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The Roaring 20's
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Palmer Raids
The Palmer Raids were attempts from the US Department of Justice to arrest radical leftists, especially anarchist. More than 500 foriegn citizens were arrested. Palmers attempts were frustrated by the US Department of Labor. The Palmer Raids occured in the Red Scare. -
Emergency Quota Act
Also known as the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921, restricted immigration into the US. The Act restricted the number of immigrants admitted from any country yearly to 3% of the number of residents from that same country living in the United States as of the U.S. Census of 1910. An excuse given was that America wanted to keep their culture. -
Washington Naval Conference
Secretary of state Charles Evans Hughes initiated talks on naval disarmament, hoping to stabilize the size of the US Navy relative to that of other powers and to resolve conflicts in the Pacific. Representatives to the Conference came from Belgium, China, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and Portugal. -
Fordney-McCumber Tarriff
Fordney-McCumber raised taxes in order to protect factories and farms. Congress displayed a pro-business attitude in passing the ad valorem tariff and in promoting foreign trade through providing huge loans to Europe, which in turn bought more American goods. The tariff law raised the American ad valorem tariff rate to an average of about 38.5% for dutiable imports and an average of 14% overall. This was named after Joseph Fordney and Porter McCumber. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome and two other locations to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. In 1922 and 1923, the leases became the subject of a sensational investigation by Senator Thomas J. Walsh. Fall was later convicted of accepting bribes from the oil companies. -
National Origins Act
In 1924 Congress passed a discriminatory immigration law that restricted the immigration of Southern and Eastern Europeans and practically excluded Asians and other nonwhites from entry into the United States. This act instituted admission quotas by using the 1890 census to determine the population of a particular nationality group; the government then only allowed 2 percent of that population into the nation. -
Scopes Trial
Conservative fundamentalist Protestants led by William Bryan had been pushing for the elimination of evolution for high school curricula. Tennessee passed legislation prohibiting the teaching of evolution in 1925. American Civil Liberties Union was eager to challenge the law, and found a biology teacher, John Scopes, who was willing to break the law to create a test case. Scopes was found guilty in this trial. -
Sacco and Venzetti Trial
Sacco and Vazetti were convicted in 1921 in a Massachusetts court of committing robbery and murder. Liberals protested the two men were innocent and they had been sentenced to death simply because they were poor Italians and anarchists. After six years of appeals and national and international debates over the fairness of their trial, they were executed in 1927. -
Hoover Elected President
Election of 1928- Herbert Hoover campaigned against Alfred Smith, a Democrat. Smith was a Roman Catholic and appealed to many immigrants. Republicans boasted of "Coolidge Prosperity" and Hoover won in a landslide. -
Stock Market Crashes
Was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout.[1] The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries[2] and did not end in the United States until the onset of American mobilization for World War II at the end of 1941.
