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Saved a lot of time and effort and made it much easier in a manufacturing company also helping save money
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African Americans fled to the North looking for jobs, freedom & economic opportunities
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Nationwide constitutional ban production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages
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Women are allowed to vote
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Most popular Black nationalist leader of the early-20th century, and founder of the United Negro Improvement Association
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African-American poet, novelist, and playwright and is considered one of America's greatest poets (most famous poem, Harlem (Dream Deferred)
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African-American writer, best known for the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God & one of the leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance
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fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior
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Revival of Christian faith- disagreed with the teaching of Darwin's evolution in school- caused KKK- believed in the LITERAL translation of the Bible
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Believed in Scope's Monkey trial (Darwin's evolution theory) and teaching it in schools
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Most popular trumpet player during the Harlem Renaissance and "advocate" of the Jazz Age
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Increased use of oil and electricity increased economic growth- by 1930, oil accounts for 23% of U.S. energy
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Principals of science that helped manage the growing economic productivity and it helped improve mass production
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Helped businesses and companies sell their product and helped increase the growth of the economy
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Through 1930's- was an African American cultural (musical, arts, literature) movement centered in around Harlem, NY- Blues, Jazz
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Huge birth control advocate, established American Birth Control League- believed society could not evolve without family planning
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R- Calvin Coolidge (won)
D- John Davis
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(John-Reed Act) Signed by Coolidge- limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota
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President- signed the Indian Citizenship Act, Immigration Act, did not support KKK (succeeded Harding and his policies)
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Took place in Chamonix and Haute-Savoie, France
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Published in April by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Published in October by Ernest Hemingway
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Buster Keaton's comedy classic considered to be the greatest silent film ever made
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First "talking" motion picture by Al Jolson
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D- Alfred Smith
R- Herbert Hoover (Won)
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62 nations agreed "to condemn recourse war for the solution of international controversies, and renounce it as an instrument of national policy"
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Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie premieres, introducing a new animated character
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Worst stock market crash in America- Investors willing to sell shares for pennies on the dollar & holding on to worthless certificates
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Jazz became a popular style of music, brought North by African American musicians, loved by young adults symbolizing "rebellion" to their elders
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The economic crisis and period of low business activity in the u.s. and other countries ending around 1939
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Value of companies were falling while share price continued to rise, people began to panic and sold their shares lower than what they had bought them for
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Great Depression during presidency- Believed in limited role of government and that excessive federal intervention threatened capitalism and individualism (he wanted to help people)
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~Expanded the Federal Farm Board
~Encouraged businesses not to cut wages or lay off workers (to maintain individual purchasing power, but this failed)
~Increased gov involvement in agriculture, federal spending, international trade, immigration and wage and tax policy
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~Federal prison reform: granted rights to prisoners and provided for extensive training of prison employees
~Reorganization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to protect Native Americans from exploitation
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(AKA: Dirty Thirties) Lasting about 6 years, a severe drought came over the Great Plains causing crop failure
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farmers migrate westward in search of farm or factory work after the Dust Bowl drought destroyed their crops and put them out of business- the AAA was placed soon after
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Roosevelt's speech, Relief for people out of work- Recovery for business & the economy as a whole- Reform for American economic institutions
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Repealed the Prohibition
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Boosted agricultural prices by offering government subsidies to farmers to reduce output
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Employed young, single men at federally funded jobs on government lands
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Authorized the Treasury Department to inspect and close banks to to restore public confidence in banks
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Provided money to states to create jobs for the unemployed
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Built and repaired dams and other projects in the Tennessee Valley to create prosperity
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Boost businesses’ profits and workers’ wages by establishing industry-by-industry codes that set prices and wages, as well as guaranteeing workers the right to organize into unions
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Guaranteed individuals that money they deposited in a bank would be repaid to them by the federal government
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Allowed important federal government oversight and regulation to the stock market
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Gave federal grants to states that funded salaries for government workers as well as local soup kitchens and other direct-aid to the poor programs
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Guaranteed workers the right to form unions and bargain collectively
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Required workers and employers to contribute (payroll tax) to the Social Security trust fund which makes monthly payments to retirees over the age of 65
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Designed to provide relief for the unemployed by providing jobs and income for millions of Americans
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Mandated a 40-hour work week (with time-and-a-half for overtime), set an hourly minimum wage, and restricted child labor
