American History- Chapter 21
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Terms | Definitions |
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 a) government owned all land and property. b) a single political party controlled the government. c) the needs of the country always took priority over the rights of the individuals. | Communism was set up in Russia by Lenin. The principles of communism are: |
| Warren G. Harding; "Return to Normalcy" | ____ was a republican president after WWI. He was very conservative and favored big business. ____ was his campaign promise. |
| Red Scare | ____-an intense fear of communism and other politically radical ideas. |
| Palmer's Raids; Attourney General | ____- Palmer was ____ of the U.S. and believed that radicals were conspiring to overthrow the government. |
| Saccot and Venzetti | ____- anarchists who were Italian immigrants who were convicted of murder and robbery even though there was no real evidence agaisnt them. |
| Boston Police Strike; Calvin Coolidge | ____- took place in Boston and the officers were fired by the governor of Massachusetts ____. |
| Steel and Coal Strikes; United Mine Workers of America | ____- the steel strike was against the U.S. Steel Corporation. It failed. The coal strike was led by the ____ and it was successful. |
| Warren G. Harding; Calvin Coolidge; Herbert Hoover | There were three republican presidents after WWI who were all conservative and favored big business. They were ____, ____, and ____. |
| Andrew Mellen | ____ was Sec. of Treasury under Coolidge who shaped the economic patterns of the 1920's. He was one of the richest men in the nation. |
| Isolationism | ____- avoiding political or economic alliances with foreign countries. |
| Disarmament | ____- a program where the nations of the world would give up their weapons. |
| Fordney-McCumber Tariff | The ____ was a protective tariff during Harding's administration which raised import taxes to historically high levels. |
| Dawes Plan | ____- plan to set up a payment schedule by the Germans to the Allies, recognize the German national bank, and to approve a loan to Germany. |
| Nativist | ____ is a movement favoring native-born Americans over immigrants. |
| Quota | ____- numerical limit, imposed on immigrants representing certain ethnic groups or nations |
| National Origins Act | ____- law which reduced the annual quota to 2% of the number of immigrants already in the country based on the 1910 census. |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | ____- shut down immigration from China |
| Teapot Dome Scandal; California; Wyoming | ____- Sec. of Interior, Albert B. Fall, under Harding gave iol-drilling rights to provate companies in Elk Hills, ____ and Teapot Dome, ____. Fall in return got a bribe of $300,000. |
| Calvin Coolidge; Laissez-Faire | ____ was president after Harding. ____ was his chief policy and he believed the chief business of the American people was business. |
| 1924; Robert LaFollete; John Davis | In the election of ____, Coolidge defeated the progressive ____ and the democrat ____. |
| Laissez-Faire | ____- hands off government policy. Lowered income tax and inheritance tax rates and apporved higher tariffs that benefitted domestic manufacturing. |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | ____- a treaty among 60 nations suggested by France and the U.S. which outlawed war. The problem was that there was no way to enforce the treaty. |
| Alfred E. Smith | The Election of 1928- Hoover ran as the Republican against the Democrat _____ of New York. He was the 1st Catholic to run for president. He was agains Prohibition. |
| A & W Root Beer | ____- the first food chain in America. |
| Consumer economy | ____ is one that depends on a large amount of spending by consumers. Increased spending equals larger profits for businesses which means higher wages and more spending. |
| Installment Plan | ____- customers make partial payments at set intervals over a period of time until the entire debt is paid for. |
| Gross National Product | ____- total value of goods and services a country produces annually. |
| Charles and Frank Duryea; Springfield, Massachusetts | ____- 1st to develop a marketable car in the U.S. They were from ____. |
| $490; $5; horseless carriage(quadricycle) $390; Model A | Model T's cost ____ per car. A worker in the factories made ____ a day. It was called the ____. The price was reduced to ____ per vehicle. The common people could now afford a car. The ____ replaced the Model T. |
| Assembly Line | ____- manufacturing process in which each worker does a specialized task in the construction of the final product. |
| Welfare Capitalism | ____- owners way to control unions. They raised wages and provided paid vacations, health plans, and recreational programs. They were called the company unions. |
| Speculation | ____- the practice of making high-risk investments in hopes of getting a high return. This was a get rich quick attitude. |
| Buying on Margin | ____- allows investors to purchase a stock for only a fraction of its price and borrow the rest of the money. The broker could charge high interest rates and could demand payment of the loan at any time. |
| Henry Ford; Dearborn Independent; Greenfield Village | ____ used the assemly line in manufacturing cars. He owned a newspaper called the ____. In his early days he was a farmer and created the ____ which was a museum. |
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