as important as the blackboard."
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kellog-briand pact: Agreement signed in 1928 in which nations agreed not to pose the threat of war against one another
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KKK: Southern society formed in 1866 to prevent freed men and women from exercising their rights and to help whites regain power; revised in the 1920's to terrorize foreigners, Catholics, Jews, etc.,
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marcus garvey: Many poor urban blacks turned to him. He was head of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and he urged black economic cooperation and founded a chain of UNIA grocery stores and other business
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margaret sanger: she organized a birth-control movement which openly championed the use of contraceptives in the 1920's.
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reconstruction finance corporation: RFC was an independant agency of the United States government. It granted over 2 billion dollars to the local and state governments. It was charted under the Herbert Hoover administration.
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scopes trial: a highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school
EX. Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow; Scopes was convicted but the verdict was later
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stimson doctrine: 1932, Hoover's Secretary of State said the US would not recognize territorial changes resulting from Japan's invasion of Manchuria
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teapot dome: a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921 NOUN
EX. became symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration
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the jazz singer: 1927 - The first movie with sound; this "talkie" was about the life of famous jazz singer; Al Jolson.
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Volstead Act: The Act specified that "no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, furnish or possess any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act." It did not specifically prohibit the purchase or use of intoxicating liquors
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warren g harding: Pres.1921 laissez-faire, little regard for gov't or presidency. "return to normalcy" after Wilson + his progressive ideals. Office became corrupt: allowed drinking in prohibition, had an affair, surrounded himself w/ cronies (used office for private gain). Ex) Sec. of Interior leased gov't land w/ oil for $500,000 and took money himself. Died after 3 years in office, VP: Coolidge took over
