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Wilson
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Birth of a Nation
highly racist full length film -
18th Amendment
guiz drinkin iz bad for u leik totes stahp / Prohibition of alcohol / Volstead Act of 1919 enforced it because having written down on one piece of paper obviously wasn't enough -
Seattle General Strike
All unions in Seattle and 65000 additional workers including the AFL and IWW demanded higher pay for shipyard workers / Mayor Ole Hanson believed it to be a Bolshevist uprising and called for federal troops -
Palmer Raids
wave of bombings made the theat of radicals in US appear real / 30 mail bombs / Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer -
Boston Police Strike
70% of Boston's policemen went on strike seeking the moolah / Gov Calvin Coolidge called the Nat'l Guard because public safety should not be at risk -
Great Steel Strike
AFL attemted to organize the steel industry / strike was portrayed as a communist movement so all the strikers looked like communistic a-holes -
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Harding
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Immigration Act
Ended open immigration with a limit and quota system -
Sacco and Vanzetti Case
Italian anarchists and athiests who dodged WW1 draft were convicted of killing 2 peeps in a robbery in Massachusetts -
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Coolidge
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National Origins Act
reduced immigration by a tinkly wee bit because the 1921 Immigration Act was thought of as weak -
Scopes Trial
Fundamentalists challenged Darwinism / High school bio teacher got in troubles for teaching evolution / wtf come on guys -
1st Solo Flight across the Atlantic
Charles Lindbergh -
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Hoover
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Agricultural Marketing Act
designed to help farmers help themselves -
The Great Crash
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Highest peace-time barrier in USA history / increased from 38.5% to 60% / upset foreign coutries -
5,761 total banks closed
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Bonus Army troubles
14,000 unemployed veterans marched on Washington and Hoover had them removed -
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Roosevelt
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Emergency Banking Relief Act
Gave the Treasury Department the power to open sound banks after ten days and to merge or liquidate unsound ones -
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100 Days
FDR experimented to find what works -
Civilian Conservation Corps
CCC / employed 2.75 million young men in outdoor gov't camps for outdoor projects -
Banking Crisis
total of 10,951 failed banks -
Agriculture Adjustment Administration
AAA / attempted to eliminate low prices by paying farmers to reduce crop acreage -
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
FERA / gave $3 billion to states for dole payments or wages on work projects -
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA / intended to reform the power monoply of utility companies by building hydroelectric power plants in TN valley -
Home Onders Loan Coporation
HOLC / refinanced mortgages on about 1 million non-farm at low interest rates -
National Industrial Recovery Administration
NIRA / biggest attempt to get US industry back on track / Section 7(a) workers were formally guaranteed the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing / Yellow Dog contracts were forbidden -
Glass-Steagull Banking Reform Act
Created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) so that individual deposits of up to $5,000 were federally insured -
Public Works Administration
PWA / created by NIRA / granted money to the state and local gov't to provide wages for public projects -
21st Amendment
repeal of prohibition -
Federal Housing Administration
FHA / spurred the building industry with small loans to homeowners -
Securities and Exchange Commission
SEC / designed to protect the public against fraud, deception, and inside manipulation of the stock market -
Butler vs US
court ruled regulatory taxation provisions of the AAA as unconstitutional -
Works Progress Administration
WPA / employed nearly 9 million people for public projects -
Rural Electrification Administration
REA / provided loans and WPA labor to electric cooperatives to build electric lines to rural areas not served by private companies -
Schechter vs US
court ruled NRA unconstitutional -
Wagner Act
Reasserted the right of labor to engage in self-organization and to bargain collectively through representatives -
Social Security Act
Provided old-age pensions for retired workers / provided federal-state unemployment insurance -
Judiciary Reorganization Bill
attempt by FDR to remove old conservatice justices -
Fair Labor Standards Act
Set miniumum wage and 40-hour week